Oliver Edwards
Oliver Edwards is a specialist in the Industrial, Maritime and Transport sector of the heritage and culture industries with experience in working on marketing, communications, business development and project management.
Driven by a dual interest in our industrial past and a desire to help organisations to become more resilient, Oliver has completed a number of significant assignments. These include raising £169,400 for the Embsay & Bolton Abbey Railway through successful grant bidding, coordinating a campaign for the Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway which generated over £140,000 in donations and creating interpretive materials for a number of museums.
In late 2020, Oliver joined The Lab strand of the Digital Heritage Lab as a Digital Skills Mentor, nurturing digital development with a number of cultural bodies including Brecon Heritage & Culture Network, Skylark IX Recovery Trust and Princess Royal Class Locomotive Trust (PRCLT) .
In 2021, Oliver won a national Heritage Railway Association award.
Resources by Oliver Edwards
Established over 25 years ago, the Princess Royal Class Locomotive Trust (PRCLT) care for some of the most prized cultural assets of the glory days of steam rail travel as operators of West Shed Museum in Swanwick, Derbyshire. In this case study Oliver Edwards reflects on how this small heritage organisation has improved digital engagement with its small objects online collection to help the organisation tell its story.
