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We have four key priority areas for our funds.
1. Caring for and conserving the Manor is the Trust’s first charitable object. Rising energy costs will only increase the financial burden on the Trust and regular repairs and renewals are costly.
2. We want to restore Sulgrave’s Grade II listed gardens to include designs of Sir Reginald Blomfield, RA, from the early 1920s. We also want to showcase American plants and their impact on British Gardens. The Trust finances the gardens’ running costs, but our ambitions for new beds and borders, hedging and stonework, and equipment need donors’ support to implement.
3. Sulgrave’s Manor and gardens deserve to be preserved in their own right. But what matters most about Sulgrave is its unique story as George Washington’s ancestral home, and how he was shaped by the Washington family values passed down to him through the generations from Lawrence Washington at Sulgrave Manor. Sulgrave tells a story about America’s origins in the heart of a rural country made rich by wool production and trading in Tudor England.
We want to expand the stories we tell about the lives of Lawrence Washington and his descendants at Sulgrave from 1539, to John Washington who emigrated to Virginia in 1631 and to his great-grandson, George, who became the Republic’s first President.
Donors’ support will be vital in helping us share these stories with new diverse audiences.
4. We want to use our stories and collections to help visitors to think about the importance of the special relationship between America and Britain and why co-operation between different people is still so important in today’s world and for the future. We want to encourage debate about tolerance the challenges of understanding differences, and about working together to help us all to play full and active roles in our own communities.
