Stratford-upon-Avon Community & Visitor Hub
Organisation: Friends of the Shakespeare Line
Station: Stratford-upon-Avon
The Vision: Provide a multi-functional Community Hub facility, making productive use of a disused room on Platform One

​The Vision:

This project created a multi-purpose community hub in an empty room at the station and the premises provide a base for over eighty volunteers who manage the community gardening and arts for all the railway stations between Birmingham and Stratford-upon-Avon.

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The Hub is also used as a meeting and display unit, fulfilling myriad functions such as:

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• Volunteer Hub

• Visitor Information Point

• Community Arts Gallery

• Meeting & Co Working Venue

The room is also a resource for the Local Rail Passenger Group who can occasionally be found as volunteer hosts on the days when charter trains and their visitors arrive in Stratford-upon-Avon.

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Meetings and appointments will be held in the multi-purpose room to progress community-based actions, schemes and initiatives linked to the railway, the local area and the Shakespeare Line.

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This project has been designed to provide a much-needed railway volunteer facility and is also an important community enhancement to Stratford-upon-Avon station.