Fydell House, Boston

Funded on
25 Oct 2024

Our project ensures Fydell House and gardens offers a more welcoming environment for all by repairing and converting a garden building, The Pottery to provide toilets and accessible facilities

£22,632 Raised of £22,577

35 Backers

100%

Updates

Project started!11 months ago

The work we successfully had funded is part of a much larger project at Fydell House and we are delighted that the scaffold is almost complete meaning that the schedule of works (including the Spacehive project) is now underway! Thank you so much to all of our donors from all of us at Boston Preservation Trust.

Fydell House, Boston hit its fundraising target!2 years ago

Brilliant news, thanks everyone!

32 Donations worth £6102 years ago

Fydell House, Boston has reached 90% of its target!2 years ago

30 backers!

30 people have backed Fydell House, Boston !2 years ago

Whoop, 30 people have pledged since fundraising began!

Fydell House, Boston has reached 80% of its target!2 years ago

10 backers!

10 people have backed Fydell House, Boston !2 years ago

Whoop, 10 people have pledged since fundraising began!

10 backers!

10 people have backed Fydell House, Boston !2 years ago

Whoop, 10 people have pledged since fundraising began!

Fydell House, Boston joined: The South & East Lincolnshire Crowd 2 years ago

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Fydell House, Boston started fundraising!2 years ago

https://bostonpreservationtrust.org.uk/

Boston Preservation Trust is a registered charity set up in 1935 to save Grade I listed Fydell House when it was at threat of demotion to make way for a new road. Our charitable objectives are to save historical buildings and land in the Boston area and bring them back into meaningful use for the benefit of the public. While we own other buildings in Boston, Fydell House on South Square is the central focus of our efforts and the main one with a wider community use and benefit. Fydell House has 12 rooms available for hire for groups, meetings, activities, events, tours and talks and has a small volunteer-run café.

We have two part-time paid employees and our main activities are delivered working with our volunteers who support opening hours, office and admin, cafe one day a week, undertake cleaning, guided tours and maintain our RHS award-winning walled garden.

Over the last few years the Trust has been working on our future vision for Fydell House - one that welcomes a wider and more diverse audience through our front door, which shares its 320 -years of heritage and stories, and one that welcomes everyone in our community to enjoy the space and surroundings this exceptional Georgian house and walled garden has to offer.

We have just completed a lottery funded two-year development phase which has helped us develop our future capital plans and revision our business plan. Core to this vision is our focus on community, inclusivity and diversity to ensure Fydell House can continue to be a multi-faceted community building is at the core of our future operations and the heart of this project.

We identified our project’s needs go beyond the historic fabric: the building currently has very limited physical access and no welfare facilities and this significantly limits our ability to operate fully and to serve our community – whether they are regular users, visiting for the first time, delivering a workshop or attending an event or simply wishing to become a volunteer.

Fydell House’s future as an open space of learning, culture and community for the people of Boston is also about providing it the right environment and accessibility for our operations to build and grow and to meet the needs of our community. We want Fydell House to continue to be the bastion of community activities and a hub that can, and does, welcome all.

Project Owner: The Boston Preservation Trust The Project Owner takes legal responsibility for receiving and spending the funds raised and ensuring the project is delivered.