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Please also notify us. on 015394 63521 donation is made (the tax year begins on 6 April and fi nishes on 5 April the following year). www.wordsworth.org.uk How you can help I would like to subscribe to the Friends of the Wordsworth Trust at By joining the Friends of the Wordsworth Trust, you are helping to the following annual rate • preserve and enhance Dove Cottage, £25 Individual Membership the Collection and the historic environment £40 Joint Membership of Town End for future generations (2 adults with the same address) £45 Fam ily Membership (1 or 2 adults • give people of all ages the chance to and any number of children under 16, fulfi ll their creative potential living at the same address) • develop our education and lifelong learning £10 Young Person (under 26) programmes for the benefi t of the widest I would like to make an additional donation of: The work of the Wordsworth Trust possible audience. The total payment is • Our exhibitions and publications receive national recognition for the quality of their research and I enclose a cheque/postal order made payable presentation. To join, please complete the to ‘Dove Cottage Promotions’ form opposite and return to: Please deduct the amount from my credit/debit card • We put on approximately one hundred events a year, linking the creativity of the past with that of The Development Offi ce, the present. Exp Issue no. (Switch only) The Wordsworth Trust, Security code (last three digits on signature strip) • Our workshops attract thousands of children to Dove Cottage, Grasmere, I would like to pay by Direct Debit Grasmere annually. Cumbria, LA22 9SH. (please complete the form overleaf) I want the Wordsworth Trust to treat all subscriptions • Young people from all walks of life come to the and donations I make, until I notify you otherwise, as Wordsworth Trust to benefi t from the training Gift Aid donations. opportunities we off er. ‘ And certain hopes are with me, that to thee This labour will be welcome, honoured Friend’ Signed Date • We care for and preserve 22 properties, including Dove Cottage, within the Name For over a hundred years, the Wordsworth Trust has conservation area of Town End. Address provided a living memorial to the life and poetry of William Wordsworth and his contemporaries, and a Through your membership of the Friends, context for understanding and celebrating a major you help make this work possible. cultural moment in history. Tel. We uniquely combine a great writer’s home and his Email original works. Our Collection contains over 90% of Wordsworth’s surviving manuscripts, as well as original Additional details for Joint and Family Membership: works by many of his contemporaries, and is the driving Name of partner: force behind all our activities. Name(s) of children: As a registered charity (1066184), we greatly rely on the generosity of our supporters. Joining the Friends of the Date of birth: Wordsworth Trust gives you the opportunity to play a vital role in our future. Thomas Miles Richardson, Grasmere, c.1847.