As you know, Humph Hall has been effectively closed for public events since the beginning of March owing to Warringah Council's demand for new fire safety measures.

Gial and I will not be able to start inviting you into our home for concerts and other events again until these new measures have been implemented.

Unfortunately the cost for doing this is going to be a bit over $16,000. Many of you have been asking if there was anything you could do to help us - well now there is! :-)

I have established a project on Pozible.com called 'Help Humph Hall' to try and raise $8,000 - half the amount needed.

The idea is this - You go to the 'Help Humph Hall' project page where you'll find information about the project (including a 3 minute video message from me) and seven different amounts that you can pledge to donate ranging from $17 (enough to cover the required fire retardant treatment of one chair) to $1,000 which will be VERY HELPFUL INDEED and entitle you, and all of your friends and relations, to free entry to Humph Hall for a whole year! :-)

All or nothing - The project will close on Saturday 12th July. The way Pozible works is that if we don't achieve pledges covering the entire $8,000 then the project will fail and no money will be collected/raised! :-(

Spread the word - So please, if you can afford to do so, go to the site and pledge what you can and use your email/Facebook/Twitter accounts to encourage others to do likewise. Just tell them about it and send them this link: pozible.com/humph

Please act quickly - Apparently it is important for the success of these crowd-funding campaigns for them to begin with some momentum so, if you intend to add your support and make a pledge, please don't put it off - do it today!