Campaigners hope the farm where Robert Burns wrote Auld Lang Syne can be saved with an international fundraising appeal seeking to raise £12 million.

Scotland’s bard built Ellisland Farm, near Dumfries, in Dumfries and Galloway, himself aged 29, as a home for his wife and children.

The Category A-listed building was built in 1788, and Burns wrote many of his most noted poems there including Tam O Shanter, and My Heart’s In The Highlands, but in recent years it has suffered from damp, decay and structural deterioration.

The Robert Burns Ellisland Trust formed in 2020 to save the site and has recreated it in Minecraft, generated revenue with holiday accommodation and restored the Burns Family Flute so it can be played after centuries.

It has plans to conserve the site, which was awarded

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