Sadly, the long-running campaign to save Charles Causley’s House is running out of steam.
Custodian of the late poet’s house, The Charles Causley Trust has worked since 2004 to try to conserve for future generations the intact home and contents of one of this country’s most loved poets. Visit the media section our website to see the extraordinary intactness of the property. You can also see throughout the house with our brand new Flickr Photostream. It is saving this aspect of the poet’s house that is now slipping from our grasp due to lack of funds.
The Trust hoped to save the house to be a 20th Century version of Wordsworth’s Dove Cottage – to inspire the school trips and literary tourists in the 22nd Century and beyond. Still, with only some alterations, the house is very much as it was when Causley was alive, as if the acclaimed poet has just walked out, up Angel Hill, to the shops. But, despite hard work and campaigning, and raising over £50, 000 so far, the Trust are facing up to the possibility that there may be no funders – and many sources have been tried – for this visionary project. At least £150, 000 is needed.
To conserve the house and contents properly will require more money than has been raised thus far, and this winter the Trust faces abandoning the conservation philosophy it has tried so hard to follow in favour of more rudimentary repairs to responsibly preserve the fabric of the building. More invasive renovation will be needed in future months, thus losing the original extension area of the house forever. The Trust faces the very real possibility of selling the house back on the market in future years.
If you can help the Trust at all in its endeavours, through funding, or voluntary fundraising, please contact mail@thecharlescausleytrust.org or write to The Charles Causley Trust, c/o Potter Baker Chartered Accountants, Launceston, Cornwall.
You can call The Charles Causley Trust on 07767 712783.
You can make donations here.
