|
Date |
Milestone |
| August 1998 |
Community trust conceived |
| September 1998 |
Steering group formed between
representatives of Whittington Parish Council and Oswestry Borough Council |
| 7 December 1998 |
Inaugural Public meeting held |
| 24 December 1998 |
Trust incorporated as a company limited
by |
| 25 January 1999 |
First extraordinary meeting of
the trust |
| 16 March 1999 |
18 month license to manage the
Castle and site acquired |
| 10 April 1999 |
Open day |
| 26 April 1999 |
Trust formally registered as a
charity |
| 4 May 1999 |
Affiliated with the Association
of Preservation Trusts |
| 2 June 1999 |
Enrolled with Entrust as an environmental
body under landfill tax regulations |
| 5 July 1999 |
Consultant team started work on
feasibility study |
| 24 July 1999 |
Inaugural Medieval Fayre |
| 27-29 July 1999 |
Consultant team on site |
| 31 August 1999 |
Draft study report delivered to the Trust |
| 3 September 1999 |
Open air concert at the Castle |
| 8 September 1999 |
Trust met to consider draft
report |
| September 1999 |
Millennium Awards for All grant
awarded |
| November 1999 |
£18,000 funding for urgent
repair works secured |
| 8 December 1999 |
Second Public Meeting |
| May 2000 |
First meeting between trustees
and castle owners |
| 10 May 2000 |
First AGM of the Trust with guest
speaker, Paul Renfry, Historian and Author |
| 3 Jun 2000 |
Second Medieval Fayre |
| Jun 2000 |
Second opinion sought on
valuation |
| July 2000 |
Urgent repair works completed |
| 1 September 2000 |
"Open air" concert held
in Community centre due to rain |
| 30 September 2000 |
End of initial license period.
License extended to give more time for negotiations |
| Nov 2000 |
Second meeting between trustees
and castle owners |
| 31 Jan 2001 |
EGM of Trust to discuss revised
terms for acquisition |
| 21 Feb 2001 |
Third Public Meeting |
| April 2001 |
Oswestry Borough Council approve
£10,000 grant towards acquisition costs |
| 3 July 2001 |
Second AGM of the Trust with
guest speaker, David Preston of Oswestry Town Council |
| 11 August 2001 |
Book signing at the Castle by
award winning author of romantic fiction Elizabeth Chadwick |
| November 2001 |
Geophysical survey of Medieval
garden |
| 28 January 2002 |
Countryside Agency award Trust a
project preparation grant under the doorstep green scheme |
| 19 March 2002 |
Council of management of the AHF
approve application for £10,000 loan towards acquisition costs |
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| May 2004 |
HLF bid for approx £950k
submitted |
| 30 September 2004 |
Sponsorship from Richard Burbidge
Ltd announced |
| 30 September 2004 |
Launch of public appeal to raise
approx £200k needed to bridge funding gap |
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| November 2005 |
Repair and restoration work
commences |
| 4 May 2007 |
Castle handed back to the Trust
after completion of the building project |
| 14 June 2007 |
Official re-opening of the Castle
by HRH Duke of Gloucester |
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