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Bringing Ashton Court Mansion into community ownership. We're fundraising to secure the lease in Autumn 2026. Community share offer coming soon. Heritage.

Creativity. Community. A place for everyone. 🏛️ Visit Ashtoncourtmansion.org

17/10/2026

**4 DAYS TO GO. 🏛️**

What will life at Ashton Court Mansion look like?

We’re imagining a Mansion full of life. Somewhere to eat, learn, make, explore, discover something new or simply spend time.

Our community programme will be built around five pillars:

🍽️ **Food** – Bringing people together through growing, cooking, eating and sharing food.

🛠️ **Skills** – Opportunities to learn, make, create and develop new skills.

🏛️ **Heritage** – Exploring the Mansion’s extraordinary history and getting hands-on with its future.

🎨 **Culture & Arts** – Making space for creativity, exhibitions, performances and artistic expression.

🌿 **Nature & Outdoors** – Connecting people with the remarkable landscape, wildlife and green spaces of Ashton Court.

These five pillars will guide the activities, partnerships and projects we develop as more of the Mansion comes back into use.

But they’re a starting point, not a finished programme. We want the people who use and care about the Mansion to help shape what happens here.

**4 days until you can help shape what happens inside these walls.**

Our community share offer launches 21 October.

16/10/2026

**5 DAYS TO GO. 🏛️**

What can £100 get you these days?

☕ About 25 coffees.
🍸 10 cocktails.
🍕 One takeaway where you got a bit carried away.

Or, from 21 October, a share in the future of a 600-year-old Mansion.

That’s right. **£100 is the minimum investment in our community share offer**, giving you lifetime membership of Ashton Court Mansion Trust.

No annual subscription. No renewal fees. Just a genuine say in the future of one of Bristol’s most extraordinary buildings.

And unlike those 25 coffees, you can still be talking about this one in 20 years.

Of course, £100 is just the starting point. We’re aiming to raise £500,000 to help secure the Mansion’s future, and every investment brings us closer.

**Five days until you can own a share in its future.**

Community shares are fully at risk. You could lose some or all of your investment. We don’t anticipate paying interest or allowing withdrawals for at least 20 years.

15/10/2026

**6 DAYS TO GO.**

So, you get to tell people you own a Mansion. (Well, kind of.)

But what else?

Quite a lot, actually.

When you invest in community shares, you become a member of Ashton Court Mansion Trust. And that means having a real say in what happens next.

🏛️ Help shape the Mansion’s regeneration and how its spaces are used.

🎨 Join project groups developing everything from community activities to bringing rooms back to life.

🗳️ Vote at our AGM and in Board elections. You can even stand for election yourself.

🌱 Help shape our programme of food, skills, heritage, culture and nature activities.

🙌 Get involved, volunteer and help make it all happen.

And the best bit? **One member, one vote.** Whether you invest £100 or £10,000, your say counts just as much.

This isn’t an investment designed to make you rich. We don’t anticipate paying interest or allowing share withdrawals for at least 20 years, and your money is at risk.

It’s about having a stake in the future of one of Bristol’s most extraordinary buildings.

**Our community share offer launches 21 October.**

14/10/2026

7 days until you can be part of something big.

Just how big are we thinking?

£500,000 big.

That’s how much we’re aiming to raise through our community share offer, launching on 21 October.

But here’s something important: we’re not raising £500,000 to pay for the major building works. The full regeneration of Ashton Court Mansion will require tens of millions of pounds.

This is about building the organisation that will make that regeneration possible.

The money will provide the start-up capital to get Ashton Court Mansion Trust and its operations established properly.

That means recruiting the people we need, developing community programmes, bringing events and activities into the Mansion, attracting visitors and building the commercial income that will help sustain it.

Crucially, it will also put us in a position to pursue the major grants and investment needed to begin regenerating the building itself.

We can’t regenerate the Mansion without first building the organisation capable of delivering and sustaining that regeneration.

First, we build the organisation. Then, we regenerate the Mansion.

Our community share offer launches 21 October, when the full investment details, terms and risks will be available.

www.ashtoncourtmansion.org

13/10/2026

8 days until you can help secure the future of a mansion.
600 years of history. But what happens next?

Ashton Court Mansion has seen a lot over the centuries. Grand parties, generations of families, two world wars and, eventually, a new life in public ownership.

But for decades, much of this extraordinary Grade I listed building has been underused, deteriorating and waiting for a sustainable future.

We think it’s time for a new chapter.
We’re working to secure a 125-year lease from Bristol City Council, with a plan to turn the Mansion into a thriving place for food, culture, heritage, learning, creativity and community life.

A place that welcomes people in. That gives the building a purpose. And that generates the income needed to look after it for generations to come.

But a vision alone won’t make it happen.

That’s why we’re launching a £500,000 community share offer on 21 October.

The money won’t pay for the major building works. Those will require millions more in funding.

Instead, it will help us build the organisation, develop activities, attract audiences, grow income and raise the funds needed for the Mansion’s long-term regeneration.
Because saving Ashton Court Mansion isn’t just about looking after its past.

