Who is footing the bill for this incredibly expensive, I suspect, project?
Taxpayers I presume? Next time I read an article about how the UK government isn’t doing enough for the homeless, I shall say “One house at a time, mate and we’ll be there”.
“Overall, Crisis estimated that around 227,000 people were experiencing the worst forms of homelessness – rough sleeping, sleeping in vans and sheds”
The people who are doing this are concrete restoration specialists. It’s literally their entire job to think about what happens to concrete over decades and centuries. If they think a chainmail box and sealant is the way to go, I believe them.
The LARP chainmail workers guild insisted on it
The same company that made the chainmail for this project makes this:
London is the money-laundering Capitol of the world. There is more than enough taxable currency flowing through the UK to fund this restoration and solve homelessness. There just isn’t the will.
Don’t pit heritage policy against social policy. This is a drop in the bucket compared to the cost of other policies, and to the money the government handed out to their mates in the Test and Trace debacle. Or the money they lost in the Brexit debacle. Or the tax income that’s lost through tax evaders tolerated by the government. It’s not worth losing your past over trivial sums like this.
And anyway, the National Trust for Scotland is a charity. It’s financed through membership, donations, commercial income and investments. None of your precious taxpayers need to worry.
Seriously, I know you probably don’t mean it like that but this reads to me like the worst kind of red top rant.
I mean, Boris’ illegal parties aren’t going to pay for themselves…
The National Trust for Scotland. A charity supported almost entirely by membership fees, property entrance fees charged to visitors and, for this project, voluntary donations.
Plus a donation from the Getty Foundation.
Read the attached, which is from 2018 when they started the project.
And from this piece
The total cost of rescuing the Hill House will be in the region of £4.5 million. Of this, £3 million is being drawn from our reserves with the remaining £1.5 million coming from donations to the largest single fundraising campaign that we’ve ever undertaken. In addition, the Getty Foundation made a grant of £95,000 in 2015 through its Keeping It Modern initiative towards finding a solution to the house’s problems.
Donations came from many generous benefactors in this appeal, including the National Trust for Scotland USA Foundation.
Excellent info. Thank you.
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jimp:
Who is footing the bill for this incredibly expensive, I suspect, project?
The Scottish National Trust. A charity supported almost entirely by membership fees and voluntary donations.
Plus a donation from the Getty Foundation.
Read the attached (ideally, to the end) which is from 2018 when they started the project.
How do you solve a century-old problem? Easy – stop the rain.
And from this piece
We’re getting set to open the Hill House Box, following our multi-million pound investment to protect Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s masterpiece.
As I said above, this is nothing. Absolute peanuts on the scale of a national economy. Even if it was tax payer funded
virtually a rounding error in a major country’s national budget.
But, but, but this happens to be one of the few things I have commented on within boing boing that I am actually qualified to opine on! However, you are correct I don’t know the specifics of this project and new stuff gets invented all the time. But check out this cautionary tale regarding the Sphinx:
Look, we all know where this is going…
This is just the first over ever larger shelters for this project:
Yo Dawg, I heard you like colossal metal shelters…
OR… is it a giant Faraday cage. What frequencies are they trying to keep out… or in?
Helensburgh was the birthplace of television inventor John Logie Baird, so there’s another layer to the plot right there.
They could drape it in a giant Mackintosh.
Yes i saw the IS and thought that as well, and thought this was a follow up to the tom scot bit.
(Can’t believe I had to come all the way down here and post this myself)
the west coast of Scotland, where it rains 190 days a year
…on the other 175 days, it’s snowing.
