Welcome to our Charity
Welcome to Nottingham Heritage Vehicles Charity, an East Midland based heritage transport charity whose aim is to preserve and restore local transport heritage for future generations.
NHVC is a registered Educational Transport Charity with a unique collection of vehicles from Nottingham & surrounding areas. With the collection spanning vehicles representative of the early 1900s to the only surviving Nottingham Bendybus of 2002, from half cab rear platform vehicles to the first of Trent Buses low floor minibuses. We have examples of vehicles depicting generations of travel and the social economic history of our local area.
NHVC's "home" is the former Trent Motor Traction bus depot in Hucknall, a 1936 art deco style building - the fitting location for a transport charity with a fleet of vintage buses. We hope over the next 3 years to undertake necessary work on the building, restoring it to its former glory to possibly enable us to move from using it simply as a bus garage to one day developing a professional period style heritage visitor centre under the Nottingham Bus Museum banner. Pipe dreaming at present but we are well on our way with a full replacement of the electrical installation taking place at present.
As we are undertaking so much work and have so much more to do, we are throwing our doors open occasionally to host community days for interested members of the public to join us for a look around and perhaps sample a vintage bus ride. Pure nostalgia but it may just get you onboard as a valued helper along with many others from the local community. The Charity has no paid staff so we operate 100% upon the efforts of people like you. Working members don't have to become friends of the charity through our support group so don't let that put you off. However if you wish to receive regular newsletters and be invited on the members days out then this is perhaps for you !
We are always looking to extend our volunteer numbers. Theres something for everyone. Please have a good look around our site and once you decide you would like to get involved please don't hesitate to contact us via the contact link at the bottom of the page
NHVC is a registered Educational Transport Charity with a unique collection of vehicles from Nottingham & surrounding areas. With the collection spanning vehicles representative of the early 1900s to the only surviving Nottingham Bendybus of 2002, from half cab rear platform vehicles to the first of Trent Buses low floor minibuses. We have examples of vehicles depicting generations of travel and the social economic history of our local area.
NHVC's "home" is the former Trent Motor Traction bus depot in Hucknall, a 1936 art deco style building - the fitting location for a transport charity with a fleet of vintage buses. We hope over the next 3 years to undertake necessary work on the building, restoring it to its former glory to possibly enable us to move from using it simply as a bus garage to one day developing a professional period style heritage visitor centre under the Nottingham Bus Museum banner. Pipe dreaming at present but we are well on our way with a full replacement of the electrical installation taking place at present.
As we are undertaking so much work and have so much more to do, we are throwing our doors open occasionally to host community days for interested members of the public to join us for a look around and perhaps sample a vintage bus ride. Pure nostalgia but it may just get you onboard as a valued helper along with many others from the local community. The Charity has no paid staff so we operate 100% upon the efforts of people like you. Working members don't have to become friends of the charity through our support group so don't let that put you off. However if you wish to receive regular newsletters and be invited on the members days out then this is perhaps for you !
We are always looking to extend our volunteer numbers. Theres something for everyone. Please have a good look around our site and once you decide you would like to get involved please don't hesitate to contact us via the contact link at the bottom of the page
VOLUNTEERS WANTED
To offer your support through a donation please follow the link below by clicking the donate button
Any donations you wish to make can be gift aided to the charity, which benefits the charity to the sum of 25p in the pound - for further details and to complete a Gift Aid form please click below
If you wish to become a friend of NHVC please follow the link in the navigation bar. Membership allows you to become an active working member, helps to cover our insurance costs for you to work with us and entitles you to discounts and a number of free drinks each year at our open events. We also offer a free members day out. A quarterly newsletter is emailed out to all members - so please keep your contact details upto date !
The Charity is very grateful to the team at Transport Nostalgia for working tirelessly in helping the Charity raise awareness and funds. Although a wholly independent business, Transport Nostalgia offer their support to the Charity by donating an element of their profit on sales towards our projects. We are very grateful for this valued assistance and that of the photographers that allow their images to be used. This generous support extends to maintaining our website and Facebook page, leaving Charity trustees free to deal with all other areas of Charity business. By supporting their efforts you directly support the Charity. 100% of the profit from all trips organised goes directly to the Charity. A link to their website showing the day trips organised for the Charity and to their sales shop, offering a fantastic range of products from photographs to bespoke street names, wall art and cushions is available here.
DIECAST MODELS WANTED
Our supporters at Transport Nostalgia are always looking at ways to assist the charity in fundraising, especially when trustees time is so precious. They are currently looking for EFE and OOC models to resell
If you have a collection, large or small that may be of interest to them, please contact
either Simon or Caroline on 07971105491
Alternatively, message below as they maintain this website on behalf of the Charity.
Our supporters at Transport Nostalgia are always looking at ways to assist the charity in fundraising, especially when trustees time is so precious. They are currently looking for EFE and OOC models to resell
If you have a collection, large or small that may be of interest to them, please contact
either Simon or Caroline on 07971105491
Alternatively, message below as they maintain this website on behalf of the Charity.
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