Yetholm Heritage Centre has taken several years to complete. We are very grateful to everyone who has helped with the work. This page shows some photographs of the work as it proceded as well as some documentation outlining our aims and objectives.
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PROJECT BACKGROUND.
Our aim is to transform our Mission Hall into a comfortable and safe place for our meetings and annual exhibition. We will provide secure storage for our archives. We will commission interpretative panels that would be open to the public, turning the Hall into an attraction for tourists to the village. To make the building safer and more easily accessible, we plan to install a disabled door and ramp.
Our project is in three parts.
1. We wish to equip the interior of the Hall to make it a safe and comfortable place for meetings and to provide secure housing for our archives.
The interpretative panels would include among other topics:
Funding
We have already completed the first part of our project: conserving the outside of our Mission Hall and providing it with safe and cost-efficient heating. To pay for this we used £5000 of YHS money (some of it from donations) and received approx. £2000 in grants from the Apple Fund and from SBC Community Grant Scheme.
We have raised nearly £2000 from sales of our Guide, so please continue to recommend it to all your friends and neighbours.
We are actively applying to other sources of funding with particular interest in the Borders or in the preservation of culture and heritage. These include the Fallago Fund, the Hugh Fraser Foundation and the Weir Charitable Trust.
For our ‘Statement in support of Grant Applications’, please see HERE.
Our aim is to transform our Mission Hall into a comfortable and safe place for our meetings and annual exhibition. We will provide secure storage for our archives. We will commission interpretative panels that would be open to the public, turning the Hall into an attraction for tourists to the village. To make the building safer and more easily accessible, we plan to install a disabled door and ramp.
Our project is in three parts.
1. We wish to equip the interior of the Hall to make it a safe and comfortable place for meetings and to provide secure housing for our archives.
- By providing secure cupboards for our archives
- By installing projecting equipment and a screen – to be permanently fixed to the wall and roof of the Hall
- By improving our lighting
- By purchasing comfortable chairs
- By laying better and safer carpeting
The interpretative panels would include among other topics:
- Yetholm’s bronze age shields and the iron age forts on the hills
- Border warfare and reiving
- Kirk Yetholm’s gypsy heritage
- Yetholm’s festival and Shepherds’ Show
Funding
We have already completed the first part of our project: conserving the outside of our Mission Hall and providing it with safe and cost-efficient heating. To pay for this we used £5000 of YHS money (some of it from donations) and received approx. £2000 in grants from the Apple Fund and from SBC Community Grant Scheme.
We have raised nearly £2000 from sales of our Guide, so please continue to recommend it to all your friends and neighbours.
We are actively applying to other sources of funding with particular interest in the Borders or in the preservation of culture and heritage. These include the Fallago Fund, the Hugh Fraser Foundation and the Weir Charitable Trust.
For our ‘Statement in support of Grant Applications’, please see HERE.
Summary of progress on archive and heritage centre project – February 2020.
In the course of 2019 we secured grants, totalling £27,160, from the Fallago Environment Fund, The Hugh Fraser Foundation, the Garfield Weston Foundation, the Community Fund of Scottish Borders Council, our own Apple Fund and personal donations. We are very grateful indeed to all these sources of funding and everyone who has contributed. In addition money raised from our Village Guide and saved from our own resources will contribute an extra £2000 - £3000.
We have already begun the first stages with the installation of our new audio-visual system and screen, and, more recently, the fitting of energy-efficient lighting and the addition of spotlights which can be focussed either on the interpretative panels that will be fixed to the walls, or on our temporary display panels for the annual Festival Week exhibition.
The next stage will consist of Kevin Lee fitting a new door to replace the middle window on the NW side of the building. We can then get on with internal work: a new lectern and steps; fitting an audio-loop; new carpeting; fire-proof cupboards to house our archive boxes; and, eventually, new chairs. The ramp to meet the new door will be built in late Spring or early Summer. We have produced one mock-up for a prototype historical display panels that will adorn the walls of our Heritage Centre to inform visitors to the village about the history of our area. The demanding work on these is progressing slowly but we hope this part of the project will be completed over the next year and a half.
In the course of 2019 we secured grants, totalling £27,160, from the Fallago Environment Fund, The Hugh Fraser Foundation, the Garfield Weston Foundation, the Community Fund of Scottish Borders Council, our own Apple Fund and personal donations. We are very grateful indeed to all these sources of funding and everyone who has contributed. In addition money raised from our Village Guide and saved from our own resources will contribute an extra £2000 - £3000.
We have already begun the first stages with the installation of our new audio-visual system and screen, and, more recently, the fitting of energy-efficient lighting and the addition of spotlights which can be focussed either on the interpretative panels that will be fixed to the walls, or on our temporary display panels for the annual Festival Week exhibition.
The next stage will consist of Kevin Lee fitting a new door to replace the middle window on the NW side of the building. We can then get on with internal work: a new lectern and steps; fitting an audio-loop; new carpeting; fire-proof cupboards to house our archive boxes; and, eventually, new chairs. The ramp to meet the new door will be built in late Spring or early Summer. We have produced one mock-up for a prototype historical display panels that will adorn the walls of our Heritage Centre to inform visitors to the village about the history of our area. The demanding work on these is progressing slowly but we hope this part of the project will be completed over the next year and a half.
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31st July 2020
Despite lockdown work on the Heritage Centre has been progressing steadily.
The new side door has been installed, the hearing loop has been installed, a new carpet has been fitted, a new lectern has been made (courtesy of the Men's Shed, Kelso) & the stage slightly adjusted to take it.
The photographs above show some of these new features + some of the keen members of the Heritage Centre Action Group ...
We are currently awaiting deilvery of a new display cabinet and archive storage cupboards - the archive boxes are currently strewn all over the place, as can be seen, but should be safely housed soon.
Despite lockdown work on the Heritage Centre has been progressing steadily.
The new side door has been installed, the hearing loop has been installed, a new carpet has been fitted, a new lectern has been made (courtesy of the Men's Shed, Kelso) & the stage slightly adjusted to take it.
The photographs above show some of these new features + some of the keen members of the Heritage Centre Action Group ...
We are currently awaiting deilvery of a new display cabinet and archive storage cupboards - the archive boxes are currently strewn all over the place, as can be seen, but should be safely housed soon.
7th September 2020
Photograph below shows the new display cabinet being installed - and the new archive cabinets in situ on the stage.
Photograph below shows the new display cabinet being installed - and the new archive cabinets in situ on the stage.
