Thank you all for your great support for our petition. We have closed it today at 467 signatures in order to send it in to Ross McEwan, Chief Exec at RBS, with copies to George Osborne, Vince Cable, and local MPs.
Had we left it longer we would have gained more signatures, and we will point this out in our covering letter, but in only 2 weeks we have have established the considerable level of support for our plans and for the proposal that RBS delay the sale of the Hall until we have completed the Heritage lottery process.
Please do continue to follow the project on our website http://houghendhall.org and do please consider adding your financial support by making a pledge, big or small on our crowdfunding appeal: you only pay if we meet the target, and showing that we have raised these funds will also help our HLF application which if successful would allow us to buy the Hall (read more about it here).
Thanks
Mark Burton and Carolyn Kagan
for the Friends of Hough End Hall