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Last chance for Special Pre-Christmas prices on Finings Wood framed (and unframed) photographs. Come on down to Turville Studios this Sunday 11-4pm to see these and many more local woods and tree images. 10% of sales from this series go towards the funding for Finings Wood - so you will be giving twice if you buy one as a gift! Christmas cards, gifts, framed and unframed prints and originals, at affordable prices too- all at Turville Studios this Sunday. 
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To wake up and see the fund at just over £14,000 has made our hearts leap this morning. WOW WOW WOW! thank you to 99 Supporters! incredible.
Lets get that last push out as we try for our first target of £15,000! Aviva funding will soon run out as we are not the only group asking for help across the UK from this fund. Will you be supporter number 100? Reminders: The fund match funds by two times your donation, so if you donate £20 they add another £40! Max donation from them is £500, so £250 max on your donation. You can amend the suggested amounts they show to smaller or bigger using the free text box and you do not need to add a tip. Try not to use the same details twice as they only allow one donation per person/card etc., so amend name if you wish. Lastly THANK YOU! we are really humbled. https://www.avivacommunityfund.co.uk/p/finings-woodrooted-in-the-community As the funding site for Aviva & Save our Wild Isles is fast closing - anyone wanting to make a second donation I recommend using a different card for payment and/or using your name slightly differently e.g. I used ‘Jill Eyers’ and ‘DrJ. Eyers’.
Reason: The fund seem to allow only one donation for the x2 offer - although they actually have allowed several second donations through successfully so this is playing safe for max income for the woods. IMPORTANT. I have just received an e-mail from the Aviva and Save our Wild Isles Fund to say:
"The Save Our Wild Isles fund is now very close to being fully allocated. Pledges from the remaining fund amount will be made on a first come, first served basis. The Save Our Wild Isles Community Fund matches £2 for every £1 donated by the crowd up to £15,000 for your project." Let's make every one of our pounds work in triple while their funds last - a quick push forward to getting more donations will help us reach that last third of our target. Nab anyone who has not put in a pound or so We are so nearly almost there! What an amazing 'Five Ends' effort - thanks so much! The link to donate to, or to send to others, is in the previous posts. Just incredible to see we are well over the £9000 mark now, and over half way there for the first round! Our supporters are epic! lets keep it going if we can, and spread the word. It only allows one donation per person, so lets make it count and see your pennies triple! please feel free to share the post to your tribe. EDIT: The crowdfunding lasts until the fund runs out and we have had notice it is nearly at its end! so please donate today if you can! Only 1 donation per person if using same card to pay and name, matched to £500 max. You can set the tip to zero and you can use the free text box to put a smaller amount in than is shown x  There are 722 supporters in our group which is fantastic. 52 supporters have donated to our crowd funder and got it to over half way with £8000+ already! Imagine what could be achieved if some of the rest of you were able to perhaps donate a tenner or more and watch your donation triple! We are so grateful to you all. This wood deserves to be owned by our village for our village. Caroline Watson - Facebook - Committee Member  A reminder that the Lane End parish council meeting is tomorrow evening 6th Nov at LEYCC at 7.30, The Parish Council have invited a volunteer warden from Penn Common Wood who will be giving a short presentation about this community woodland. It would be great to see as many people as possible at this meeting.
Paul Thomas - Trustee Wow! We are more than one third of the way towards our £15,000 funding with the Aviva and Save our Wild Isles crowd funding. Their generous offer of giving us twice any donation is wonderful, but we only have a couple of weeks. Even if you can only spare £1 then this will be matched x2 giving a £3 donation via Aviva. There are lots of us out there in and around Lane End - people power armed with lots of single one pounds can help us buy Finings Wood for the community. Of course the more you can spare, the quicker we reach the goal. If we miss out then we are certain to lose these beautiful woods. Let's pull together and save our patch of nature for the village. Here is the link to donate (and you do not have to give the 'tip' they suggest of course! EDIT: Double wow! We are now up to £8557 today 11th Nov. Plus that is from only 50 supporters. An amazing thank you to all those contributing so far. Let's make sure all our supporters help out, even if just a tiny bit. Remember Aviva are putting in 2 x every donation. The comments on the fundraising page say it all - WE ALL LOVE our woods. We have opened a Crowd Funding site to help us add to the purchase funds for Finings Wood. This fund is GREAT !! Whatever you put into it, Aviva and the Wild Isles Nature Fund will put 2 x that. So if you put in £10 it becomes a £30 donation - like magic! Please pass this information on to friends, family, folk at work, strangers in the street anyone. We only have this open opportunity for 8 weeks, then it is closed. So we need to move rapidly to increase our funds. So it's all systems go and here is the link to the page: www.avivacommunityfund.co.uk/p/finings-woodrooted-in-the-community?fbclid=IwAR3C0ldKS-aAxsBH6qhyjlI83Ftk5TQcns-TUZQAX33T59rLDNfJEWLonl0 |
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