Fordingbridge 8th Annual Charity Model Railway Exhibition

8th Annual Charity Model Railway Exhibition

When? 12th April 2025 from 1030 until 1630
Where? Avonway Community Centre Fordingbridge SP6 1JF

You can expect to see 20 layouts in N, 00 and O gauges (overleaf), Railway books, pictures and jigsaw stall Railway film show “Railway Café” – bacon rolls and homemade cake Model engineering and trade stands.

Adults £7
Children (6-16) £1
Family £14

Where does the money go? We don’t shake buckets after disasters, we fundraise before they happen. Proceeds will again go to the Water Survival Box Charity run by Rotary Chelwood Bridge who will attend to show the boxes.

What it’s all for

Once again, we will be raising money for Water Survival Boxes. Our Rotary Club philosophy is to raise money in advance of need rather than collect it by shaking buckets of money, which almost always arrives too late. 2023 saw more than its share of disasters, and there was apparently no limit to the need for WS boxes. Amongst other places, boxes went to the flooding and cholera outbreak in Somalia, the Turkey/Syria earthquake, disasters and conflict in Sudan, two consignments to the Moroccan earthquake and more boxes to Ukraine. Members of the Rotary Club of Fordingbridge went to Midsomer Norton to pack boxes and to hand over the money collected from the 2023 Model Railway Exhibition. Our friends from the Rotary Club of Chelwood Bridge will be in attendance to show visitors the Water Survival Boxes they supply.