Randy Coldham News Today

AN appeal to raise £25,000 has been launched to help fund the restoration of a historic locomotive.

Arts, culture and heritage organisations in Dorset will share in a funding lifeline of more than £3 million. The funding, from the second stage of the Government’s Culture Recovery Fund, is designed to help organisations recover from the pandemic, start to reopen and continue to serve communities into the future. Performing arts venues including Weymouth Pavilion, Bridports Electric Palace, The Lighthouse in Poole and the Tivoli Theatre in Wimborne will benefit from funding through the...

An appeal has been launched so that work can resume on building a £240,000 shed where carriages at Dorsets heritage railway can be stored and protected from the weather. Swanage Railway volunteers hoped to have the remaining £65,000 raised by the end of June so that the steel structure of the building can be ordered before being delivered to the site and constructed in November. Work on the structure – on the outskirts of Swanage near Herston Halt – began in January last year but ha...

ENTERPRISING members of the Swanage Railway finance team are staging festive ‘Steam and Lights’ trains hamper raffles to raise money for the popular heritage line’s Coronavirus survival appeal fund. The large festive hampers have been put together thanks to kind donations of items and money from Swanage Railway supporters, members of the Swanage and District Chamber of Trade as well as the public – with proceeds from the raffles going to the Swanage Railway’s ‘Save Our Service�...