How to help reunify the GCR

If you’d like to make a one-off donation, there are two ways to do so.

Head to www.gcrailway.co.uk/ unfiy and give online by card. Or, on the same website, download a ‘one-off donation form’ fill it out and send us a cheque through the post. It’s worth saying that the David Clarke Railway Trust is handling the purse strings for the project and as the registered charity supporting the GCR, they can claim Gift Aid on your donations. If you can make the Gift Aid declaration, either electronically or on a form, your gift can have 25% added by the Government at no cost to yourself. On a fundraising drive this size, that can make hundreds of thousands of pounds of difference.

Here’s what we’d really like you to consider; set up a standing order. Our strength is in numbers, not necessarily the numbers on a cheque, but the number of supporters too. We’re asking you to give a minimum of £12 a month, roughly £3 a week, which adds up to a generous contribution in a year, particularly with Gift Aid. Every time the number of standing orders increases, the pace picks up slightly.

The reliable income stream that is created helps us to plan and commission work with confidence that we can pay the bills.

To set up a standing order, head to the website and look for the downloadable form. Fill it in, send it back and we’ll do the rest. One note of housekeeping; we’re doing our best to sort out correspondence and process donations as quickly as possible, but things are taking a little longer than normal and banks seem to be taking longer to implement instructions.