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These words by Magna Carta from `Seasons` 1970 came to mind this New Year's Eve. For this is the turning of the year, The final scene before the curtain falls. And now, beside the road there stands… The pilgrim of the year to be. 
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And a very Happy Christmas from Hedgebeard in Finings Wood. See you at Winter Wings on Friday 29th December.   High five! We did it! What a caring, generous, nature-loving and amazing community we have here in the Lane End Parish. The support that the Finings Wood Community Group committee have had from you has helped us keep going. It takes a lot of work, time and effort to mastermind the purchase of a large woodland for our community. But we are getting there!!
As you may have heard yesterday, the Aviva crowd funding has just closed and this fund was so good to us - to start with we were matched by 2x each donation (with Save our Wild Isles funds), and then matched by Aviva. The grand totals are: 410 pledges Donating a total of £25,564 So what next? Phew we can all have a little rest – as all funding bodies have a little lull in activity over Christmas. But we have a further 4 lots of funding bids already in progress, 3 being assessed right now. These will add to our excellent start and enable us to purchase Finings Wood for everyone. Three bids are in and the fourth is being moved along by members of the team who have a Zoom meeting set up with their advisors next week. We will keep you posted as we hear news. In the meantime you will hear very soon of a little fun thing for families planned for the woods on December 29th. So look out for the upcoming information on this free event. Have a lovely Christmas, a good rest, and be ready for action in the new year Dr Jill Eyres When the thrill of new toys have waned and parents are desperate to get antsy kids out of the house, we're running a children's activity trail in the woods 10-30am-12.30pm on Friday 29 December. Meet at the entrance to Finings Wood by Lacey's. Winter Wings children's trail is themed around birds migrating from the frozen north to the safety of Finings Wood - and the adventures they have on the way. Our little redwings and fieldfares will encounter scary Mrs Owl, spin a giant compass to find their way, battle through stormy weather and make a bird feeder from pine cones and seeds. Wrap up warm and see you there!  Wow. Just wow. And thank you from the bottom of our hearts. The Aviva crowdfunder has now ended, and you helped us raise a spectacular £25,564!! This is brilliant and goes towards our goal of owning Finings Wood for the community! You are all amazing and we are so thankful words do not seem enough. Our committee would also like to say a HUGE thank you to Jill Eyers our committee member for grants. She worked so hard on this project getting it to be accepted and is a force to be reckoned with. Jill will be giving you all an update of info regarding the grant in another post, then we will leave you in peace until tomorrow when we announce a little Xmas gift from us to the families with little ones in the village taking place in-between Christmas and New Year in the woods! Watch this space. We still have a long way to go to own this woodland, but today our little team are so chuffed with this amazing amount raised and are rather loving our incredible supporters who personally donated from this village and surrounding villages and donations from businesses and more. The messages of support showing in the fund are so lovely to read. Big hugs. HUGE! There are now just 22 hours before Aviva will stop matching your Finings Wood donation. At 16.00 tomorrow (13th) the fund will close, so please put that £10 or more towards this great local project and it will become £20 `just like that`. Go to the Aviva site below, edit the amount you wish to donate, zero the tip and add a supporting comment. £250 is the maximum amount that Aviva will double, What a great fund raiser, just look what has been added in the last few days.
Wow! Just gone over £21,000! We have 5 days left before this crowd funder ends with a £30k target allowed. We are so thankful of everyone's support this side of Christmas to help us save Finings wood for our local community.
So if you have not donated already, watch your donation double so every penny is valued! Let's do this Finings Wood supporters! @everyone This Aviva matched crowd fund for Finings Wood has just tipped over to £19K. Any donation from £5 up to £250 gets doubled. The target is £30K before next week so this is your chance to say `I helped buy Finings Wood` Add your donation, zero the tip and add a comment for all to read.  Very cold but very worthwhile weekend at Laceys Christmas fair. The Aviva matched crowd fund has increased by nearly £1000 to £18,736 Thank you for those generous donations towards the Finings Wood purchase that get doubled by Aviva. 9 more days left before this special fund closes.  |
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