Support our campaign for Wentworth Woodhouse
SUPPORT OUR CAMPAIGN FOR THE FUTURE OF ENGLAND'S GRANDEST COUNTRY HOUSE WENTWORTH WOODHOUSE IN YORKSHIRE
A race is on to raise funds to preserve Wentworth Woodhouse, one of the grandest stately homes in Britain, by placing it in a new charitable trust which will open it to the public.
So far £3.4m has been pledged towards an acquisition target of £7m. SAVE Britain's Heritage which initiated the successful campaign to rescue Dumfries House is now urgently seeking a matching sum to enable the purchase to go ahead.
Wentworth Woodhouse is a marvel of English architecture, one of the largest and most impressive of all 18th-century country houses, the seat of a great political dynasty and the home of a Prime Minister.
SAVE and its partners have helped initiate the new Wentworth Woodhouse Preservation Trust (WWPT) to serve the following purposes:
1. To preserve the house and grounds on a long term sustainable basis with extensive public opening;
2. To find sustainable and sympathetic uses for those parts of the property not open to the public;
3. To raise funds both for acquisition and repairs and other essential works.
Please see our plans below, and also the full detailed press release
YOU CAN HELP US!
We are gathering pledges and donations towards the campaign.
If you wish to pledge a contribution, please send your name, contact details and amount you wish to pledge, to Mike Fox on mike.fox@savebritainsheritage.org or SAVE Britain's Heritage, 70 Cowcross Street, London EC1M 6EJ.
If you wish to make a donation please do so via our Just Giving page - https://www.justgiving.com/savewentworthwoodhouse.
Alternatively, please contribute towards the costs of running the campaign either by cheque (made to SAVE Britain's Heritage to the above address) or using the Donate button on the homepage of our website. SAVE has been creating a rescue package for the house for the last two years and has been monitoring the house for over 25 years. We are a charity that receives no public funding and every penny counts!
If you would like to become a Friend of SAVE, please follow this link:
http://www.savebritainsheritage.org/support-us/become-a-friend
Press release