£14k boost for The Village Church Farm Museum in Skegness

The Village Church Farm Museum in Skegness has benefited from a £14,000 government grant aimed at making local heritage accessible to more people.

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00:00The Village Church Farm Museum in Steadness has benefited from a government fund that is making

00:07the local heritage accessible to more people. You've got some incredible news haven't you can

00:12you share that with us? Yes we've actually successfully been awarded a significant grant

00:19that's going to have a massive impact on us so we've been awarded £14,085. And they described

00:26it as a lifeline what does this money mean to you? Well it's actually covered before the floor

00:35so it's going to send us a big lifeline to our quiet period and it's going to cover our running

00:41costs and our operating costs and it's also going towards a marketing plan as well which

00:45that is the main thing we hear from a lot of people is that they've never heard about it or you know

00:50they just drove past and it's not very well um like you know signed and things like this

00:54so it's going on towards a marketing plan as well as operating costs. And that's such a shame isn't

00:58it because you've had such a a wonderful summer of events haven't you? Tell us about some of the

01:04events that take place there. Well we've had our annual events so we've had the 1940s so the wartime

01:11village the hidden village which is the steampunks as well as Robert Overton's regiment afoot doing civil

01:17war um we've got some wonderful viking re-enactors uh with uh Skegisheim I think they call it um and uh

01:25Alice in Wonderland that's a another fantastic event here so we've had all the annual ones

01:30and then we've also had some added in extras um like the pinch of Lincolnshire event um obviously

01:35Easter so it's all been really successful and we've actually managed to increase our footfall by over a

01:41thousand compared to last year so that's fantastic. That is incredible and it's so explain what the

01:48what the museum has to show people because obviously you're still open aren't you through

01:54through the winter or do you have a have a period where you close? We'll be open up until I think it's

02:02the 14th of December and then we close just down for Christmas and then open again in the February

02:07half to us that's our time to do sort of winter maintenance and things um but uh obviously as

02:12you know we've got the big listed farmhouse we have a wonderful attraction which is Bob the traction

02:17engine everyone loves Bob everyone loves Bob yeah everyone will be able to see him again next year

02:24but again they're winding that down now uh obviously we've got the modern stuff cottage so we've got a

02:28lot of things here that people have not got the opportunity to see anywhere else and a cafe and a

02:34car park which are always good things to plug aren't they absolutely that gives us a big big selling

02:40point yeah yeah so you've got your board members there I understand so do you want to just have

02:46a little swing around and and see because these things wouldn't happen hi these things wouldn't

02:52happen without the hard work of all your volunteers as well and uh and these are sort of some of the

03:01board members that help sort of keep things uh in line but um how are you for volunteers at the moment

03:10because I know we have done appeals haven't we in the past for volunteers we're desperately seeking

03:17more volunteers that is always going to be an ongoing thing um because we've got so much for anybody

03:23and everybody uh so they'll always fight be a job someone can can do it's it's not a problem um but

03:30we just not many people want to volunteer especially a lot locally so we're reaching out all the time

03:36for anybody that can even just spare an hour of their time just once a week even it makes a massive

03:41impact on a completely volunteer-led business yeah and it has been described to me before that you're all

03:49one big big big family really so so it's it's a fun thing to be involved in absolutely friendships for life

03:57here i think

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