We are very excited to have been awarded funding from the The National Lottery Heritage Fund’s Digital Skills for Heritage initiative for a one-year Digital Heroes project. This project will launch a new stream of digital volunteering by linking young people with small and medium-sized heritage organisations in need of…

The Heritage Trust Network is recruiting for a new post of Heritage Trainee (Graduate) for a fixed term of 6 months. This post has been designed to help the successful graduate develop on-the-job skills and knowledge to help them gain early-career access to the heritage sector. Working alongside our staff…

Experience Heritage brings history to life, recreating the past and helping audiences experience “what might it have been like?” through interactive digital storytelling. With backgrounds in heritage as well as digital media creation, they translate complicated tech speak into interpretation solutions that are suitable for the specific needs of heritage environments….

Heritage Trust Network is pleased to announce that it has joined the Alliance to Reduce Crime against Heritage (ARCH). ARCH is a voluntary national network of members who have a shared interest in preventing heritage crime.  Unfortunately, each year a number of HTN’s members are victims of such crime so we…

HTN Scotland branch members, Boleskine House Foundation have recently launched a fundraiser to “create the largest and most diverse wildflower meadow in the Loch Ness area, with a new vista viewpoint and 180 degree Loch views”. The group managed to reach their goal within two hours of launching, but more…

On Friday 3rd September 2021, Heritage Lincolnshire welcomed back their previous CEO, Liz Bates to The Old King’s Head. Liz had not seen the project that she started over 5 years ago since she left the Trust in May 2019. It had been two years since she has stepped on…

Following a successful trustee recruitment drive earlier this year, Heritage Trust Network is delighted to announce the appointment of five new trustees to the board. In a ground-breaking move the Network positively encouraged younger people to apply and has been successful in appointing one trustee and two trainee trustees who…

Wentworth Woodhouse in Rotherham is among 142 historic sites across England set to receive grants totalling £35 million through the government’s Culture Recovery Fund Funding of £542,500 will pay for vital roof repairs to the South Pavillion on the Grade I listed mansion’s famed Palladian East Front. The grant has…

For the third year running, The National Lottery Heritage Fund has sponsored the Sustainable Project of the Year category at the Museum + Heritage Awards. The award has been developed in response to the current climate and ecological emergency and will shine a light on an outstanding environmentally sustainable project or exhibition staged by a heritage or cultural organisation in the…

Standing in the heart of the historic village of Kirton, The Old King’s Head was a hub of the community for centuries. Now with the support of Heritage Lincolnshire and the National Lottery Heritage Fund the 16th-century, Grade II listed building was reopened on the 1st October. Through fundraising and…

You’ve heard of Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel; now Wentworth Woodhouse has the Sixteen Chapel. Sixteen volunteers at Rotherham stately home Wentworth Woodhouse are being celebrated – in images on the ceiling of the mansion’s chapel. Their pictures are the work of two local artists who are members of Rotherham Open Arts…

The Board of the Heritage Trust for the North West are delighted to announce they have recently appointed a new Chief Executive Officer. Liz Moss, who is well known in the heritage sector, took over the position on 1st October and brings with her a breadth of skills and experience…

A fundraising dinner for the Sussex Heritage Trust Over one hundred guests enjoyed a black-tie dinner at Parham House on Thursday 14th October. £20,000 was raised in funds for the work of the Sussex Heritage Trust, to support the conservation and heritage movement in Sussex. Parham is one of the country’s…

Luton Heritage Forum is inviting local residents to share and celebrate their individual stories and memories of the town, by contributing to a new ‘people’s archive’ of Luton. Designed to capture the hidden history of the town, the archive sits within the Heritage Forum’s new website, which boasts enhanced functionality including…

SAVE Britain’s Heritage has submitted an application to list the Victorian station house at Weeley Station on Essex’s historic Tendring Line from Colchester to Walton, which is threatened with demolition by train operator Abellio Greater Anglia. The application submitted to Historic England to assess Weeley for listing includes evidence shedding…

Another rainy night in Rotherham, another 180 buckets overflowing with rainwater in the steadily decaying 18th century rooms at Wentworth Woodhouse. When the Preservation Trust took over the Grade I listed stately home in March 2017 with just six staff, emptying the buckets and mopping up was one of many…

The Surrey Heritage Awards 2022 will celebrate building conservation work carried out in Surrey between 2018 and 2021. There are many amazing heritage projects taking place around the county – and the Surrey Historic Buildings Trust (SHBT) would like to hear about them. There are two main categories of award…

Visions of Climate Heritage competition launched in response to the climate emergency Historic Environment Scotland (HES) has asked the public to submit photographs or artwork showcasing the impact of climate change on Scotland as part of its Visions of Climate Heritage competition which launches tomorrow (Wednesday 6 October). Visions of…

Excellent design, architecture and craftmanship were the winners at the 2021 Sussex Heritage Trust Awards. Thirty Award winning projects were announced at the 2021 Sussex Heritage Trust Awards on Wednesday 15th September. Chairman of the Sussex Heritage Trust, Simon Knight presented the Awards to a sold-out ceremony and lunch at…

Catherine Bailey’s best-selling book Black Diamonds brought the plight of Wentworth Woodhouse and its fascinating story to worldwide attention. Now the author has again put pen to paper to help revive the Grade I listed Rotherham mansion’s fortunes. Catherine has created The Black Diamonds Tour, which takes visitors through the…

The North East Scotland Preservation Trust (NESPT) is working hard to convert two derelict buildings in the centre of Fraserburgh into a hotel. Phase 1 of the project is due for completion at the end of November, with phase 2 continuing into next year. Following a competitive tender process, the…

Congratulations to HTN Partner members Buttress Architects who have been awarded the RIBA North West Award 2021 and RIBA North West Conservation Award 2021 for their work on Wythenshawe Hall. The grade II* listed 16th century mansion house suffered a devastating fire in 2016 and Buttress had to undertake a…

Visitors to the gardens of Wentworth Woodhouse now have the unique opportunity to watch dancers creating a groundbreaking new ballet. Over the next three weeks, the gardens become a giant and inspirational ‘rehearsal room’ for five ballerinas. The producer of the ballet they will be shaping is Barnsley-born Tara Lee-Turton,…