We are grateful to all our #volunteers for the time and effort they put into helping the museum. This is Roy, in his own words:
"I first read Bevis at Sanford Street School back in the 1950s and was enchanted by it.
Then around 20 years ago on a rainy day in winter I found the museum was open and went in and bought another copy of Bevis.
"Since then I have spent many hundreds of days helping out or reading about the museum and all the great things that it does from holding local events to helping children to learn about nature.
I was proud to be allowed to pay for the blue plaque that was deservedly warranted after all those years to the World's greatest nature writer, a man from Swindon.
"Then when the garden make over project was being conceived, I realised that a second hand glass house held all sorts of problems for the team but a new one solved them all so once again I was able to help in my own little way.
I take a great deal of pleasure in going to the Sunday music events and taking pictures of each performer knowing that the museum is giving many young players a leg up the ladder whilst bringing joy to those that sit in the garden with their cream teas in the sunshine.
"A huge thank you to all the volunteers that make all this possible, without them we would have nothing."
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"The sward on the path on which Bevis used to lie and gaze up in the summer evening, was real, and tangible; the earth under was real; and so too the elms, the oak, the ash-trees, were real and tangible—things to be touched, and known to be."
Bevis: The Story of a Boy
Richard Jefferies Museum