The Barn Owl Centre - Developing the Centre

New for Gloucestershire

Barn Owl Conservation Centre with Bird of Prey Centre

The Barn Owl Centre has now settled within its new home at Netheridge Farm located in Hempsted, Gloucester. For those who are new to our organisation, we moved to this farm from a previous location in Brockworth, all happened during March 2008. The 12.5 acre farm with many outbuildings has been handed to our charity by Gloucester City Council; we have been granted a long lease for a period of 99 years with the added support of a peppercorn rent period for the first 25 years.

The farm we have moved into needs a lot of TLC, it was handed to us in a derelict state & before we could move in we had to build from scratch & with very little funding, a temporary Centre, this was professionally constructed & is located to the side of the many derelict buildings we have future plans for. By building temporary it kept our initial moving costs down, this allowed our organisation to move to the farm much quicker. With the tightest budget & determination WE MADE IT!

With the temporary Barn Owl Centre with our new added Bird of Prey Centre now up & running & looking very presentable, we can now go forward with the knowledge of working with minimal disruption being caused during the future development of the farm buildings.

To help with the extra funding requirements, we need to look at increasing our income levels so we can meet the future expenditure that will occur.

For us to create Gloucestershire’s first Barn Owl Conservation Centre with full educational facilities we need all the support we can get, we can do so much ourselves but we will struggle to do it all ourselves. Any offer of help & support will be of great help to us, it will benefit not just the work of our charity, but all ages of the community who visit us & most important the wildlife we support!

For anyone wishing to become involved, please give us a call so we can show you around, a visit will enable you see the full potential of this exciting project.

Images below will help show the scale this project

Below are many other ways to offer support, also view the image gallery below by scrolling down

Charities Aid Foundation

CAF helps to provide the donor with an secure online facility that helps to bring the Barn Owl Centre and donor together using tax-effective giving.

For business or a personal interest. Click on the CAF logo to find out more.

If you wish to support us by post, donations can be sent to us using the below address

Barn Owl Centre
Netheridge Farm. Netheridge Close
Hempsted. Gloucester. GL2 5LE
Tel: 01452 383999

Your support is very important to us as a charity - Our Charity Number is: 1097410

WISH LIST – Can you help with any of the below

All materials of any quantity will be a great help to us. We have loads of storage space where materials can be stored for use during the development. Any unwanted materials can keep the charities cost right down as we develop the Centre to its full potential. Everything helps!

Building & Roofing Materials

100,000 Old Reclaimed Bricks

1000 of 4” Concrete Blocks & 1000 of 4” Thermolite Blocks

20,000 Clay Roof Tiles

1000 square metres of Reclaimed Flagstones or Paviers.

Wall, Ceiling & Roof Insulation

100 bags of Cement

72 sheets of 8”x4” - ½” Plasterboard

3 rolls of 9” damp course

20 Rolls of Roof Felt & 10 Breathable Roof Felt

Aggregates

200 ton of Type One Stone
60 ton of Type One dust