A future for all our pasts

Helping our members save the UK’s heritage assets.

Our Organisation

Heritage Trust Network is a membership organisation full of people who have delivered amazing heritage projects against all the odds. Our mission is to help others do the same.

Heritage Network Trust

We operate throughout the United Kingdom, drawing together and supporting the work of local community groups who are working to restore, or are based out of, historic sites.

Heritage Trust Network provides an invaluable platform for our members by way of peer-to-peer support, knowledge sharing and skills development. Our guidance and advice helps groups throughout the lifetime of their project from start up to post completion. Just as importantly, Heritage Trust Network also gives this extraordinary grassroots movement a united voice, representing their views to government and funding bodies.

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Heritage Trust Network is here to help you ensure a future for all our pasts.

Our History

Heritage Trust Network is a registered charity. It is funded through membership and events income and grants from funders. Find out more about our funders.

Heritage Trust Network began life as the UK Association of Building Preservation Trusts in 1989 and continued to support members as UKAPT until 2016 when Heritage Lottery Funding allowed the organisation to transition.

Whilst retaining the same grassroots nature of UKAPT, Heritage Trust Network is able to support a wider range of built heritage projects, types of organisation and corporate supporters.

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It is the energy and enthusiasm of our members, staff and volunteers that gives Heritage Trust Network its strength!

Our Lobbying Role

The historic built environment is not uppermost on the political agenda. However, the last decade has seen an enormous increase in the number of consultation papers issued by government departments, the Heritage Lottery Fund and others. Heritage Trust Network consults with its members and responds on their behalf to government consultations, raising the profile of the building preservation trust movement as a whole.