Barn Owl Centre Appeal - 2010
New for Gloucestershire
Owl Conservation Centre with Bird of Prey Centre
Are you in a position to offer any help?
2010 is going to be an exciting year with loads going on with regards to develope the next important stages of the Barn Owl Centre, this is to happen within the background whilst being open to visitors.
Can we take this opportunity to ask if you can help us by donating funds or building materials to assist what is going to be a great Centre for the County of Gloucestershire. By scrolling down you can see the list of building materials we need to get the job done. Any help is a bonus to our charity, which is here to benefit Education, Conservation & most important Bird Welfare.
Future development plans of the Barn Owl Centre
The Barn Owl Centre moved into a derelict farm during the course of 2008. During this move we built a temporary holding Centre to accommodate the birds in our care & important facilities that as allowed us to operate the charity's business & its activities. During the Summer of 2009, we opened our doors to the public, at weekends & during School Holidays. With the temporaary Centre now operational & working well, we are now ready to commence work on the farm buildings, for this we need to gather support from the community including businesses. If you want to see the project, please give the Centre a call, we would love to show you around so you can see its potential.
The Barn Owl Centre has now settled within its new home at Netheridge Farm located in Hempsted, Gloucester. For those who are new to our organisation, we moved to this farm from a previous location in Brockworth, all happened during March 2008. The 12.5 acre farm with many outbuildings has been handed to our charity by Gloucester City Council; we have been granted a long lease for a period of 99 years with the added support of a peppercorn rent period for the first 25 years.
The farm we have moved into needs a lot of TLC, it was handed to us in a derelict state when we move in, during 2008 we had to build a new infrastucture from scratch & with very little funding, this was in the form of a temporary Centre, this was professionally constructed & is located to the side of the many derelict buildings we have future plans for. By building temporary it kept our initial moving costs down, this allowed our organisation to move to the farm much quicker. With the tightest budget & determination WE MADE IT!
With the temporary Barn Owl Centre with our new added Bird of Prey Centre now up & running & looking very presentable, we can now go forward with the knowledge of working with minimal disruption being caused during any future development of the farm buildings.
To help with the extra funding requirements, we need to look at increasing our income levels so we can meet the future expenditure that will occur.
For us to create Gloucestershire’s first Barn Owl Conservation Centre with full educational facilities, we need all the support we can get, we can do so much ourselves but we will struggle to do it all. Any offer of help & support will be a great, it will benefit not just the work of our charity, but all ages of the community who visit us & most important the wildlife we support!
For anyone wishing to become involved, please give us a call so we can show you around, a visit will enable you see the full potential of this exciting project.
Images below will help show the scale this exciting project, would you like to part of it?
Below are many other ways to offer support, also view the image gallery below by scrolling down
How to donate by Credit Card or Direct Debit
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Charities Aid Foundation
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CAF helps to provide the donor with an secure online facility that helps to bring the Barn Owl Centre and donor together using tax-effective giving.
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How to Donate by Post
If you would like to send a cheque donation, please send to the address below:
Barn Owl Centre: Netheridge Farm. Netheridge Close
Hempsted. Gloucester. GL2 5LE
Your support is very important to us as a charity - Our Charity Number is: 1097410
WISH LIST for Building Materials & Tradesmen
Can you help with any of the below
All materials of any quantity will be a great help to us. We have loads of storage space where materials can be stored for use during the development. Any unwanted materials can keep the charities cost right down as we develop the Centre to its full potential. Everything helps including the help from people within the building trade!
Building & Roofing Materials
6 x 7mtre RSJ's - 6"x6" - 37kg
100,000 Old Reclaimed Bricks
1000 of 4” Concrete Blocks & 1000 of 4” Thermolite Blocks
20,000 Clay Roof Tiles
1000 square metres of Reclaimed Flagstones or Paviers.
Wall, Ceiling & Roof Insulation
100 bags of Cement
72 sheets of 8”x4” - ½” Plasterboard
3 rolls of 9” damp course
20 Rolls of Roof Felt & 10 Breathable Roof Felt
Scoffolding Required
Aggregates
200 ton of Type One Stone
60 ton of Type One dust
80 ton of Washed 10mm Pea Gravel
120 ton of Gravel
20 ton of Building Sand
Treated or untreated Timber
1000 metres of 9”x3”
1000 metres of 8”x2”
2000 metres of 6”x2”
2500 metres of 4”x2” PSE
2000 metres of 2”x2” PSE
20 bundles of Roofing Batten
200 sheets of 18mm External Plywood
3000 metres of T&G Timber Cladding
1000 metres of 6”x1” Sawn Timber
Aviary Wire: 200 metres x 4ft of 2”x2” Plastic Coated Wire
Electrical: 3 Phase Supply, Electrical Wire, Fixtures & Fittings etc..
Plumbing: Toilet facities, Heating, Pipework, Fixtures & Fittings etc...
Miscellaneous Trades
Damp Coursing, Plasterer/Dry Liner, Bricklayer, Carpenter, Electrician, Plumber & Fencer
Fencing
500 Round Stakes
600 metres of Stock Proof Fencing
500 metres of Half Round Rails
Plant Machinery/Vehicles
JCB or 8 ton excavator, dumper truck & twin vibration roller
A pick up truck or the kind use of one to collect materials
Project Image Gallery
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