The Voice of Spalding and South Holland
Moulton Mill has been given financial help from the government.
The historic windmill is again closed due to the lockdown.
But it’s been given £34,500 as part of the Culture Recovery Fund to help it with maintenance costs and to buy a new flour sieve to expand its homemade flours it sell to the public.
Janet Prescott, the Mill manager, said: “This funding is essential for buildings like ours, whilst we have been open since August our hours have been halved and the number of customers we could accommodate significantly reduced.
“Our income has been severely impacted by the first lockdown and now we are in lockdown again and do not expect to be open until the New Year.
“Like everyone else we still have our bills to pay and we still have to complete our maintenance or the building is at risk.
“It is a great responsibility for a volunteer group. This lifeline takes away some of those concerns and allows us to continue with our plans to install a sieve at the Mill so that we can increase the varieties of flour we sell.
“We are part of a research project with John Innes Institute and this will ensure that all of that great work can continue.”
The Mill is the tallest in the UK standing at over 100ft tall and was built in 1822 by Robert King. It is a listed building and is manned entirely by volunteers who live in the village and surrounding area. The building was recently licenced for weddings The Mill hopes to re-open in the New Year and more details can be found on the mill website www.moultonwindmill.co.uk.
More than £9 million has been allocated by the National Lottery Heritage Fund and Historic England on behalf of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, which builds on £103 million awarded to more significant historic places last month. Grants between between £10,000 and £1 million have been awarded to stabilise 77 organisations.
In addition, £5 million will go to construction and maintenance projects that have been paused due to the pandemic.
Historic England has allocated £3,971,513 in awards from the Heritage Stimulus Fund, part of a £120 million capital investment from the Culture Recovery Fund, to restart construction and maintenance projects facing delays or increased costs as a result of the pandemic and save specialist livelihoods in the sector.
74 organisations are also receiving grants of up to £25,000 from the Covid-19 Emergency Heritage at Risk Response Fund, launched by Historic England and almost quadrupled thanks to the Culture Recovery Fund, to cover maintenance and repairs urgently needed on historic buildings and sites up and down the country.
