Save London's Vineyard

Forty Hall Community Vineyard

Save London's Vineyard

An appeal by Forty Hall Community Vineyard

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of £85,000

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About the appeal

Forty Hall Community Vineyard has suffered three years of bad harvests (due to bad weather and mildew) and is now at risk of closure if we don't yield a good crop this year. We urgently need £85,000 of equipment and resources to manage the vineyard and protect our vines from disease. Most of all we need the tractor pictured above to reliably carry out essential organic spray work. Otherwise London's only commercial scale vineyard may be lost. Please donate today! _______

Forty Hall Community Vineyard is a place of sanctuary and social connection for local people.
It is also London's only commercial scale vineyard since the Middle Ages, a unique heritage site in Enfield, North London. It is also a pioneering 'ecotherapy' project, with income from the sales of our award- winning, certified organic, wines being put back into maintaining our vineyard and delivering health and wellbeing activities for the benefit of our community. The vines are largely cared for by a dedicated group of over one hundred volunteers, who attend throughout the year. we also welcome the wider community in for events and visits to enjoy the sanctuary of this unique green space in London.

Since 2009, the vineyard has been thriving, but after three years of poor harvests (due to adverse weather conditions and devastating powdery mildew that we were unable to control with the equipment we currently have) we are now in need of vital funds to enable us to continue our work and become a sustainable enterprise.

Without urgent funding to improve our equipment and resources, there is a serious and very real risk of there being no harvest in 2023, meaning no more wine to sell - and the end of London's vineyard.

We have managed our finances well enough to sustain the project through three disappointing harvests and a pandemic, but we cannot survive another year without monetary support. The biggest investment required is for a reliable vineyard tractor ( £55,000), so that we can spray (organically) exactly when we need to, and prevent the spread of disease. We have already raised the funds for a sprayer, but we also need to pay for more supervision of the vineyard, to support the hard work of the volunteers. This will give us the best chance for a healthier yield of grapes that will produce wine for us to sell and secure the future of London's pioneering vineyard. For more information about us you can read our full fundraising document here.

Every donation is so gratefully received - thank you!
Donate £100 or more and we'll invite you to a special celebration in the vineyard to thank you personally for your support.
Donate £500 or more and we'll also put your (or your company) name up in the vineyard to show our gratitude.

26%

£22,167

of £85,000

days left

314

backers

Donate now

What your gift could provide

£10

Every penny counts! We'll be £10 closer to the tractor we so vitally need.

£100

Will help us protect 20 precious vines, this year and every year, to produce more lovely wine.

£500

Moves us firmly towards securing the long term future of London's vineyard, for everyone.

Latest donations

Anonymous

I made a donation to Forty Hall Community Vineyard

05/06/2023

£10

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I made a donation to Forty Hall Community Vineyard

04/06/2023

£100

Anonymous

I made a donation to Forty Hall Community Vineyard

04/06/2023

£200

Stats

Online donations

£17,286.50

Gift Aid

£3,522.38

Raised offline

£4,880.00

Total raised: £25,688.88

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