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The Christmas Tree festival

Apparently the ringers had not previously entered the village Christmas Tree Festival. This seemed a bit of an oversight; we could help...

A Busy Lull

October and November should have been fairly quiet months, the contract had been placed, a provisional start date of mid-March had been...

Contract placed - September 2018

September brought the first major donation to the Ringers as opposed to the PCC. We were lucky enough to be awarded £1,000 by the...

The Open Day

There is an annual event called the Heritage Open Day; in reality it is a series of events which take place across the country over...

But August was better

August brought in over £10,000, out best month to date. The Hobson Charity very generously awarded us £5,000, if we still needed it at...

July 2018 - a good month

July proved to be a lucrative month. The leafleting campaign had started to yield offers of help together with cash donations to the PCC,...

Early success

Fundraising started in early May 2018, with a flurry of letters and applications. We were encouraged by two early successes. The first in...

Cyril Worth and others

Thanks to the goodwill of local people we were able to make savings in the project cost of around £9,000. Kevan and Owen Borlase have...

The Leaflet

The single most effective form of fundraising turned out to be the leaflets. Five months after they were first circulated we continue to...