Membership

The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Preservation Society (LYRPS) welcomes new members.  The Society's main purpose is to act as a fundraising body for the Trust in the form of membership subscriptions and voluntary donations.

The LYRPS is an 'unincorporated body' and cannot claim Gift Aid or most grant aid (such as the Heritage Lottery Fund), which the Trust can. Since Gift Aid changed in 2001 most LYRPS members have added donations to their membership subscriptions with an instruction for them to be transferred to the Trust, enabling the Trust to claim Gift Aid on the donation. Click here for more information on Gift Aid.
 

Membership of the LYRPS includes:

• Hands on restoration experience - No special expertise or previous experience required.

• Illustrated ON TRUST magazine and Newsletters.

• Admission to sites where the collection may be visiting.

• Social outings.

• The right to attend and to vote at the Society's Annual Meeting.

The table below lists current membership rates for 2011:

† Reduced rate applies to anyone regarded as ‘unwaged',  for example students, retired or unemployed.

To become a member, please complete the relevant part of part of the membership/donation form.

Note, the membership/donation form is in PDF format and requires the Adobe Acrobat reader which can be downloaded from the Adobe web site.