The Overall Plan For Bodwannick
1. To apply for planning permission for two houses on the infill site, the sale of which would provide most of the capital needed to restore the farmhouse and create facilities for the disabled
2. To convert the small barn for which pre-planning approval already exists into a lecture room, wet weather shelter, kitchen and toilets.
3. To continue to build on the work already taking place with people from Bodmin Hospital and MIND who suffer from mental health disabilities. There is urgent demand for this but our existing facilities are woefully inadequate. The range of work undertaken includes creation of a wildlife garden, making bat and bird boxes, maintenance of conservation sites and growing vegetables for their ward in the Hospital. Feedback from the participants is heartwarming, for example "this is our gateway to heaven, relieving the stresses and strains of everyday life". The Hospital is within walking/cycling distance of Bodwannick.
4. Develop work with Hounds for Heroes providing facilities for disabled ex servicemen to stay along with their compatriots and bring their dogs for training, which would be provided by Bodmin Dog Club, who are already fundraisers for HfH.
5. Create a Peace Garden to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Armistice in 2018, a wonderfully therapeutic project for our volunteers.
6. Create a new permissive path through Bodwannick farm and, more ambitiously, join up the Saints Way (created by the forerunner of the Gaia Trust) via this new link with the Camel Trail, back to the Trust's Treraven Farm at Wadebridge. There is access through Treraven up to St Breock Downs and back on to the Sqints Way, making an extensive circular walk
7. As there is no similar facility in the area, create a camping barn in the stone and slate barns at Bodwannick
8. Create facilities for bat and birdwatching and cater for school field studies visits.
The Trust has carefully considered several other proposals for Bodwannick but has rejected these on the grounds that they could have been noisy or intrusive to our neighbours. We believe that what we are currently suggesting fits with the Government's sustainability agenda and will have little impact on nearby properties.
2. To convert the small barn for which pre-planning approval already exists into a lecture room, wet weather shelter, kitchen and toilets.
3. To continue to build on the work already taking place with people from Bodmin Hospital and MIND who suffer from mental health disabilities. There is urgent demand for this but our existing facilities are woefully inadequate. The range of work undertaken includes creation of a wildlife garden, making bat and bird boxes, maintenance of conservation sites and growing vegetables for their ward in the Hospital. Feedback from the participants is heartwarming, for example "this is our gateway to heaven, relieving the stresses and strains of everyday life". The Hospital is within walking/cycling distance of Bodwannick.
4. Develop work with Hounds for Heroes providing facilities for disabled ex servicemen to stay along with their compatriots and bring their dogs for training, which would be provided by Bodmin Dog Club, who are already fundraisers for HfH.
5. Create a Peace Garden to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Armistice in 2018, a wonderfully therapeutic project for our volunteers.
6. Create a new permissive path through Bodwannick farm and, more ambitiously, join up the Saints Way (created by the forerunner of the Gaia Trust) via this new link with the Camel Trail, back to the Trust's Treraven Farm at Wadebridge. There is access through Treraven up to St Breock Downs and back on to the Sqints Way, making an extensive circular walk
7. As there is no similar facility in the area, create a camping barn in the stone and slate barns at Bodwannick
8. Create facilities for bat and birdwatching and cater for school field studies visits.
The Trust has carefully considered several other proposals for Bodwannick but has rejected these on the grounds that they could have been noisy or intrusive to our neighbours. We believe that what we are currently suggesting fits with the Government's sustainability agenda and will have little impact on nearby properties.
The plans for Bodwannick manor farm have been developed through the Heritage Lottery Funded 'Transition Fund' grant that the Gaia Trust received in March 2015
