Our Fund Raising Committee were tasked with raising £20,000 in the 03-04 and 04-05 Rotary years. This would be matched by Lincolnshire County Council giving £40,000 in total for the refurbishment of
The Stamford Public Library. A meeting was arranged of the Fund Raising Committee with Tony Clark, the Editor of the Mercury who gave us his full support. The support of The Stamford Mercury enabled us to arouse interest in the town and with our own considerable fund raising efforts combined with contributions from Stamford townspeople we had raised £10,500 before the beginning of the 04-05 Rotary Year. At this point Lincolnshire County Council stepped in to say that they felt that recognising the great interest we had aroused in the town of Stamford they were prepared to add £50,000 to what we had raised to give a total sum of over £60,000 for the refurbishment of the Library. Thus our Club had acted as a catalyst for the raising of this large sum. I am greatly indebted to my team for this effort . I also feel that without the support of The Mercury we would not have achieved this result.

Although the funds we directly raised totaled just over £21,000 we can credit ourselves with a further £50,00 which we initiated.
This project has now been completed with a grant from The Skells Trust of Stamford with the painting and cleaning of the outside of the building October 2006 which will officially be opened by the lady Mayor in December 2006 (date to be arranged)