It’s about giving it a future.
21 October.

www.ashtoncourtmansion.org

12/10/2026

9 days until you can invest in a mansion.
But what exactly is a community share?

Well, it’s not quite like buying shares in a company.
Community shares allow people to come together and invest in something they believe in. They’ve helped communities across the country take on pubs, shops, football clubs and historic buildings.

And now, we’re bringing them to Ashton Court Mansion.
When you invest, you become a member of Ashton Court Mansion Trust, the organisation working to secure the Mansion’s future.

You’ll have a say in how the Trust is run, with one member, one vote, regardless of how much you invest.
You won’t own a particular room (sorry), or even a little bit of the building. Bristol City Council will retain the freehold, while we’re working towards a 125-year lease to regenerate and operate the Mansion for community benefit.

And this isn’t an investment designed to make you rich. We don’t anticipate paying interest or allowing withdrawals for the foreseeable future. Instead, our ambition is to reinvest surpluses into the Mansion and the activities it will support.

It’s about what we can make happen together.

On 21 October, we’ll launch our community share offer, giving you the opportunity to be part of the next chapter in the Mansion’s 600-year history.

We’ll publish the full investment details and risks at launch. As with any community share investment, your capital is at risk and you could lose some or all of the money you invest.

The Mansion has plenty of history. Now let’s make some more.

www.ashtoncourtmansion.org

11/10/2026

On 21 October, we’re launching our community share offer. And we’re asking Bristol, North Somerset and anyone who cares about the idea of taking a Grade I dilapidated Mansion and turning it into a community asset to help us raise £500,000 to secure the future of Ashton Court Mansion.

We have a plan to give this extraordinary building a new lease of life. A place to eat, learn, work, create, celebrate and explore. Somewhere that belongs to everyone.
But a building like this needs more than a big vision. It needs an organisation capable of making it happen.
That’s what the £500,000 is for.

It will help us build our community programme, bring people and organisations together, attract visitors, develop commercial activities that generate income, and build the fundraising capacity needed to secure millions of pounds for the Mansion’s long-term regeneration.

In other words, we’re not asking you to pay for the building works. We’re asking you to help build the organisation that will make them possible.

And by investing in community shares, you’ll become a member of Ashton Court Mansion Trust, with a vote and a say in what happens next.

One member. One vote. A shared ambition for one of Bristol’s most extraordinary buildings.

600 years down. What happens next?
That’s up to all of us.

Community share offer launches 21 October.

www.ashtoncourtmansion.org

06/10/2026

We’ve been in Ashton Court Mansion since May. But it doesn’t have a secure future yet

Ashton Court Mansion is owned by Bristol City Council. We’re here under a temporary tenancy at will, opening the doors, testing ideas and starting to bring more life back into the building.

But the long-term future still needs to be secured.

On 21 October, we launch our Community Share Offer, giving people the chance to become members of Ashton Court Mansion Trust and invest in the Mansion’s future.
Then, on 16 November, Bristol City Council will vote on the principle of granting us a 125-year lease.

We need both.

The lease. And people behind us.

Help restore Ashton Court Mansion. For good.

04/10/2026

New name. Same big job.

Bristol Historic Buildings Trust is now Ashton Court Mansion Trust.
The new name makes our purpose clearer. Ashton Court Mansion has been at the heart of the organisation from the beginning, and now our name reflects that.

But this is more than a change of name. We’ve also changed our structure, becoming a Charitable Community Benefit Society, creating a way for people to become members and have a stake in what happens next.

And the next few weeks really matter.

On 21 October, we’ll launch our Community Share Offer, giving people the opportunity to invest in the future of Ashton Court Mansion and become members of the Trust.

Then, on 16 November, Bristol City Council will vote on the principle of granting us the long-term lease we need to take the Mansion on.
We need both: the lease and the money to make it work.

There’s a long way to go, but this is a big step towards putting Ashton Court Mansion on a sustainable footing and bringing more of this extraordinary building back into use.

600 years down. What happens next?
That’s something we can all have a hand in.

ashtoncourtmansion.org

30/09/2026

Surveyors. Engineers. Builders. Conservation specialists. Architects. We’d like to show you around.

On Tuesday 13 October, we’re opening Ashton Court Mansion for two special behind the scaffold tours for people working across Bristol and the West of England’s built environment. Sign up here - https://lnkd.in/eAQ4ruWV

We are working towards taking on this Grade I listed building under a long-term lease and beginning the substantial programme of regeneration needed to secure its future.

It is a fascinating building - and a complicated one.

We want to start building relationships with the people and organisations whose skills, experience and ideas could help us tackle what comes next, especially those with conservation building skills. We still need to raise significant funds and secure the lease of Ashton Court Mansion - but support of people and organisations will be key to making this happen.

Come inside, see the building, hear about the plans and meet some of the team behind the project.

Tuesday 13 October
2.30pm | 5.30pm
Ashton Court Mansion
Free – booking required

https://lnkd.in/eAQ4ruWV

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