Woodcot, Salcombe. Elder home. Given to charity. Enjoyed by many. Now under threat. Please help us. скачать в хорошем качестве

Woodcot, Salcombe. Elder home. Given to charity. Enjoyed by many. Now under threat. Please help us.

Woodcot in Salcombe is a beautiful residential home for the elderly. It is being sold by AGE UK the charity who are now the fortunate custodians. But here's the thing…. Age Uk didn't pay for Woodcot. It was given to them for nothing. Now they are trying to cash in by selling it. Morally, as a charity they should pass it on to another charity if they don't want to run it. Instead they are turfing out the residents who have lived there for over 20 years, all of whom are in their 80’s and paying lawyers thousands of pounds to overturn the covenant put on it precisely to stop that from happening! This campaign is to raise funds to save Woodcot frm being sold so that it can contuinue beuing used as it was always intedended, as it is stated in the covenant: as a residential home for the elderly Woodot came to them from Help The Aged, via Plymouth Guild of Social Service, via Voluntary Christian Service. So they got it for nothing. For free. Because Miss Jennnings sold her family home out of the kindness of her heart so that others less fortunate could benefit from it. That is what you call real charity. Miss Jennings gave Woodcot to charity in 1969, on condition that it could only be used as a residential home for the elderly. To make sure that it was always used for that purpose Miss Jennings and her team of lawyers placed a legal covenant on Woodcot to make sure that her wishes would be honoured and respected. Now AGE UK are trying to overturn her wishes. Unbelievably they are using their own charitable donations to pay lawyers to try and overturn the covenant so that they can cash in and sell Woodcot to the property developer neighbours for millions of pounds. Its utterly despicable of them. Using their own kind donors money to overturn a covenant which protects their own beneficiaries and which was drawn up in the first place to stop exactly that very thing form happening. For a charity that relies on people to leaves gifts in their wills it takes some gall….to then use those gifts contary to the express wishes of the donor. Instead Age Uk could and should play it forward. By passing it on to the next charity, Age Uk would be following in the footsteps of the all the previous chatities who did the right thin when it no longer worked for them. Not so Age UK they want to cash it in for millions of pounds. They are making a mockery of Miss Jennings wishes. The elderly residents who still live there, the town council and community of Salcombe are all pulling together to make sure that Age Uk do the decent, charitable thing and pass it on to the new charity in the spirit in which it was given to them. Free of charge. Salcombe old folk don't have enough places to live as it is, the loss of Woodcot will be catastrophic to the town. The beautiful gardens and woodland are open to the public and many local charities would lose a much loved venue for their fundraising events. Woodcot and Salcombe go hand in hand. Age Uk must respect that and pass it on to a charity who will run it properly. Instead they want to deprive another charity of benefiting as they have and at the same time deprive Salcombe elders of a place to live. Bit of background for you... Woodcot occupies some of the most valuable real estate in England. 18 Acres of Salcombe waterfront. It was given to charity in 1969 by Miss Elizabeth Jennnings on condition that it could only be used as a residential home for the elderly. There are two covenants tied to the property which make it impossible for the charity to simply sell it for profit. Current custodians, Age Uk are using their own charitable donations to try and overturn the covenant so that they can cash in and sell Woodcot to the property developer neighbours for millions of pounds. Enter the new charity which wants to take Woodcot on and run it properly not as an HMO but as it was always run before, by the previous charity's, as a care home for people at the end of their lives. So that they can benefit from the beautiful grounds and gardens just as Miss Jennings wanted it. It would give much needed employment to the people of salcombe and would mean that the public and visitors could enjoy the grounds and gardens as they do now.