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FRIENDS OF ELVASTON - NAME EXTENDED
28 January 2006
Following a final AGM on Friday, January 27th, the
Elvaston Castle Estate Trust (of which the Friends of
Elvaston was originally a sub-committee), decided that it
had exhausted all avenues open to it in its attempts to
prevent Derbyshire County Council from disposing of
Elvaston Castle Country Park. The Friends of Elvaston
split from the Trust recently because of differences in
the way we would like to see the Estate handled. The
Elvaston Castle Estate Trust was prepared to go forward
with private companies which wanted a return on their
money.
The ethos of the Friends has always been to try and
ensure that the Estate belongs to the community in its
entirety and that all profits must be returned towards
its improvement. We had been invited to last night’s
final meeting in order to resolve some internal matters
that had arisen due to our parting of the ways.
The Elvaston Castle Estate Trust was dissolved and is,
therefore, no longer in existence.
The Friends, or to give them their full title, The
Friends of Elvaston Castle (FOE) has decided that under
these circumstances we would extend our own title, even
though we may still use our abbreviated form in
day-to-day matters. From Saturday, January 28th, 2006,
The Friends full title will be;
‘The
Friends of Elvaston Castle And Estate Trust’
(FOECAET)
In this way, the Friends
hopes to better reflect its own pursuit of fighting the
injustice of the attempted disposal of the Estate by
Derbyshire County Council to a private company.
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