JUST six months after the launch of the innovative Meadow Farm Wool Project Annie Musgrove and Jane Allberry are writing their first cheques to brain injury charity Headway and the Teenage Cancer Trust.

The project, based on a smallholding near Wellington and launched in January, processes fleeces from the farm’s Jacob sheep into knitting wool in natural shades. Knitters can lease a sheep for a year and the knitter is rewarded with balls of Jacob wool, spun by a small traditional Yorkshire mill.

This has proved popular with knitters in the UK and abroad, with wool being sent to France and California. All the profits go to support these charities.

For the full story, see this week’s Wellington Weekly News.