My project to help you and arboriculture

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Hi Tony. I'm a trustee of a small charity woodland. What I've found from a fund-raising point of view is that few people are REALLY that interested. Its not something that cute and cuddly (panda) its not a little orphan looking for support, or a starving, malnourished child from Africa that tugs at heart-strings. We get quite a few visitors during the year, but none of those will put their hands in their pockets and donate to keep it maintained.

What you are suggesting is going to appeal to a very very tiny group of people, and getting any kind of financial support is going to be very difficult. Our charity has grants from local Wildlife Trusts, Parish Council, the Green party and so on, perhaps you could approach similar people?

 

I have no doubt about my capacity to make this all it can be, and to rally what I need from those that can and will provide fuel to its fire, which will burn brightly.

 

I am not a very academic person, but one thing I do do well is bring things together, and get people motivated.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I have to choose which of these two "options" to go for as a charitable organisation

 

i) the advancement of education

 

ii) the advancement of environmental protection

 

the two are described here The advancement of environmental protection or improvement.pdf

 

It may be possible to be both, i dont know yet, but im interested in your opinions.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I think going on what ive seen (the details are vast!) I may need to have at least two members to be a legitimate charity.

 

This leaves me with only one option other than quit, find a willing (glutton for punishment) partner. This may not involve much of their time or effort, but inevitably will cause some inconvinience from time to time which would of course be covered within the renumeration clauses!

 

so....... anyone fancy getting involved in such a scheme?

[David Humphries]

I have to choose which of these two "options" to go for as a charitable organisation

 

i) the advancement of education

 

ii) the advancement of environmental protection

 

the two are described here [ATTACH]61040[/ATTACH]

 

It may be possible to be both, i dont know yet, but im interested in your opinions.

 

 

 

Concentrate on one area, is my thoughts.

Could spread yourself too thin with attack on two fronts.

 

Personally I would go down the AEP rather than the AE.

 

Broadly working on a number of species but specialising in a handful (like the Hericiums etc....)

 

Choose a select few woods, research the records, spread some spore, do some walks.

 

 

 

 

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[Xerxses]

Is that your car tony, out front, the white one?

 

ps your garden needs a good tidy and why do you have 3 green wheelie bins?

 

pps letter will get sent this week:thumbup:

 

Thats the Fungmobile, The garden is a fieldexperiment (you didnt thread on any mycelium, did you?) and the wheelie bins is the secret laboratory!!!

[geoff]

It sounds a great idea Tony,I wish you well in the venture!

[sean freeman]

Concentrate on one area, is my thoughts.

Could spread yourself too thin with attack on two fronts.

 

Personally I would go down the AEP rather than the AE.

 

Broadly working on a number of species but specialising in a handful (like the Hericiums etc....)

 

Choose a select few woods, research the records, spread some spore, do some walks.

 

 

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Really good advice, though of course you would have a broad and inclusive introduction for those wanting to gain greater understanding...and that can in itself (the intro) become a hugely useful and popular aspect of what you are delivering.

 

This is certainly the case with educating presenters like Dr Francis Schwarze.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Thats the Fungmobile, The garden is a fieldexperiment (you didnt thread on any mycelium, did you?) and the wheelie bins is the secret laboratory!!!

 

 

I never knew fame would be like this, having my house google mapped and folk discussing my shabby garden! lol

 

I should attempt to grow the biggest puffball one that can be seen from space, that would be funny!

 

I am going to make it a woodland fragment soon (the garden) a small group of pollards, ship in a massive lump of deadwood, a log pile stacked so hedgehogs can enter, reserect a piece of standing dead 15ft x 2 ft for the bugs and woody woodpecker, underplant with anemones and build a small wildlife pond for aquatic inverts and newts.

 

a five by five metre log cabin at the bottom as THE facility, with a bunk in the roof for those that wanna stay over on hardcore research weekenders!

 

And will run an open facility/lab/library on the first weekend of each month where all are welcome, to come and play/discuss/practice/learn.

 

If I could re mortgage i would have done it already:thumbup:

[armybloke]

Letter winding its way up to you right now trooper!

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Really good advice, though of course you would have a broad and inclusive introduction for those wanting to gain greater understanding...and that can in itself (the intro) become a hugely useful and popular aspect of what you are delivering.

 

This is certainly the case with educating presenters like Dr Francis Schwarze.

 

 

I have never heard him speak, i would like to though:thumbup1: