Post by rosegriffintwidell on Oct 26, 2015 17:09:54 GMT
We are delighted to report that we are now receiving advice and support from the Woodland Trust in setting up a Page Woods Charitable Trust.
The task of setting up the right model has been a bit of a nightmare to say the least!!! We have received conflicting advice from different organisations. The last thing we wanted to do was to spend the best part of £1000 on solicitor fees if we could find an expert to help us.
We seem to have spent a lot of time trying to explain our "catch 22" situation to many people, so it was a huge relief when I finally spoke to Paul at the Woodland Trust who understood exactly the problems we had. Apparently a number of other groups have had the same problems and the Woodland Trust now has a full time member of staff working with groups in Nottingham and Yorkshire.
However, we are currently the only group from Essex to make contact......who knows, we might end up being a template for other groups in the area.