For those who would like to support the work of the Mellor Archaeological Trust
In recent years grant funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund and Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council has enabled us to greatly expand the scope of the work and enlist the necessary services of professionals in different fields. However, to sustain this the Trust must raise £5,000 a year as our part of this partnership agreement with the Heritage Lottery Fund, which ends in 2009.
The basic income of the Trust has always come from the activities of the 'Friends' who have raised money through subscriptions, donations, open days and private visits, sale of booklets, gift aid receipts and bank interest. This allows us to maintain the partnership with the HLF and cover often unforeseen expenses, both during the excavation but also during the vitally important post excavation follow up on the desktop and in the laboratory and to extend the range of activities and opportunities open to the public which we had not previously identified.
In addition, in order to ensure continuation of the work into the future, we need to build up reserves to finance the excavation in 2009 and 2010 when the HLF grant funding has ended.
We try to keep costs down to a minimum and ask only £5.00 per year for membership of the Friends and £8.00 for an unlimited family ticket to all the Open Weekend activities, so we are always delighted when individuals, businesses or organisations become fascinated by amazing discoveries of the Trust and offer to support us by making an additional donation.