THE MILL and Rural Life Museum in Bishop’s Lydeard has been working hard raising money for five different causes.
Owners of the museum, Charlie and Yvonne Back and their daughter Abigail Cook met with Bob Hart, former medical director of St Margaret’s Hospice, to present the cheques to the five charities that had been selected.
Mrs Back said: “The mill is well worth a visit with its many manikins and different rural life trades such as blacksmith, ironmonger, wheelwright, Victorian kitchen, as well as a transport museum, gypsy caravan and so much more.
“Even the tea room has home made cakes suitable for coeliacs, so no wheat or gluten ...which for a mill is pretty good.”
The five charities chosen were Sure (Somerset Unit for Radiotherapy Equipment), Cancer UK, Macmillan, St Margaret’s Hospice and The Open Door, a homeless charity in Taunton.
Each charity received £2,600 of the £13,000 raised by the mill this year.
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