MUSEUM IN CRISIS

The Dumfries and Galloway Aviation Museum enters 2007, its 30th year, in crisis. New landowners have raised the rent from £700 to £5000 per year. As a volunteer organisation this will sadly not be sustainable on a long term basis. However, the landowners have indicated that the Museum could buy the existing site for £130,000 with an option to buy an additional small piece of land for expansion, at a total cost of £400,000. The Museum has no option but to enter into a 3 year lease with the new landowners in order to give time to raise the capital through fund-raising and grants, to buy the site, which is a huge mountain to climb.

The directors feel it would be a total disaster if they are unable to raise sufficient cash to buy the site within the 3 years to ensure the safe keeping of the collections for generations to come.

Therefore, if you feel you would like to contribute to the fighting fund and help to give the highly respected Dumfries and Galloway Aviation Museum a future -

	You can make a donation by sending it to:- Jym Francey (Treasurer) 2 Woodlands Cottages Embassy Drive Newbridge DUMFRIES DG2 0HZ or donate on-line using Pay Pal by clicking the donate button. Donating by PayPal is secure and easy. You do not need a PayPal account to donate. Simply click the button and follow the instructions. You will be returned to the Museum's website when you're done.