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East Coast and the East Midlands

Connecting community with nature

Laindon

Laindon connects an urban community with the nature on its doorstep. Through wildlife partnerships, local artwork and community activity, the station gives residents a welcoming place to share pride in their environment and discover nearby green spaces.

Young voices, shared pride

Basildon

Basildon has become a place where young people and local partners can express the town’s identity through creativity. Community artwork gives residents a visible stake in their station and helps thousands of passengers feel the pride and personality of the place.

Connecting people to green spaces

Berney Arms

With no public road access, Berney Arms proves that even the most remote station can create remarkable connections. Reached by rail, boat, foot or bicycle, it opens Norfolk’s marshes, wildlife and railway heritage to explorers from near and far.

Connecting people with care and safety

Leeds City

Leeds City Station connects people with safety, support and opportunity. Through pioneering assistance for vulnerable and neurodivergent passengers, youth engagement and compassionate colleagues, it shows how a major station can make every individual feel seen, welcome and protected.

Scotland

Reconnecting people with opportunity

Kilmarnock

Kilmarnock has transformed redundant railway offices into a thriving Community Village of shops, cafés, meeting spaces and an active-travel hub. Its volunteering and training projects help people facing addiction, poor mental health, loneliness and isolation reconnect with opportunity and one another.

Connecting community through sport

Saltcoats

Saltcoats has transformed unused station space into a fully accessible home for new Shibumi Karate Club and the wider community. The flexible facility connects people through sport, meetings and shared activities, giving residents a welcoming place to participate and belong.

Bringing village life together

Stow

Stow has turned its station into a lively community-focused hub where a volunteer-run pub, live music, sports clubs, karaoke and food nights bring people together. It is a social heart for the village, built around shared experiences.

Growing friendship and community pride

Cardross

Cardross volunteers have turned the station into a vibrant community garden filled with flowers and edible produce. Their care has created more than a beautiful welcome: it has brought neighbours together and built shared pride in the place they call home.

The North West and West Midlands

Connecting people through local stories

Banbury

Banbury celebrates the people who make its community special, bringing their portraits and stories into the station. Alongside local trails, art and accessible improvements, it has created a gateway where the town can see itself and visitors feel invited to explore.

Connecting creativity, enterprise and community

Haltwhistle

Haltwhistle has turned historic station buildings into places where local life can flourish: an education and events space, makers’ market, café and affordable studios. New jobs and support for small businesses make the station a sustainable community hub.

Building confidence and connection

Hindley

Hindley’s award-winning Friends group has made the station a vibrant community hub for volunteers, schools and local organisations. Its partnership with Thrive CIC helps young people and adults with additional needs build skills, confidence and meaningful connections.

Connecting generations through railway heritage

Irlam

Irlam has made its station a place where local history is shared and community life thrives. Tours, school visits and its much-loved café connect generations with the railway’s past while creating new memories and friendships today.

The South

Connecting memory, nature and community

Brookwood

Brookwood has transformed unused railway land into an inclusive garden where railway families and the wider community can remember loved ones, discover shared heritage and connect with nature. Created with more than 30 volunteers, it turns the station’s unique link to Brookwood Cemetery into a lasting place of reflection, belonging and community care.

Growing friendship through nature

South Tottenham

South Tottenham has transformed overlooked station land into a welcoming community garden where children, older people and residents living with dementia can connect with nature and one another. It is a place of belonging, friendship and everyday human connection.

Connecting people across Europe

St Pancras International

St Pancras International brings together historic and modern architecture while connecting Britain directly with destinations across Europe. Its beauty and international reach make every journey feel like the start of something special.

Restoring heritage, rebuilding connection

Bishopstone

Bishopstone’s volunteers have restored an Art Deco station and helped restore connection in the community around it. Daily activities combat loneliness, support wellbeing and give hundreds of local people friendship, purpose and a genuine sense of belonging.

Wales and the West

Connecting volunteers with opportunity

Par

Par is a station where volunteering opens doors. Through gardening, customer service, ticket-office experience and passenger assistance, local people build confidence, skills and independence—creating friendships, pathways to work and a sense that every contribution matters.

Connecting through music and belonging

Crediton

Crediton’s former station buildings now host a popular community café and an inclusive music and arts home. People with learning disabilities and autism travel from across Devon to make music, build friendships and enjoy a space shaped around their needs.

Connecting community through active travel

Yatton

Yatton brings volunteers, a social-enterprise café and a community cycling hub together in one inclusive destination. Adapted cycles and active-travel support help more people build confidence, independence and new connections through sustainable journeys.

Reimagining community through young voices

Haverfordwest

Haverfordwest has brought young people, artists, community groups, public services and the railway together to reimagine the station through art. The project gives young people a meaningful role in shaping a more welcoming gateway and strengthens confidence and connection across the town.