Ian Brown

Ian Brown's Birthday

Fundraising for Dumfries and Galloway Aviation Museum
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Celebrating the birthday of Ian Brown, 8 January 2021
Participants: Ian Brown
The last year has been tough for all heritage sites. Closed to visitors we have had to look to our own reserves and internal cost cutting to make ends meet. We plan to reopen in spring 2021 but we need your help to get us there.

Story

We are a small independent museum run entirely by volunteers with our prime income coming from our visitors, the vast majority of which comes during the summer season. When the lockdown started in March of 2020 we had to closed our doors and we have remained closed ever since. We have lost an entire years worth of income. Many of our volunteers were in the shielding category due to age and/or health and so even with restrictions lifting slightly in the South West of Scotland we have remained closed until they are able to return. We currently plan to reopen in the spring of 2021 but we expect there to still be restrictions due to social distancing, and our volunteer availabilty, and so the number of days we are able to open to the public will be less than in previous years. Our current expectation is that we will operate at 40% of our previous capacity; which means we will have to operate with only 40% of our previous income. Can you help us fly high again ?

About the campaign

The last year has been tough for all heritage sites. Closed to visitors we have had to look to our own reserves and internal cost cutting to make ends meet. We plan to reopen in spring 2021 but we need your help to get us there.

About the charity

We are a volunteer run museum based on the site of a WW2 aerodrome, RAF Dumfries. We care for an expanding collection of artefacts covering the history of aviation, the role of this base during WW2 and the role of Airborne Forces.

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