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My suggestion is - create a simple web-site with photographs and a history of the buildings and an appeal for funds and/or a sponsor. Investigate charity status, Approach the Lottery Fund. Good Luck, Ron in Hong Kong, China With a similar problem at a Chinese Temple http://members.nbci.com/TempleGarden/Default.htm _______________________________________________________________________ Original Message: From: michael2 <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Date: 14 January 2001 11:10 Subject: Revitalisation of Rudyard Kipling Venue? Apartment 1, 6. Kipling Terrace, c! Bideford, North Devon. EX39 1HY 01237 421468 14/01/01 Letter to The Kipling Society Dear Secretary, This is my first contact with the Kipling Society and please forgive me if I have sent it to the wrong venue, perhaps you would be kind enough to ensure it gets on the right desk. Thank you. You may notice from my address that I live in one of the " .....Twelve bleak houses by the shore!", which according to The North Devon Marketing Bureau no longer exists! Currently, there is a move a foot to restore this building and the adjacent "headmasters house" to the magnificence and majesty it once possessed and enjoyed. This has been prompted by people such as my wife and I who have found an ever increasing number of visitors to the village seeking us and wanting to know all about Rudyard Kipling and his school days. In the analogy of "acorns and oak trees", my colleagues and I are very much in the pre-acorn stage of things, but it seems at this moment that I am the one who has been given the challenge to source the avenues of help. Having previously been owned and allowed to depreciate by the Torridge District Council, it is now possibly at its lowest. The property is close to losing its character, with falling masonry and general run down state, but there are number of owners here that feel that it has gone as far as it can go and something must be done, because in a very short while there will be no turning back and all the history of Rudyard Kipling schooldays will be lost forever. We have very little time or money but we do the best we can with our own small personal funds, but it is inadequate and we fear the worst. It is our desire to bring RK back to life in Westward Ho! where he belongs. Any help and guidance you can offer will be very gratefully received. Please help. We have a residents meeting this Wednesday and if you have any thoughts before this we would be delighted. Yours sincerely, Michael Cockerham. _____________________________________________________________________________