krela
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Hey all, I hope you had a great Christmas and New year.
Seeing as some of you have donated already I thought I'd start a new thread for 2015 with new donation information.
So here's the stats for the last year:
As you can see it was another busy year, with 1.2M visits from 764k unique visitors, who viewed 5.6M pages between them. It just goes to show how much interest there is in the forgotten history of buildings, so thank you all for your interesting contributions!
The donations you make go primarily towards paying for the server the website is hosted on, but every year I also donate about 1/3 of the donations to a charity, and we have raised money for charities such as Help for Heroes, Cat Protection and last year Macmillan.
This year I've decided to do something a little bit different. As many of you will know last year myself and a friend managed to persuade Bristol City Council to give us a lease on a derelict Victorian Gothic chapel with a view to renovating it and bringing it back into use as a community centre. If you want to know more I wrote a [ame="http://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/showthread.php?t=29536"]location report[/ame] on it, and we have an official website too.
We have no pot of money to do this, and there's no "business plan" to raise it. We're raising funding and sourcing everything we need from scratch as we go along, and all the labour involved is voluntary, so every penny we raise goes directly into the future of the Chapel. With this in mind I've decided to put 1/3 of this years donations into this rather than a national charity. I hope you see it as a good cause, we certainly do. It's a beautiful building that has been left to rot for 30 years, and we're not willing to watch it crumble beyond repair.
Donating will get you a chapel logo
next to your name as you can see from mine, and you can find the donation button at the bottom of this post or on the right hand side of the homepage.
If you do donate please either include your username as an instruction with the paypal donation or PM me with your paypal email address so I know who has donated. It doesn't automatically tell me your username on paypal so I don't know who to give the donation icon too unless you tell me.
Thank you for your generosity in advance! I hope you all have a happy and productive year filled with dereliction, fun and photos.
Ben.
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Seeing as some of you have donated already I thought I'd start a new thread for 2015 with new donation information.
So here's the stats for the last year:
As you can see it was another busy year, with 1.2M visits from 764k unique visitors, who viewed 5.6M pages between them. It just goes to show how much interest there is in the forgotten history of buildings, so thank you all for your interesting contributions!
The donations you make go primarily towards paying for the server the website is hosted on, but every year I also donate about 1/3 of the donations to a charity, and we have raised money for charities such as Help for Heroes, Cat Protection and last year Macmillan.
This year I've decided to do something a little bit different. As many of you will know last year myself and a friend managed to persuade Bristol City Council to give us a lease on a derelict Victorian Gothic chapel with a view to renovating it and bringing it back into use as a community centre. If you want to know more I wrote a [ame="http://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/showthread.php?t=29536"]location report[/ame] on it, and we have an official website too.
We have no pot of money to do this, and there's no "business plan" to raise it. We're raising funding and sourcing everything we need from scratch as we go along, and all the labour involved is voluntary, so every penny we raise goes directly into the future of the Chapel. With this in mind I've decided to put 1/3 of this years donations into this rather than a national charity. I hope you see it as a good cause, we certainly do. It's a beautiful building that has been left to rot for 30 years, and we're not willing to watch it crumble beyond repair.
Donating will get you a chapel logo
If you do donate please either include your username as an instruction with the paypal donation or PM me with your paypal email address so I know who has donated. It doesn't automatically tell me your username on paypal so I don't know who to give the donation icon too unless you tell me.
Thank you for your generosity in advance! I hope you all have a happy and productive year filled with dereliction, fun and photos.
Ben.
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