Fordhall Farm - Owned by You
1 farmer, 8000 landlords!

SAVE OUR ROOF!
APPEAL 2009

   Help us to save the Fordhall Community Land Initiatives
most valuable capital asset.

We desperately need your help to put a new roof on the Fordhall Farmhouse. The roof is in urgent need of repair as moisture ingress is now causing serious structural damage. The roof needs to be repaired as soon as possible to ensure that the building will not deteriorate any further and to allow repairs inside to begin.

Fordhall Farmhouse is such a beautiful building and one day we hope to fully restore it to its former glory. Renovating the roof is the first vital step in ensuring the Fordhall Community Land Initiative’s (FCLI) most valuable capital asset remains this way.
 
The farmhouse is also home to Ben, Charlotte and Connie (Ben and Charlotte’s mother) and is an integral part of the farm’s history. Parts of it are over 200 years old and the interior still retains the beauty of bygone ages. The farmhouse has seen so much throughout the years from the birth of Arthur’s mother in the rooms upstairs, to the days in which Fordhall existed as a country club. Let’s not allow it to go to ruins and be spoilt forever. This is a hugely valuable project and worth pulling together for.

The roof project is likely to cost us in the region of £100,000 and with this appeal we hope to raise £25,000 towards that. This seems like a huge challenge, but we know only too well what can be achieved when everyone works together; the farm just wouldn’t have been saved without your inspirational help in 2006. The roof is a project that requires specialist skills, so we cannot ask volunteers to help and therefore the FCLI will have to foot the bill itself.

We are hoping to raise at least £25,000 through fundraising, matched with £75,000 from FCLI’s resources for the roof.  A donation of £30 from you would really help the FCLI to achieve this target although any donation however small (or large!) is fantastic. It soon adds up.

It is important to remember that the farmhouse roof is one part of a much bigger ongoing project to improve the infrastructure at Fordhall. Such as the renovation of the L-shaped barn. These will hopefully be converted into useful spaces including a local food tearoom, a classroom, disabled toilets and offices for use by the FCLI. Your help with the roof fund now will help the FCLI on the first step of this journey.

This is your farm, you own it and and we need your help to get these projects off the ground. Once the roof is repaired other vital renovation work on the house can begin.

 

Jack Tavernor        Charlotte Hollins           Ben Hollins                
Board member and
Chairman of the                                            
Building Sub-Group

P.S. We need to act now. The roof needs to be repaired before the winter. Please support us as generously as possible.

PLEASE DONATE TODAY

FARMHOUSE ROOF APPEAL

 

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A huge thank you must go to everyone who helped ensure that 2008 was such a successful year. We all are looking forward to another exciting year of farming, events and meeting more friends.

We realy hope you are able to visit Fordhall Farm in the near future and see what you have helped to save for everyone to enjoy.

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Fordhall Community Land Initiative
is registered in England and Wales as an Industrial and Provident Society. Reg No. 30030R.
It is registered with Inland Revenue as a Charity Ref no. XR1119
Our Society Rules can be downloaded HERE

Fordhall Farm, Tern Hill Road,
Market Drayton, Shropshire, TF9 3PS
T: 01630 638696 E: project@fordhallfarm.com

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