Clarification re some queries we've received re Monday's GiftAid note below to UK taxpayers: 1) Thanks to all who've already replied 2) Whether your donation was £5 or £5,000 you can increase its value by 25% at no extra cost to you 3) Just email your Name, Address, and the statement ""I'm happy for The WB Yeats Bedford Park Project to claim GiftAid on my donation, which is my own money and I have paid or will pay that amount or more in UK income tax or capital gains tax this year." 4) If you pledged anonymously you can still help us by forwarding the above details which will be only be used for HMRC claim and will not appear publicly anywhere. *** Original email: Mon 02/08/2021 6:20PM Important note, now all your kind donations have been collected: if you're a UK taxpayer you can increase your gift's value to us by 25% at no extra cost to you. Applies to both large and small donations, and cumulative GiftAid claimed will really help us kick-off "Phase 3", a total arts/educational/heritage experience to wrap around the artwork's launch and future legacy, including a smartphone version of the long-running "Land of Heart's Desire" Yeats/BedfordPark literary guided tour; promotional video; Yeats/poetry workpacks for school visits; and young people's and evening poetry/arts events to celebrate the unveiling on Yeats's birthday, 13th June, 2022. Having taken us to our target with your generosity over five crowdfunding months we'd be so grateful if you'd take five minutes to help us to that extra 25% by emailing info@wbyeatsbedfordpark.com (don't simply press reply!) giving name and address and stating "I'm happy for The WB Yeats Bedford Park Project to claim GiftAid on my donation, which is my own money and I have paid or will pay that amount or more in UK income tax or capital gains tax this year." And many thanks again for your generosity.

Important note, now all your kind donations have been collected: if you're a UK taxpayer you can increase your gift's value to us by 25% at no extra cost to you. Applies to both large and small donations, and cumulative GiftAid claimed will really help us kick-off "Phase 3", a total arts/educational/heritage experience to wrap around the artwork's launch and future legacy, including a smartphone version of the long-running "Land of Heart's Desire" Yeats/BedfordPark literary guided tour; promotional video; Yeats/poetry workpacks for school visits; and young people's and evening poetry/arts events to celebrate the unveiling on Yeats's birthday, 13th June, 2022. Having taken us to our target with your generosity over five crowdfunding months we'd be so grateful if you'd take five minutes to help us to that extra 25% by emailing info@wbyeatsbedfordpark.com (don't simply press reply!) giving name and address and stating "I'm happy for The WB Yeats Bedford Park Project to claim GiftAid on my donation, which is my own money and I have paid or will pay that amount or more in UK income tax or capital gains tax this year." And many thanks again for your generosity.

Well, we made it... or rather, you made it happen, three-hundred-and-seventy-nine of you, no less, pledging £134K of your gold and silver to see the enwrought "golden and silver light" of Yeats's Irish literary genius swirling, flying, gyring upwards from the very London "roadway" and "the pavements grey" he walked as a boy, dreaming of Irish landscape, lore and legend: or at least from the green and very-Bedford-Park leafily wooded triangle between main road and the footpath to the Yeats family's two Bedford Park, London, addresses from 1879 to 1902... Soon the only Nobel Prize-winning poet to grow up in England WILL have, in London's uniquely Bohemian/Utopian Arts-&-Crafts suburb, a stunning Conrad Shawcross tribute ("of hammered gold and gold enamelling" in Yeats's phrase) on the route he walked home to write his best-loved poem of exile, "The Lake Isle of Innisfree". All of you who backed us will be listed on www.wbyeatsbedfordpark.com, including, of course, London's Royal Academy of Arts, Dukes Education, Irish Embassy London, Hounslow Council, The Tabard (Yeats's local!), Josephine Hart Poetry Foundation, Jimmy Page and Scarlett Sabet, Rowan Williams, Bob Geldof, Marie Heaney, The Jeremy Vine, Anne-Marie Fyfe, Polly Devlin, Tom Paulin, Roy Foster, Edna and Michael Longley, Fergal Keane, Kevin McNally, Phyllis Logan, Shevaun Wilde, Ciarán Hinds, Martin and Joyce Enright, Marina Warner, Joseph Hassett, countless poets, actors, academics, Yeats fanatics, and lovers of all the arts, and literally hundreds of local Bedford Park residents. And thanks, of course, for wonderful coverage over the past five months, to Bedford Park Society, The Poetry Society's "Poetry News", Irish Times Culture, Times Literary Supplement, The Tablet, Chiswick Mag, The Irish Post, The Chiswick Calendar, W4 Newsletter, The Chiswick Herald, Chiswick Pier Trust, The Irish World, Literary London, #CoffeeHousePoetry, Write Out Loud, EUNIC, Irish Literary Society, and numberless poetry, arts, cultural and local/community and parish newsletters, websites and blogs! Real work begins today, starting with a Conrad Shawcross Studios planning meeting and continuing with both the practical and the arts/educational/heritage aspects you can read about under "What happens now?" in last-week's Chiswick Calendar (https://chiswickcalendar.co.uk/its-coming-home-the-yeats-bedford-project-is-almost-there/) and we'll keep you informed of progress over the next year to the grand unveiling celebration on WB Yeats's birthday on 13th June 2022. Meantime, thanks, all of you, for such incredibly generous support!