Volunteer Building Day
Our next Straw Bale Build volunteer day is Sat 14th July from 9am to 4pm
Our next Straw Bale Build volunteer day is Sat 14th July from 9am to 4pm
It was always our plan to build with load-bearing straw walls. Our design team at Straw Works still believe it would be possible, but our Engineer at Renaissance has said “No.” Apparently, the 10m span across the hall would be too wide to support the upper floor and roof. Instead, Helen, our engineer has designed…
Yesterday, Hendy and Richard laid out the plans for our building in mesh barrier fencing on site. This was done ahead of our site visit with the Diocesan Advisory Committee and others on Tuesday. We’re glad to say that it all fits on the ground exactly as our drawings say it should! Not a bad…
Only another 46 bricks of florists’ foam to cut into 8… A bit more wood chopping, then pack it all away to be created at the Holy Trinity School Fair. To represent hazel pins, we’ll be using kebab sticks (not shown here). If it all comes together without all falling down it will be quite…
An amazing £10,000 (including Gift Aid) has been raised through Richard’s marathon, thanks to generous sponsorship and commitment by all the runners. A number of donations came in the post from people we didn’t know at all. One of the most amazing was from an elderly lady who had read about our project in the…
The past year has been a period of slow but steady activity on our Straw Bales project with a very small number of volunteers. One of several aspects we’ve been working on is Airtightness, and we’ve just released 4 short films on the subject: