Donate

Your donation is hugely appreciated, and enables the SS Great Britain Trust to:

▪️ Conserve the ship; prevent corrosion of the iconic iron hull and make her available for future generations.

▪️ Run exciting and accessible museums and education programmes, which inspire people with innovation and engineering. These include the historic dockyard, ship and museum site in Bristol as well as education programmes like the Future Brunels.

▪️ Care for and grow the nationally significant Brunel Collection within the Brunel Institute.

Donations can be made online via the form below, or you can even make a donation via text – just text BRUNEL to 70450 for a one-off donation of £5 (plus standard rate message charge).

⚓ Thank you for your support.

For further information, please contact our friendly Development Team on 01174 623 125 or development@ssgreatbritain.org.

If you have any comments or complaints about our fundraising procedures, please refer to our Comments and Complaints Policy.

Donate to our Summer Appeal ☀️

Help secure the SS Great Britain for the future!
Summer Appeal 2025
Two children are sat at a table playing with wooden toys and smiling.

Some 20,000 school children visit us each year. The Golden Ticket Programme provides free visits for schools in Bristol that would otherwise not be able to visit.

There are over 6,500 maritime books, 7,300 ship plans, and objects relating to the SS Great Britain, housed in the Brunel Institute which is free to access.

 A large group of children in Victorian clothes are standing in the dockyard next to the ship waving union jack flags.

The SS Great Britain Trust has won more than 50 awards including ‘Best UK & Ireland Tourism Project’ & ‘Europe’s Most Welcoming Museum’.

The Future Brunels Programme aims to inspire the next generation of Brunels by introducing them to new ideas relating to science, technology, engineering & maths.