Our Wish List...

 

Educational Materials and these may be in any form. These are for use when schools visit Fordhall and include items such as safety scissors and pritstick as well as child friendly paints and large outdoor games (preferably handmade).

Kitchen cupboards and worksurfaces we are currently fitting out the second porta cabin for a volunteer/community kitchen. If you have anything that is in good condition and going spare, please do get in contact.

Flooring for Offices we are looking for lino for our porta cabins to help protect the floor from our muddy feet! The kitchen area which would ideally have vynil is 180cm x 295cm. Please call the farm office if you can help.

Generator of minimum power 6.5KVA

Solar powered wind up radio for volunteers when working out in the field!

Marquee or large gazebo's these are invaluable for events. There are not many safe buildings on the farm at the moment and dry space is always needed when we have an event or guided walks!

Electrical Goods: The porta cabins have move on tremendously since their arrival at Fordhall. We are almost there but our electrician is missing a few vital components - do you have any dual plug sockets, switches, or other elctrical materials that are safe and may be of use to us?

Networking materials: these are requierd to fit our porta cabins onto the Fordhall network, allowing all our volunteers to work efficiently and in partnership. Malcolm Donnely is our volunteer kitting them out. He is looking for

• 1 x wall mounted network cabinet. Min 6U, preferably with glass front door and one fixed shelf. If it comes with any cable management bits, all the better.
• EITHER - Data Cable Trunking min 25mm wide x 16mm deep
• OR - Standard Dado Rail Trunking with three compartments, and including inside and outside corner brackets and joint covers.
• Cat5:
  • Wall Ports- with surface mount black boxes. Single and double
• Front bezels single and double
• Snap-in Cat5e modules

 

Computers:
The following list contains computer system and component upgrades desired for the FCLI office. If you don’t know your computer’s specifications there are two methods you may use to find the information. Find the “My Computer” icon on your desktop and using the right button on your mouse (if configured for right-handed people), select “Properties” and operating system, processor type, and RAM information will be displayed under the “General” tab. Alternatively click on the “Start” button at the bottom left of your screen and select “ Run” then type in the space titled “ Open” the program MSINFO32.EXE and select OK. Operating system, processor type, RAM size, as well as Hard Disk Drive information will be displayed.

Our Computer requirements:

• PC with a processor of not less than 800 MHz (.8 GHz) speed
• Windows XP operating system, Windows 98 SE (second edition) acceptable
• Memory expansion chips (RAM) 512 MB preferred, 256 MB acceptable with PC133 MHz speed preferred, PC100 MHz speed acceptable
• Hard Disk Drive minimum 30 GB or greater preferred, 20 GB acceptable
• CD RW/DVD ROM (RAM preferred)
• Super VGA video/graphics card or on-board adapter
• 2 USB ports (minimum)
• NIC (network adapter card or on-board adapter)
• Keyboard and optical mouse
• 15-17” Monitor, CRT but flat panel is preferred
• Microsoft Office 2000 or later plus documentation and rights to own (original documents with CD key), or Microsoft Word stand-alone installation.

Bits and pieces hardware components that can be used to upgrade computers:

• Memory expansion chips (RAM) 256 MB or 512 MB, PC133 speed preferred, but PC100 acceptable
• Hard Disk Drives with 30 GB or greater storage capacity
• DVD RAM drives
• Network Interface Cards with software drivers
• 17” flat panel monitors (preferred), CRT acceptable
• Battery backup systems for desktop computers (sometimes referred to as UPS or Uninterruptible Power Supply)
• Colour inkjet or colour laser printer

Additional software desired (including documentation and user rights):

• Corel Draw 7 or later
• Adobe Acrobat Professional
• QuarkXPress for Windows XP

Macintosh systems G4 or faster PowerPC®-based processor or Mac® Intel®-based processor (call to discuss)

Chiminea - We need chimineas to keep everyone warm at events. We would prefer these to gas-heated burners as we can use our own wood and they look more rustic.

Display Boards these are the kind that we can take to exhibitions and events with the velcro fastenings

Power Point Projector we are always giving talks to groups on and off the farm. As more groups come to Fordhall we are keen to give them the best impression and make their visit as informative as possible.

Statationery in any way shape or form is of benefit. Whether you have pens, paper, envelopes, ink, folders or laminates, it is all useful and doesnt last long at Fordhall!

Books we are beginning to increase our library for volunteers, visitors and schools. We are looking for environmental, farming, food or sustainability related books - do you have any spare?

 

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