Battle of Hatfield Investigation Society

Hello,

After much frowning, pursing of lips and general fidgeting we have now completed our Heritage Lottery Fund ("H.L.F.") on line application for just under £10,000 (last Friday (22nd August)).

The submissions end today (27th August) and we then have to wait up to 2 months to discover if we are successful.

This is for Phase 1 of the project, which is the non invasive work at St. Mary's and some surrounding land. This will involve Ground Penetrating Radar (G.P.R.) , Magnetometer surveys etc.. partly to discover where the burial pits are and to pinpoint future invasive activities.

However, the H.L.F. process is very competitive and they have, and I quote, "hundreds" of applications to contend with (and that's probably just at the English Heritage East Midlands office !).

We did spend quite a period considering the material that would inhabit the comprehensive forms and tended to come in only about 1 word under the maximum limit for each section, although, of course, that says nothing about the quality of our submission.

The very best we can hope for is that the Diocese of Southwell approve our request for non invasive activities at St. Mary's, Cuckney on the 8th September, followed at the earliest by a mid October affirmative from the H.L.F. .

Even then, our proposed start date of 1st November 2014 is slightly ambitious. This would involve 5 days on site activities plus 3 Community days.

There will be a (4th) Society meeting before any works ensue.

Practical things are happening !

All the best and we hope to see you on site soon ...

From all the team.