Askfield Toolshed project needs your help

A project bringing the community together to learn new skills is seeking support to win £2,500 to expand The Toolshed.
The Toolshed needs your support for expansion.The Toolshed needs your support for expansion.
The Toolshed needs your support for expansion.

The Askfield Project in Friskney has already invested in its barn to improve facilities such as power, lighting, heating and woodworking tools but now needs equipment to repair, re-purpose and restore.

Currently six months into the NHS-funded project, The Toolshed was gaining popularity when Covid-19 forced closure. However, it highlighted the range of equipment needed for expansion.

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As a result, the Care Farm entered a competition to win £2500 from the Calor Community Fund.

If successful, the project will give anyone in the community the opportunity to 'Grow Through Experience'.

Hannah Blevins, of the Care Farm, said: "It will support older people in their hobbies, younger people through learning the value of practical skills and re-purposing, and tradesmen needing parts and repair of tools.

"The project also enables clients of the care farm who have mental health issues to participate in something with a positive outcome for someone else.

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"Since the inception of the Care Farm in October 2017, is has developed a comprehensive business plan, of which The Toolshed is a component.

"Our plans are flexible, so during the current crisis we are providing activities for our clients remotely.

"This ability to flex, understand and meet our clients' needs is key to our sustainability.

"We have close links with the community within which we live but we also extend out to Skegness, Boston and Anderby Creek, a radius of 20 miles.

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"We pride ourselves on our reputation for forming a mutually supportive community; our project development has been supported by funding from local NHS mental health trust, the National Lottery, the local Lions Club and gifts from clients and well-wishers.

The competition is run through Crowdfunder but people do not have to donate money. If someone supports the r Crowdfunder page by liking or sharing it, the project gets one point and if somebody leaves even £1 donation, it gets 10 points. At the end of the voting window, the people with the most points go in the final. Anything raised on Crowdfunder still goes to the project.

To support the appeal, visit. https://communityfund.calor.co.uk/thetoolshed

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