Sponsor a Brick Campaign
In the continuing push for funds going towards the opening of Fred’s former residence as a Heritage Centre, word is coming in of a “Sponsor a Brick Campaign”.
When you sponsor a brick by donating £10, not only do you get a certificate (by email or post) but also entry into a competition to win a first prize of £7,500 £500 (updated: see below) cash, with lots of other prizes available. The Heritage Centre is also giving 25p of every brick to Cancer Research UK.
Be sure to check out the Heritage Centre’s web site for full details.
Also do not forget that the Heritage Centre has many items for sale on their eBay site:
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Other news posted at the same time gives us an insight to the cost of the project, a mysterious person called “Phil the fettler” has posted this message:
To just give you some idea of what is required before we can open the site to the public, the council insist that we put toilet facilities in place. These must include Disabled toilets; then we have to securely fence the perimeter to prevent people falling down the 70 feet to the river. We have to put safety rails around the exhibits, we have to totally resurface the outside pedestrian areas and as we may at some time want to bring vehicles in, this surface has to be to highway standards and disabled friendly.
The inside floor of Fred’s main workshop is old railway sleepers, for health & safety reasons, a part of this (a walkway) has got to be covered with smooth non slip surface wherever the public may set foot. We have got several estimates in for this work which amount to £267,000 and that is just to satisfy the council. We also have to re-roof the small workshop, and the rear half of the main workshop. We we want to make this a pleasurable experience for the visitors so we want to provide pleasant seating areas which due to our wonderful climate need to be covered, and also somewhere for the visitor to get a drink and a sandwich – which then requires a catering kitchen.
So as you can see we need to raise £500,000 before we start on fettling the boilers and all of Fred’s fantastic machinery. This is why as Project Manager, I am asking you to dig deep to let us realise Freds dream.
Kindest regards,
Phil the Fettler.
Someone by the handle of ‘Dinah’ over at the Heritage Centre Forum noticed that the prize month has been reduced to £500. No official word as to the reason for the change, but it seems the campaign didn’t go as well as first anticipated. Shame…but times are tough out there at the moment, but if you can spare a couple of ££ please do send it their way.
Any heard any update from the draw? The winner was due to be announced on 7th June.
Just noticed that there has been an update posted regarding the Campaign:
Congratulations to Glynn Bailey! Anyone got their certificate yet? No sign of mine yet.