This Winter Bridgend Activities continue, with the Café open Wednesday through Sunday, including the Wednesday evening community meal, until Sunday 17th December. We'll be doing a bit of a spruce up in the café and kitchen space over the festive holiday so the break will be a bit longer than usual with service resuming Wednesday 17th January.
Our regular, indoor and outdoor activities [click on the December titled option in the slider below for details] will also continue until the same date with the hope of the weather being obliging, but with the intention of recommencing a week earlier in January. We plan to offer a "Warm Space" facility [room dependent on work underway] for volunteers and the EH16/17 community covering the usual café days [except Wednesday 20th], from 11-3 each day, hot drinks and company would be available.
Bridgend Farmhouse is a community owned and run charitable organisation in south Edinburgh with a mission to ensure our now renovated farmhouse exists as a sustainable community-owned centre for learning, eating and exercise, where all can learn, work and grow together to develop a flourishing community and place.. |
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Spring and Summer Appeal
Over the next few months we must raise enough money to make up for the loss of a Scottish Government grant which was funding our core staff at the farmhouse. In the past, this has amounted to £80,000 a year and we had hoped this would increase to £120,000 a year to meet our rising costs. So this is a major blow.
Without the three core staff posts, the farmhouse’s work cannot continue. Our projects and events, ranging from gardening to arts and crafts and community meals, are separately funded but they depend on the farmhouse being open and operating well. And our three partner organisations – running children’s clubs and cycling activities, depend on the farmhouse too.
We are fortunate in being supported by our remaining funders, by our 400 members and by our local politicians. We are also trying to raise more of our own money through our café and renting out our workshops, rooms, marquee and bothy. But the fact remains that we need that core funding restored.
So anything you can do to help would be wonderful. You can send a one-off donation or standing order into our bank account: Bridgend Farmhouse 08-92-99, account number 65855258. If you can let us know you’ve done this by emailing info@bridgendfarmhouse.org.uk we can sort you out with gift aid forms and acknowledgements as need be!
Thank you, John Knox
Chair of Trustees
Bridgend Farmhouse
Over the next few months we must raise enough money to make up for the loss of a Scottish Government grant which was funding our core staff at the farmhouse. In the past, this has amounted to £80,000 a year and we had hoped this would increase to £120,000 a year to meet our rising costs. So this is a major blow.
Without the three core staff posts, the farmhouse’s work cannot continue. Our projects and events, ranging from gardening to arts and crafts and community meals, are separately funded but they depend on the farmhouse being open and operating well. And our three partner organisations – running children’s clubs and cycling activities, depend on the farmhouse too.
We are fortunate in being supported by our remaining funders, by our 400 members and by our local politicians. We are also trying to raise more of our own money through our café and renting out our workshops, rooms, marquee and bothy. But the fact remains that we need that core funding restored.
So anything you can do to help would be wonderful. You can send a one-off donation or standing order into our bank account: Bridgend Farmhouse 08-92-99, account number 65855258. If you can let us know you’ve done this by emailing info@bridgendfarmhouse.org.uk we can sort you out with gift aid forms and acknowledgements as need be!
Thank you, John Knox
Chair of Trustees
Bridgend Farmhouse
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