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This project successfully funded on 19th April 2023, you can still support them with a donation.
Woodland storage and craft hub
Truro, Cornwall, United Kingdom
First target reached!
With additional funding, we can also buy woodland craft equipment like shave-horses ...
Aim
Friends of the Fal needs a safe and secure storage facility onsite with a shelter and a space for community craft events.
Friends of the Fal (FotF) are a not-for-profit Community Woodland Group set in the heart of rural Cornwall,with public access to a Right of Way partly along the River Fal. We came about as a result of Covid and we engage voluntarily with local communities, wildlife organisations, schools and many more, to improve the local native biodiversity, offer access to nature, hold local events and learn new skills like hurdle fence making.
Friends of the Fal is focused on replanting trees and developing a volunteering initiative to provide a variety of task days to improve conservation and public access, as well as offering craft days to inspire the local community.
So far we have planted in excess of 800 trees!
Currently, the volunteers are having to manually wheel carts and wheelbarrows full of tools and equipment along the busy main road to the woodland site each time, work, and then wheel them back again, resulting in a health & safety risk on every occasion.
We need to install a 'base' on site where the tools & equipment can be securely stored in a concealed container. By covering the container in wood and incorporate a living roof, it will allow the structure to blend in with the environment and not detach from the woodland surroundings.
The base will also have a shelter for outdoor working and an area which can be used for the volunteers and public held events. These include woodland crafts and will be open to schools for outdoor learning and other organisations that offer Forest Schools who can all benefit from the facilities. The base will contain amenities such as a first aid unit which contributes to the mitigation of risk assessments for FotF and any other recognised organisation using the storage.
We intend to add to this storage, solar panels so we can harness renewable energy to recharge batteries on equipment and tools, boil a kettle and have lights in the future.
Please help us make a difference
Cornwall Council: Cornwall Climate and Nature Fund has provided £2,000 of match funding
Funding method
Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made