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Weʼre raising £800 to Fund the hosting and maintenance of a free to use for everyone already established genealogy and local history website based UK County
- Wiltshire, UK
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For the past 8 or 9 years our website has been funded by the owner. Sadly the owner can no longer support the site as they have in the past. We do not charge for the use of the website but have reluctantly decided to ask users or supporters for the occasional donation to help offset costs for hosting and maintenance. The website volunteers have given many hours of their time adding information to the site for all who wish to use it and we do not want to abandon the site after so much hard work has been put into it. We think we will need to raise in the region of £500 initially to take over the site and maintain it in the first year of new management. Within the first two weeks of this fund opening we hit our target of £500 - we have decided to keep the fund open for the year so that we can build a backup emergency fund and to develop the site in the future if need be.
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- 6 months ago
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6 months agoDonations are still coming in. We are now building the back up fund for future costs and for emergencies and development. Thank you all for you kind support for the project.
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41
Mary Allen
May 11, 2018
For Wiltshire OPCs and websiteThank you
Anonymous
Apr 29, 2018
£10.00
Sue Stenning
Nov 29, 2017
Keep up the good work
£10.00
Maureen Withey
Nov 18, 2017
Thank you Teresa for all your hours of hard work, and to the rest of the OPC's and for all Susan and Michael have done for so long. It is a great achievement from you all!
£10.00
Carol Corfield
Nov 13, 2017
Thank you for all your hard work.
£10.00
Keith Woods
Nov 10, 2017
Pleased to be able to help.
£20.00
Kim Brockway
Nov 7, 2017
I don't know what I would have done without the Wilts OPC, it's made researching my maternal grandfather's family so much easier! Thank you.
£10.00
About the fundraiser
Teresa Lewis
Wiltshire, UK
We are the Wiltshire OPC Project and for the past 8-10 years we have ran a free to use genealogy web site. Sadly the owner of the site can no longer maintain and fund the website so we are looking to keep it going with public donation to assist those who are willing to keep the
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