Fantastic news – a link to the Telegraph website has been created for ONE WEEK ONLY! Click here to read the brilliant article. Send this link round to your friends and family. It captures the story perfectly and is wonderfully…
Month: April 2006
£145,000 Raised so far..
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Volunteer Experiences
Below is an extract from an email a volunteer has circulated. It clearly shows the passion that volunteers have for the Initiative. Fordhall Farm means something different to everyone. Make sure you give yourself the opportunity to visit and discover…
£125,000 Raised so far – £675,000 to go…
Thank You Countryman Magazine, Midlands Today and the Saturday TelegraphYour readers have pushed our total to £125,000 – over £50,000 in sales in the last week alone! Our shareholder base has increase to over 1200 members from across the country…
Permaculture Course at Fordhall
Fordhall will hold its first official educational course this August. A Permaculture Design course will run from the 12th – 26th August based at Fordhall Farm. Permaculture is all about working in balance, and utilising everything evident in nature to…
Shareholders Take Campagining Into Own Hands
We have had many reports of ‘mini’ campagins being launched by shareholders. These are ranging between cake stalls, dinner parties and fun runs to putting information in veg boxes and canvassing influential people. We would like to express our huge…
Telegraph Takes Us By Storm!
WOW! What an amazing reaction from the Telegraph readers! We have been completely overwhelmed by the response we have recieved. It is no exaggeration to say that the phone has not stopped ringing since Saturday. We are walking around with…
Saturday Telegraph and progress
We have it on good authority that there will be a feature in this saturdays Telegraph on the Fordhall Community Land Initiative – keep your eyes peeled. We are also in this months Countryman magazine (a huge thank you to…
Padre on a Journey
All at Fordhall would like to say thank you to Padre Jim, resident at the army base across the Tern Valley. He has been, with his Son David, to a number of our working weekends and has helped out occassionally…
Amount Raised So Far…
We have so far raised £70,000 through the sale of shares and donations, amounting to over 400 shareholders from across the breadth of the country. It is clear that there is still a lot to raise before we meet our…