Appeal
launched to save Warder's Tower
4 July 2008 
Warder's Tower is a picturesque
but derelict tower built in 1828 as a gamekeeper's cottage. It is
set in a beautiful country park in Staffordshire but unless something
is done soon, it won't survive and there are no local funds to save
it. We have launched an appeal to rescue this building, please show
your support with a donation if you can.
Read more about the Warder's
Tower story and find out how to donate.
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Heritage Lottery Fund pledges support for Astley Castle
25 June 2008
Astley
Castle in Warwickshire is one step closer to being saved following
the news that the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has given a pledge
of support for a grant of £1.47million. The pledge is
stage one of a two stage process and plans for the project are being
developed further by Landmark and it is hoped that confirmation
of a grant from the HLF will be announced in Spring 2009.
Click here
to read further details.
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Silverton Park Stables opens
13 June 2008
Landmark
acquired Silverton Park Stables
over 20 years ago and for the past few years our specialist
team has been working on site to restore the structure and give
it a new future as an inspiring place to stay. Now complete, Silverton
Park Stables is available for long or short breaks and can accommodate
up to 14 people.
Please contact the Booking
Office for details.
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Palladio's 500th anniversary celebrations
11 June 2008
Andrea
Palladio was one of the greatest Italian architects of the Renaissance,
and certainly the most influential. 2008 is the 500th anniversary
of his birth and to celebrate Landmark is liaising closely with
Centro Internazionale di Studi di Archittetura di Andrea to
offer a variety of special events and extended opportunities for
visiting Villa Saraceno in Finale, Vicenza.
Click
here for more information
about the special celebrations and a detailed history of Villa Saraceno.
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Spring
Raffle raises over £100,000
15
May 2008
The Spring Raffle 2008
has been our most successful yet and we have raised over £100,000
for the first time. Thank you very much to everyone who took part,
together you have raised £103,000 to help us rescue more buildings
in need.
Here are this year's lucky
winners – Spring
Raffle 2008 Winners List.
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Good
news about Gift Aid
19
March 2008
In the recent Budget the
Chancellor announced that, following the lowering of basic rate
income tax from 6 April 2008, charities will now receive transitional
relief on Gift Aid claims for the next three years, which means
that Landmark can continue to claim 28p on every £1 of Gift
Aided donations until 5 April 2011. This is very welcome news.
Higher-rate taxpayers will
also benefit from this tax change; from 6 April 2008 the net cost
of a £1,000 gift will reduce to £750 from £769,
while its value to Landmark will be £1,282. The article
on page 8 of the Spring 2008 newsletter (attached below) went to
print before this announcement was made.
It is therefore even more
important that all eligible UK taxpayers Gift Aid their donations,
a valuable source of income for the Landmark Trust. To
make a Gift Aid declaration please download
this form, or telephone the Development Office on 01628 925920.
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Landmark
News - Spring 2008 newsletter
19
March 2008
Spring
Newsletter [1mb]
If
you do not have Adobe Acrobat you can download it free by clicking
get Adobe Acrobat below.
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Guardians of Cowside launched
5 March 2008
For
a donation of £6,000 you can become a Guardian of Cowside
and play a critical role in the rescue and restoration of this late
seventeenth-century farmhouse
within the Yorkshire Dales National
Park. In return for your vital support, you will receive a variety
of benefits enabling you to become closely involved in Cowside's
conservation while helping to ensure that the building has a future.
Thanks
to supporters large and small, our appeal for Cowside has to date
raised almost £200,000, a third of the total funds needed. The
new Guardians of Cowside scheme is designed to provide those with
a passion for seeing this building saved a way to follow the project
both before and during the restoration phases, while helping Landmark
to move closer to the £600,000 appeal target.
For
more information about the scheme or to become a Guardian of Cowside,
please download the pdf below.
Guardians
of Cowside [603KB]
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you do not have Adobe Acrobat you can download it free by clicking
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Topping
out ceremony at Clavell Tower, Dorset
29 February
2008
On
Monday 25 February, we celebrated the topping out ceremony at Clavell
Tower, when the final stone was placed on the newly rebuilt
tower by Peter Pearce, Director of the Landmark Trust and Adrian
Tinniswood of the Heritage Lottery Fund.
Landmark started to dismantle
the historic folly in September 2006 and has since rebuilt it 25
metres back from the eroding cliff edge. The project will be completed
later this year following further building work and the fitting
out of the interior.
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186th
Landmark opens its doors
4 February
2008
Stoker's Cottage, Stretham near
Cambridge, opened its doors to its first visitors on Friday 1 February.
The cosy cottage was built in 1840 as a toll house and then became
the home of the stoker who kept the huge boilers of the Stretham
Old Engine stoked with coal. Following its recent refurbishment,
funded by a generous major donor, it is now available to stay in
for up to two people.
Please contact the Booking
Office for details.
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New
- making donations online
18 January
2008
Our website now allows
you to make donations online. This means in addition to the more
traditional methods of giving, you can now support Landmark and
our current appeals quickly and securely online. Click the button
below to make a donation.
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Win
a stay in a Landmark
16 January
2008
The Landmark Trust Spring Raffle 2008 is the opportunity for you
to win the Landmark break you have always dreamed of, while raising
vital funds to save endangered historic buildings. First Prize is
£3,000 to spend on your choice of Landmarks.
