Rayska Heritage News
Dorset AONB wins Lottery Money with help from Rayska Heritage
( 10 / 1 / 2008 )
In May 2007 Sula Rayska of Rayska Heritage submitted a bid for £159,500 to the Heritage Lottery Fund in the South West to pay for work which will raise awareness of the immense importance of the ceremonial burial landscape of the South Dorset Ridgeway. Sula won the contract late in 2006 and worked with the AONB team let by Tom Munro to submit a robust bid. Everyone was delighted to hear in December that the bid was successful.
Forestry Commission asks Rayska Heritage to help with funding for "Grow with Wyre" project
( 4 / 9 / 2007 )
Rayska Heritage has been taken on by the Forestry Commission to support their Grow with Wyre Landscape Partnership project by helping with funding applications. The project already has a Stage 1 HLF pass and hopes to get its Stage 2 approval early in 2008.
Rayska Heritage Advises on Mrs Gaskell's House
( 19 / 7 / 2007 )
The Architectural Heritage Fund has asked Sula Rayska to advise the Manchester Historic Builds Trust on its efforts to save 84 Plymouth Grove, Manchester. It is the house where Elizabeth Gaskell wrote most of her novels and one of the last surviving Victorian villas of its type in the area.
Rayska Heritage to produce Hopton Castle Conservation Management Plan
( 13 / 5 / 2005 )
The Hopton Castle Preservation Trust has asked Rayska Heritage to produce the Conservation Management Plan for the castle which is being grant aided by the Heritage Lottery Fund through their West Midlands office, English Heritage and Shropshire County Council.
Rayska Heritage, heritage management consultants based in Shrewsbury, will be researching and writing part of the plan and also commissioning work from other specialists on archaeology, architecture, access and interpretation for the Castle. They will then bring it all together into a plan which will guide the future repair and maintenance of the castle, and at the same time ensure that it will be more accessible and better understood by the public.
'Countryfile' comes to Whittington
( 14 / 3 / 2005 )
Whittington Castle recently appeared on the BBC's Countryfile programme and heritage consultant Sula Rayska was interviewed by Michaela Strachan about her role in fundraising for the project to restore the castle and about the role the community has played in taking control of the castle.
As a result of the programme, over £650 has been sent to the Castle's appeal fund.
Heritage Consultants make successful bids to Heritage Lottery Fund
( 12 / 2 / 2005 )
Whittington Castle Preservation Trust in Shropshire have been granted a stage 1 pass for £950,000, with £25,000 of development funding, by the Heritage Lottery Fund after Heritage Consultant Sula Rayska submitted a bid on their behalf. Sula Rayska has been working as a Heritage Consultant since leaving the National Trust early in 2004. She has a 100% success rate so far with bids she has put in for lottery funding.
Lottery Cash for Whittington Castle
( 12 / 12 / 2004 )
Almost a million pounds of cash from the Heritage Lottery fund has been earmarked for Whittington Castle in Shropshire after a bit submitted by heritage consultant Sula Rayska was given a Stage 1 pass by the HLF committee for the West Midlands on 30 November 2004.
The money will be used to restore the gatehouse to the medieval castle, provide better access to the inner bailey by means of a new bridge on the site of the original one, create displays and interpretation of the castle's history and build a new tea room to provide a source of income for future maintenance.
The money has been welcomed by the Whittington Castle Preservation Trust and it is hoped work will start in the late spring of 2005.
Heritage Consultant Sula Rayska to help the Y Dolydd Restoration Project
( 21 / 10 / 2004 )
Sula Rayska has been appointed as Project Organiser to the Llanfyllin Dolydd Building Preservation Trust to help them in their aim of restoring the old workhouse, recently seen on the BBC's Restoration series. This is a very exciting multi-million pound project which will bring life back to the architecturally important and historically fascinating building on the outskirts of Llanfyllin, one of the old market towns of Montgomeryshire. Sula will be using her skills in project management, fund raising and conservation to ensure there is a successful outcome to the ambitions of the Trust.
Heritage Consultant on BBC Radio 4's 'Open Country'
( 26 / 8 / 2004 )
Sula Rayska of Rayska Heritage, Shropshire's leading Heritage Consultancy, will be appearing on BBC Radio 4's Open Country programme on Saturday 28 August and again the following Thursday. The programme features Flounders Folly, the tower in South Shropshire for which Sula Rayska has succeeded in raising enough funds to enable a full restoration. A large Heritage Lottery Fund grant together with funds from the Local Heritage Initiaitive and many other sources has raised over £300,000 and the work will be finished by the end of the year.
