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Fordham Hall in Shropshire has been in the same tenant farming family for 3 generations but is now under serious threat of being sold - as of 1st July unless the children of the late farmer Arthur Hollins raise £800,000 to buy it. The farm is 128 acres of grassland, 200 livestock and a 16th century farmhouse.
Arthur Hollins was a pioneer and worked in a harmonic way with the land and nature way before it was fashionable. His young children Charlotte and Ben, just 21 and 24 want to cary on his good work and add to the legacy. They are brave, hard working and inventive.
They have been working round the clock to raise funds, and are only a third of the way there, they have re-invested in the farm with the help of the Prince's Trust and come up with a clever idea to turn the farm into a kind of trust itself to enable them to continue to farm, and to help the community. They have plans for a tea house and various other projects like running courses to teach people what their Father taught them.
They are offering shares of 32 square metres for £50.00 each, everyone can buy shares of land and own the farm for life as a community.
This is the first of this kind of project in the UK. There is every chance that this can work - and we could save more places in this way.
It is an amazing story and really heartwarming. It would be a real drag if this little piece of history and beauty became yet another development statistic.
Please have a look at their website and consider helping them. I've bought a few shares, what the hell - I might get up to see my teeny patch of countryside one day.
http://www.fordhallfarm.com
Fordham Hall in Shropshire has been in the same tenant farming family for 3 generations but is now under serious threat of being sold - as of 1st July unless the children of the late farmer Arthur Hollins raise £800,000 to buy it. The farm is 128 acres of grassland, 200 livestock and a 16th century farmhouse. Arthur Hollins was a pioneer and worked in a harmonic way with the land and nature way before it was fashionable. His young children Charlotte and Ben, just 21 and 24 want to cary on his good work and add to the legacy. They are brave, hard working and inventive.
They have been working round the clock to raise funds, and are only a third of the way there, they have re-invested in the farm with the help of the Prince's Trust and come up with a clever idea to turn the farm into a kind of trust itself to enable them to continue to farm, and to help the community. They have plans for a tea house and various other projects like running courses to teach people what their Father taught them.
They are offering shares of 32 square metres for £50.00 each, everyone can buy shares of land and own the farm for life as a community.
This is the first of this kind of project in the UK. There is every chance that this can work - and we could save more places in this way.
It is an amazing story and really heartwarming. It would be a real drag if this little piece of history and beauty became yet another development statistic.
Please have a look at their website and consider helping them. I've bought a few shares, what the hell - I might get up to see my teeny patch of countryside one day.
http://www.fordhallfarm.com