For more details please
click here.
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A
Coalbrookdale stove needed for
Warden Abbey
16 January
2008
Landmark
wants to put a stove into Warden Abbey, Bedfordshire, as after many
years of trying, we have been unable to stop the open fire from
smoking. However, we are having trouble sourcing the particular
stove we need as it is no longer in production.
We are looking for a model
called The Darby by Coalbrookdale because it is one of the biggest
stoves and extremely efficient in heating up large rooms. We have
used this stove in many Landmarks such as Saddell Castle, Kintyre,
Argyll and Bute, Calverley Old Hall, West Yorkshire and Silverton
Park Stables, Devon. So far we have had no success in finding one
for Warden Abbey. If you could help please contact Trisha Pottinger
on 01628 825920 or email tpottinger@landmarktrust.org.uk.
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2008
Open Days
4 January
2008
We
are pleased to announce the 2008 Open Days programme, which includes
Freston Tower, Suffolk, Anderton House, Devon and Princelet Street,
London. To view the programme please visit the Open
Days page.
Please contact the Booking
Office for details.
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A
festive break in a Landmark
19 November
2007
With
Christmas and the New Year just around the corner, we still have
some availability in selected Landmarks. Why not enjoy your festivities
around a roaring fire in the dramatic location of Fort Clonque in
the Channel Islands, or celebrate Hogmanay at Gargunnock House in
Central Scotland.
Contact the
Booking Office or visit
our availablity
page to find out which buildings are still available
for your festive break.
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Glenmalloch
Lodge now open
1 November
2007
The
restoration of Glenmalloch Lodge,
Dumfries and Galloway, is complete and is now available for up to
2 people. The setting as well as its picturesque architecture,
will make this building a special place to stay.
Please contact the Booking
Office for details.
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16
October 2007
Autumn
Newsletter [1mb]
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you do not have Adobe Acrobat you can download it free by clicking
get Adobe Acrobat below.
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Emergency
appeal launched for Lundy
29
August 2007
£250,000
needs to be raised urgently for repairs to Lundy's only access road.
The condition of the road has deteriorated dramatically due to extreme
weather and increasing rainfall and repairs are now critical. Lundy
General Manager, Derek Green said; "We urgently need to raise the
funds to strengthen the parts of the road most at risk and ensure
Lundy's unique environment can remain accessible to all who want
to experience it. Please help by making a donation".
Click
here for further information or to donate online.
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Saving
Astley Castle
13
July 2007
This
week we are unveiling our
plans for saving one of
the most important buildings in North Warwickshire, Astley
Castle, Astley, near Nuneaton. The castle which dates
back to the 1200s is a nationally significant building but is in
a severe state of disrepair.
An exhibition detailing
the Landmark Trust's innovative plans for restoring Astley Castle
will be on show over the next few weeks to gather feedback from
local people. The exhibition will take place in the Astley Reading
Room, Astley from 14 to 22 July and then move to Nuneaton Library
until 17 August. On 14 and 15 July staff from the Landmark Trust
will be available in the Astley Reading Room between 10am and 4pm
to discuss the project.
We welcome your views on
any aspect of our plans and it will be very helpful to know your
opinion by emailing astleycastle@landmarktrust.org.uk
or by completing the questionnaire.
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Help
us save Cowside
29
May 2007
We
have launched a £600,000 appeal to restore Cowside,
a neglected farmstead at the heart of the Yorkshire Dales. Cowside
is rare as a remarkably complete and unaltered example of a late
seventeenth-century Yorkshire farmstead. Abandoned for over
50 years and now derelict and deteriorating rapidly, Landmark is
appealing for donations to help us save this building before it
is too late.
To find out how to make
a donation please visit Supporting
Landmark.
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Sir
John Smith CH CBE
Sir John Smith
3 April 1923 -
28 February 2007
Founder of the
Landmark Trust
Martin Drury, Chairman
of the Landmark Trust said,
"Everyone at the
Landmark Trust feels a deep sense of loss at the passing of Sir
John. He was an inspiration to us all and we are enormously proud
to work for the organisation he created. His sublimely simple formula
for breathing new life into historic buildings is a precious legacy
to the nation and will enrich the lives of all who care for our
built heritage for years to come."
Obituaries can be viewed
using the following links:
The Guardian, The
Independent, The
Telegraph and
The
Times.
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The
Landmark Trust 2007 Raffle
19
April 2007
Thank you very much to
everyone who took part in the Landmark Trust 2007 Raffle - a list
of winning tickets is available here.
We are delighted to announce that we have raised over £83,000
which will be put towards the restoration of buildings at risk.
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Keeper's
Cottage Opens
22
March 2007
We
are delighted to announce that after starting the restoration of
Keeper's
Cottage in Feburary 2006,
it is now complete. To celebrate, we held a public open
day on the 24 March. The building
is now available for up to 4 people and the first guests will be
staying in the building from 26 March 2007.
Please contact
the Booking Office for
details.
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Time
Team Special:
Augustus Pugin - God
of Gothic
13
March 2007
Channel
4 presented a Time Team Special about Augustus Pugin on Thursday
1 March. In collaboration with the Landmark Trust, the series producers
followed our restoration of The
Grange in Ramsgate, the house Pugin built for himself
and his family, which was completed last year. The programme also
visited several other Pugin buildings and demonstrates how influential
his ideas still are today.
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