The Trustees of Northwood House Charitable Trust are carrying out a public consultation into the future of the House and Park. The consultation will be concerned with the future structure of the Charity and plans to save the House and finance the future of the House and Park. It is being carried out at the recommendation of the Charity Commission and the Trustees hope that it will be a wide, constructive and positive exercise.

The consultation paper, ‘The Future of Northwood House & Park’, is available here, along with a letter from the Chair of the Trustees. A paper copy is available for viewing at Cowes Library, together with questionnaires. Paper copies are also available from the Trustees: please email trustees@northwoodhouse.org to arrange.

To respond to the consultation, either complete our online survey form or download a pdf version which can be completed and either scanned and returned by email or posted to the Trustees at Northwood House, Ward Avenue, COWES PO31 8AZ. Longer submissions are also welcome - they should be no more than 1,000 words in length and can be either emailed to the Trustees (preferred) or delivered in hardcopy.

To view the two reports mentioned in the consultation document - the Knight Frank report entitled 'Preliminary Options Appraisal for Northwood House and Park' and the Scott Wilson report entitled 'Northwood Park Restoration Management Plan' - click here .

10 July 2011: the responses to the recent consultation paper on the future of Northwood House and Park are now in and are being considered. Click here for a summary of the data on the various questions posed in the paper; and here for the 'free text' comments made by respondents. Please note that a number of comments were personally insulting to some of the Trustees and Advisers (mostly from anonymous respondents) and these have been removed from the document.