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Status
Received: on time
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Income
£653.0K
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Spending
£847.8K
Public benefits
The direct benefits which flow from the purpose include: • The conservation and restoration of railway heritage which is of national importance. • Access to this important collection for the general public. • Education in conservation skills and curriculum linked heritage and engineering topics. • Volunteering opportunities which build skills, a
sense of value and community. These benefits are demonstrated through: • Around 22,000 people each year travelling on the steam trains, experiencing heritage in action, the demand for these trains from the public being consistently greater than availability. • The provision of learning opportunities for 22,000 per year by providing interpretation (static and digital) and access to guides both on trains and at the museum. • Recording the Society's recent activities and achievements in our magazine, brochures and website, and combining that with articles of historical interest, often the result of original research and not available elsewhere. • Developing an on-train app which will do the same job using modern technology direct to mobile phones. • Via public meetings and talks to other societies and organisations, we continually visit Ireland's railway history with illustrated talks and film shows of the highest order. The question and answer sessions provide much opportunity for education leading to involvement and participation. Beneficiaries: • The beneficiaries of the Society’s activities would be the general public who travel on our trains or attend our meetings, and our members in receipt of Society information and literature. There are no private benefits other than to our volunteers who get to pursue their hobby. There is no known harm arising from Society activities.
... [more] [less]What your organisation does
• The RPSI preserves, maintains and operates steam locomotives and heritage carriages on the public main line railway network throughout the island of Ireland. • It maintains an engineering base from which it delivers an overhaul and maintenance facility, both for its own purposes and for third parties which may require it. • It holds public
meetings and provides talks to other societies and organisations on the subject of Irish railways. • It delivers training in relevant heritage crafts to its volunteers and employees. • It is developing a working museum to bring the experience of heritage railway engineering and history to the general public.
... [more] [less]The charity’s classifications
- The advancement of education
- The advancement of the arts, culture, heritage or science
Who the charity helps
- General public
How the charity works
- Cross-border/cross-community
- Cultural
- Education/training
- Heritage/historical
