Comments by louisa venables
15:09 03 June 2010
Hi Everyone,
I don't live close to Peircefield, but am willing to do my bit. Firstly I think it's the Charity set up we need to know about. I have briefly looked at this before as we have an old mill that needs restoring. It's not that complicated, although there is time and effort involved. If we want to raise money to buy the property, we need to secure it with the vendors at a good price. Although I am not very experienced at money raising, I think although I might be wrong, that if you send emails letters to people, associations etc, you might get a blank answer, unless you are already a charity.
I have looked at trusts and fund raising methods and most criteria for saving old buildings, is you must be a charity.
Although I am not saying that putting a letter together would not be a good idea, maybe that we show us the way forward by getting comments from people in the know and what they think is the way forward. For instance SAVE, as suggested should be able to give us a good idea of procedure etc.
Looking forward to comments
LOUISA