Heritage Consultants get more work in the West Midlands
( 1 / 8 / 2004 )
Rayska Heritage, the leading firm of Heritage Consultants in the West Midlands is getting more and more work. Rayska Heritage is now working for Flounders Folly, the Stockport Plaza Trust, the Hermon Chapel in Oswestry and Whittington Castle, a Grade I listed castle in West Shropshire. Rayska Heritage can provide project management, fundraisng skills, advice on architectural and surveying requirements as well as historical research.
Rayska Heritage's role in campaign to restore Hermon Chapel
( 1 / 8 / 2004 )
Sula Rayska of Rayska Heritage has been commissioned to undertake publicity and fundraising work for the Hermon Chapel in Oswestry. The Grade II* listed building needs over £350,000 of work to restore it to its original condition. The Hermon Chapel Preservation Trust has recently been formed to raise funds undertake the restoratiion work, in partnership with the Oswestry Townscape Heritage Initiative and the Family Harvest Church.
Rayska Heritage will promote the campaign in the media and submit fundraising applications on behalf of the Trust.
Project Planning Grant awarded to the Stockport Plaza
( 18 / 7 / 2004 )
A project planing grant of £49,000 has been awarded to the Stockport Plaza Super Cinema by the Heritage Lottery Fund, as a result of an application submitted by Sula Rayska of Rayska Heritage on behalf of the Stockport Plaza Trust.
This will enable the Trust to have a Conservation Plan drawn up for the detailed restoration work needed at the Plaza. It will also pay for an Access Plan and an Audience Development Plan and pay for a part time project manager to be appointed to carry the project forward.
The whole project will cost several million pounds, but this grant is an excellent piece of news and an important step towards the restoration.
Green Tourism Seminars a great success!
( 3 / 4 / 2004 )
The three seminars on Green and Sustainable Tourism presented by Sula Rayska to tourism businesses at three West Midlands locations have been a great success. Organised by the Regional Centre for Tourism Business Support, Sula joined other speakers at Worcester, Lichfield and Alton Towers. She was pleased that many people told her they had found her messages inspirational and would try to make better efforts to live by sustainable values in future.
One attendee later wrote "I enjoyed your talk very much at Alton Towers yesterday, I would love to be entirely 'green' and am progressing towards it slowly. Everytime I hear a talk like yours I get inspired to do a bit more, I am very proud of the fact that I do have a few customers that come back to our cottages specifically because of our good recycling facilities, but we could do more about resorcing, so please keep inspiring us."
If you know of a group who would like a presentation on Green and Sustainable Tourism please contact Sula Rayska on 01743 236914 or by e-mail, sula.rayska@virgin.net.
Rayska Heritage contributes to Tourism Seminars
( 29 / 2 / 2004 )
Sula Rayska of Rayska Heritage is contributing to a series of seminars organised by Advantage West Midlands's Tourism Support Unit. Her presentation on "Sustainable Tourism - How to make your Tourism Business Leaner, Greener and Meaner" has already been given at the Worcester Rugby Club to an audience from Worcestershire and Herefordshire. The next event is at the Millenium Arboretrum, Lichfield on 16th March.
Flounders Folly Woodcraft Day a Great Success
( 13 / 11 / 2003 )
Volunteers helped to make light work of improving the hazel hedgerow at Flounders' Folly on the recent woodcraft day on Sunday 2 November. 55 new plants of hazel, blackthorn and quickthorn were planted to gap up the hedgerow and many of the existing trees were coppiced and trimmed to help future growth so that the hedge can be laid in a few years' time.
Despite cold winds and occasional showers the volunteers all thoroughly enjoyed the day and made a great difference to the environment of the folly. Sula Rayska, in her rôle as project manager, said: "this sort of exercise really shows how local volunteers can make a difference".
Website Launched
( 10 / 11 / 2003 )
The Rayska Heritage webite, rayskaheritage.com, was launched on 5 November 2003, establishing our online presence. Rayska Heritage is a forward-looking company and our website will act as a point of contact for our clients and as an efficient source of news regarding the company and the projects we are involved with.
Rayska Heritage to be established
( 10 / 11 / 2003 )
Sula Rayska is a Chartered Surveyor with a wealth of experience in the fields of restoration and management of heritage projects as well as in the Property Management department at a major local council. Currently working part time for the National Trust as Area Manager for Cheshire and Greater Manchester, Sula Rayska has recently decided to establish her own heritage consultancy company. She is already undertaking a limited amount of freelance work and Rayska Heritage will be launched formally this winter.