COAM Big Community Ask

Traditional horse and cart in front of a small red tin church and a small thatched cottage at Chiltern Open Air Museum

As the season of giving approaches, we’re asking our community to dig deep to support us. With costs continually rising and a lot of wet weather this year (which is not good if you’re an outdoor museum) generating the income to keep operating as we are has become more challenging.

We are an independent charity and any income that we raise goes back into keeping the museum operating and enabling us to continue our conservation and community work.

This year we are asking our community to purchase an item or two from our wish list. We have put together an wish list of items that we require. These items don’t have to be purchased via Amazon, Amazon just had the function to allow us to put our list together. There is also an additional list below of items that couldn’t be added to the list or are of a higher value for those that may wish to help us a bit more.

Any support is gratefully received.

Our Wish List

Take a peek at our Amazon wish List and send as a gift to help support us. Items can be purchased from sites other than Amazon and sent C/O Helen Light, Chiltern Open Air Museum, Newland Park, Gorelands Lane, Chalfont St Giles, Bucks, HP8 4AB.

If you purchase something outside of Amazon, remember to remove it from the list or drop our General Manager, Helen Light an email on helen.light@coam.org.uk so that we can remove it.

Additional wish list Items

If you’d like to gift us an item from this list, then please contact Helen Light, COAM General Manager on helen.light@coam.org.uk or on 01494 871 117.

Sponsorship of events, activities and interpretation

You could help us by sponsoring or covering costs of activities on site.

  • Sponsor one of our special events starting from £150

  • Sponsor the material costs for family trails from £50

  • Cover the costs of illustrations, design and print of 1 large and 8 small interpretation panels on heritage hops £1,428

  • Cover the print costs of x37 A4 building interpretation panels £345

Larger donations

If you’re in a position to offer a larger gift, the following items would help to support COAM.
Please contact Helen Light, COAM General Manager on helen.light@coam.org.uk or on 01494 871 117 if you’d like to help.

  • An electric passenger golf buggy that can transport a wheelchair user

  • Cover livestock feed, vet and welfare costs for a year £9,000

  • An additional till and payment equipment for our front of house facilities £2,000

  • Core cost to support our education, interpretation and conservation work £20,000

Cash donations

If you’d like to support us by making a cash donation, you can do this by clicking on the link below. If you’d like to make a larger donation then please contact Helen Light, COAM General Manager on helen.light@coam.org.uk or 01494 871 117.

As an independent charity, our Museum relies on the generosity of individuals like you. Our buildings need continually looking after and all funds raised are invested back into the Museum. Your contribution, whether big or small, ensures the continuous enjoyment of this unique space for everyone. If you're a UK taxpayer, please choose to Gift Aid at the checkout, this will amplify your admission, membership or donation by an additional 25% and will give us us a vital bit of additional income at no extra cost to you.

Thank you for being a vital part of our mission to maintain the museum's special place in history and community.