1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY PAGE 2 2 GLASGOW VINTAGE VEHICLE TRUST (GVVT) PAGE 3 3 INTRODUCTION FROM THE CHAIRMAN PAGE 4 4 VISION PAGE 5 5 DELIVERY OF GVVT ACTIVITIES PAGE 7 6 OFFERINGS, SERVICES, CAPABILITIES PAGE 10 7 MARKET ANALYSIS PAGE 16 8 PROGRESS AGAINST 2013-2018 OBJECTIVES PAGE 19 9 CURRENT CONTECT AND OUTLOOK PAGE 22 10 STRATEGY GOING FORWARD PAGE 24 11 IMPLEMENTATION PLAN PAGE 26 12 FINANCIAL PLAN PAGE 27 13 SUMMARY PAGE 29 14 APPENDICES PAGE 30 The Glasgow Vintage Vehicle Trust is based at Bridgeton Bus Garage in the east end of the city. This document is the Business Plan for the Trust covering the period from 2018 to 2023. It contains details of its future plans of establishing a ‘working museum’ at Bridgeton Bus Garage and how it will seek to fulfil its aims and objectives. Travel and activities associated with it are vital parts of our social heritage and life in Glasgow and Scotland in general. Many memories are evoked by vehicles in the collection at Bridgeton Bus Garage of bus trips in times past when going to school, work or visiting relatives. People remember the bus service they were on or the colours of the vehicles or other sights and sounds. The vehicles housed at Bridgeton Bus Garage (as well as the building itself) have the ability to bring the past back to life for the general public. By doing this, the Trust is making a significant contribution to preserving our heritage. This Business Plan is about how the Glasgow Vintage Vehicle Trust can fulfil its potential and continue to contribute to society in a range of ways which can be entertaining, cultural, educational and of historic value. The primary aims and objectives of the Glasgow Vintage Vehicle Trust (GVVT) are to: • Promote the restoration, preservation and use of historic passenger carrying and commercial vehicles. • Become a centre of excellence for vehicle restoration, showcasing the talent of its members and affiliates. • Advance education for public benefit, providing a ‘working museum’ for the display of such vehicles, a first- class attraction, highly rated and valued by its visitors. • Be active in the local community with its varied outreach activities. GVVT is an unincorporated body set up to hold property used solely for charitable purposes in the pursuance of these aims and objectives. Its structures, functions and management arrangements are laid out in its Trust Deed. The Trust Deed is lodged with the Office of the Scottish Charities Regulator (OSCR), the governing body, in line with the Scottish Charities legislation. We have embodied these aims and objectives into this Business Plan and kept them at the heart of the development of the Trust and the activities. We will explain later in this document about how we expect to fulfil these objectives in the short, medium and long term. As Chairman of the Glasgow Vintage Vehicle Trust, I would like to introduce to you our Business Plan for the period starting 2018 and running through to 2023. This is our third Business Plan and I believe represents our most ambitious yet. It is an exciting time for the Trust. We have a busy and ever-expanding programme of events each year. Our visitor numbers are increasing, we are carrying more and more people on our vintage buses and the feedback we receive is extremely positive. We occupy an excellent site in Bridgeton Bus Garage, a place with transport heritage and facilities very well suited to housing and looking after the collection. We have over 120 vehicles with an ever-increasing number of them returning to the road after res- toration, and we have an active community of vehicle owners and other members who volunteer much of their time to the Trust. These are all things that we can feel rightly proud of and show the progress the Trust has made as an organisation since the start of the last Business Plan in 2013. It reflects the hard work and commitment of those involved with the Trust and for that we are extremely grateful. The Business Plan aims to achieve a number of things. The need to improve the building and facilities for Firstly, we share our vision for the future and explain the members to carry out their restoration work and this in some more depth. We then review and to enhance the visitor experience is crucial. At the celebrate the progress we have made in pursuing same time, we would wish to retain the many aspects our goals from the last Business Plan. From there that make us popular today. We see the next five we look at the activities of the Trust, how it functions years (as covered by this Business Plan) as a crucial today and explain why we believe it provides a phase in our development as we look to achieve sound basis for the future. We then reflect on the these goals. context and environment we find ourselves in today. How does the world around us have a bearing on We need to draw on as much support, commitment our plans? What are the risks? Where are the and practical help as we can from our membership, opportunities? And from there we discuss our Board of Trustees, visitors, partners and other key strategy for the future and the plan we propose to stakeholders if we are to continue to make a success achieve our vision. of the Trust and work to deliver on its goals for the future. I am sure you will agree that while this is Our vision for the future of the Trust is a bold one. challenging, the benefits would be many and far- The goals we seek to achieve are very challenging. reaching. But I have every confidence that with the continued dedication and support of our members, visitors and other stakeholders these will be accomplished. Our ambition is to achieve ownership of the Bridgeton Bus Garage site and use that as a springboard to seek further funding for developing into a first-class visitor attraction for Glasgow. Our concept is a ‘working museum’ different from the other museums in the area where the exhibits are just on display. We want visitors to see the vehicles at all stages from the condition in which they arrive, as work progresses during refurbishment and finally as the I trust you will enjoy reading the Business Plan and finished product when they will have the chance to hope that you can assist us in some way in meeting ride on them or see them on the streets. the challenges before us. Steven Booth Chairman, Glasgow Vintage Vehicle Trust Bridgeton Bus Garage is a ‘working museum’. Our The membership and vehicle owners are the vision for the future sees us maintain and develop this lifeblood of GVVT. They offer their time and concept. We envisage giving visitors wider visibility vehicles to a wide variety of events without which of the restoration process along with access to travel we could not have achieved the success we have on our vintage vehicles, creating thereby a first-class had. Going forward, we need to continue to build attraction which is highly rated and valued. and enhance this relationship. We will continue to develop the facilities at the garage available to We are conscious that we cannot remain static as a them and increase the opportunities where they can place to visit. We need to develop our offering to get involved in Trust activities. We will also take visitors by refreshing displays, creating themes and on board the results of a member survey designed marketing them effectively. to elicit members’ views on the operation of the garage as well as feedback from members of the public attending our various events. We need to continue to draw considerably on the We will explore whether the holding of an Operator’s voluntary support offered by our membership for Licence would be beneficial in terms of increased future events. The friendliness and enthusiasm of opportunities for funding as well as widening the our volunteers are vital to the feel of the museum. scope of activities which the Trust can undertake. Our visitors frequently comment on this and it is an aspect we wish to maintain and develop. Our vision for the future sees the Trust continuing to work in partnership with a wide range of We require to significantly improve the infrastructure organisations to pursue its aims and those where it is and facilities at the garage so that they are fit to mutually beneficial to do so with others. We need showcase the collection, carry out vehicle restoration to build on our excellent track record in this area and provide a welcome to the public. This requires a and widen the range of organisations with which significant investment in the existing building to bring we can explore new possibilities. We also wish it up to a standard that best supports our vision. to be active in the local community and reach out The way we believe this is best achieved is through wherever possible. owning the building and seeking funding through a range of routes to bring about the improvements Our vision also extends to being a local employer. needed. We have developed a ‘blueprint’ With our plans to develop the garage as a working document covering the proposed development of the museum and increase the frequency with which we Bridgeton Bus Garage site which is complementary are open, we believe that there will be a need to to this Business Plan. It specifically describes how employ a number of people in a range of roles such we aim to restore and enhance the building and its as museum guides, catering and event promotion.