Following the Friends of St Laurence AGM on October 30th, Richard Thwaite gave a short presentation on the status of the fundraising for the Tower Repair Project and the next steps. Due to the unavailability of the Church Laptop and Projector, he was unable to show his prepared slides. These are now available to be downloaded below:
In summary, the situation is that the current cost estimate (including inflation and contingency of over 10%) is that we will require almost £260,000 for the repair works and also to provide improved accessibility to the Tower, as well as the provision of interactive information boards to ensure that the history and heritage of the Tower is able to be enjoyed by many future generations. To date FoSL have incurred expenses of almost £14,000 in architects fees, bat survey fees and cost estimators fees. With regards to fundraising, at the time of the AGM, FoSL had raised around £50,000 for the Tower fund, which together with £10,000 that has been allocated by the PCC gives a total of £60,000.
(Subsequently to the AGM FoSL received confirmation of a £5,000 grant from the Water Farthing Trust and £6,000 from the Village Fayre, which along with other donations has meant that the total available is now £80,000).
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