How To Join the Rayleigh Town Museum Friends Group.

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High St circa 1880
High St circa 1880

Lets start 2015 by looking at one of the big projects in Rayleigh this year – a town museum – and how you can join the Friends Group.

What is the purpose of the Rayleigh Town Museum Friends Group?

To give support for the continuing development of the Museum and at the same time to make new friends with similar interests

What advantages and privileges do members of the Friends receive?
? Regular newsletters
? 10% discount on items in the Museum shop
? Reduced ticket prices for talks and events
? Reduced fees for the private hire of the Museum.
? Invitations to pre opening of events
? The sooner you join, the longer your initial membership will last (see below).

Early Membership Incentive
Those joining now will be entitled to extended initial membership as a tangible sign of their support in the formation of the Museum. (N.B. No payments will be actioned until 1stMay 2015.) In addition, those joining before the Museum opens will be known as ?Founding Members?.

Membership is from 1st May each year.
Annual single membership ?10 *
Family membership (at same address) ?15 *

If you want to join, we suggest you email rayleightownmuseum@tesco.net

The latest on the museum is as follows:

As many of you will be aware we have plans to open a Rayleigh Town Museum on the 1st floor of 91 High Street, Rayleigh. The clothing shop ?Yours? will probably be vacating early in 2015 and the whole building will then be refurbished and a fully disabled access passenger lift and toilet will be installed to the 1st floor. Pizza Express will be opening a restaurant on the ground floor. The Planning Application has been agreed by Rochford District Council, Listed Building consent has been agreed with Essex County Council and we have submitted an application to the Heritage Lottery Fund for a grant to cover our set up costs…. Unfortunately the application has been declined. However we will be having a debriefing meeting with the HLF and resubmitting our application in January.
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Further information and updates are available on the Rayleigh Town Museum website (www.rayleightownmuseum.co.uk), our Facebook page (link on our Home page), the Rayleigh Town Museum Facebook page (Facebook.com/rayleightownmuseum) and the notice board in the High Street on the wall by the Millennium Clock.

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  • I do hope the people of Rayleigh will support Mike. He works very hard on behalf of our town & the addition of a museum would bring many benefits to the whole community.
    It would also be an asset to shops & tea rooms, as hopefully people visiting the one would also use the other.
    There is an old saying, if you want to look into the future, look into the past! We can learn a lot by studying history. Today’s progress is based on what previous generations learnt.
    So here’s wishing Mike & his colleagues all the best in their re-application for a lottery Grant.
    We look forward to seeing the Museum up & running.

  • YES – more positive news this week , Lottery Funding (£90K) approved for the Rayleigh Museum – up and running by end of 2015 , brilliant effort by those involved.

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