As a place of huge historic value to the Great Grimsby community, there is little wonder that there is a buzz about town as the Kasbah’s website goes live, declaring the area now ‘Open for Business’. Attention is already drawn to the dock due to the exciting development plans for…

£1million of National Lottery funding is now available for heritage organisations to develop a strong network of digital volunteers – wherever their location. Applications to The National Lottery Heritage Fund’s Digital Skills for Heritage initiative open today. This funding challenges organisations to remove barriers such as place and time restraints and…

Heritage Trust Network is recruiting new members to its Board of Directors. This is a unique opportunity to join the leadership of the fastest growing organisation in community-led heritage regeneration. You could help steer our ambitious strategy to strengthen our organisation and help our members succeed. We are recruiting new…

Three Buildings Trusts from the West Midlands are reaching out to anyone connected with the area and the County of Worcestershire, who has an interest in local heritage and would like to help or learn more about it. They rescue, repair and re-use heritage buildings and deliver a programme of…

If walls could talk, what secrets would they tell? Visitors to Rotherham stately home Wentworth Woodhouse no longer have to ponder. From August 7, the grand state rooms will be whispering memories from their past. If These Walls Could Talk, a fascinating sound and vision experience, will take families back…

After funding from Lottery players, and extensive restoration works, the Historic Coventry Trust are really pleased to have completed the lease for Anglican Chapel in London Road Cemetery: Paxton’s Arboretum. They will be using the space for activities, events & volunteering, and it will be available for hire from later…

The SVR Charitable Trust has announced an impressive start to its Home & Dry appeal, having already secured £250,000, just six weeks after the launch of the appeal. “The appeal has gained considerable momentum since its launch in mid-May,” said Shelagh Paterson, the Trust’s director of development. “We’ve received donations…

Worcestershire Buildings Preservation Trust are delighted to report that work has commenced on site at Willow Court Farmhouse in Droitwich. This exciting project to restore a 16th Century Farmhouse, currently owned by Wychavon District Council, has only been possible with development phase funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund and…

Three additional specialists have joined the board of trustees at Wentworth Woodhouse. The Preservation Trust’s expertise has been strengthened by the arrival of Matthew Hirst, who is Curator at Woburn Abbey, and Rotherham Council’s former Head of Planning Bronwen Knight. In addition, Rotherham’s youth champion Toni Paxford, who became a…

A range of historic, listed buildings at Portsoy Harbour that recently formed the backdrop to an episode of Peaky Blinders and featured in the remake of the film Whisky Galore, are to be conserved and revitalised by the North East Scotland Preservation Trust (NESPT). The four buildings, right beside the…

Fair Justice System for Scotland (FJSS) Group has recently been awarded a grant of £79 200.00 by the National Lottery Heritage Fund for an exciting heritage project, (Windrush Scotland – The Experiences of People of African Caribbean Heritage – A Consultative Project). The project will be delivered from West Calder…

It’s a blooming great idea… Supporters can be part of what happens at Wentworth Woodhouse – by getting crafty and penning their best ideas on a hand-made camellia flower or carriage horse. Garden workshops making cute paper blooms and horses are some of the imaginative ways for the public to…

It’s very much a case of ‘waste not, want not’ at Llanfyllin Workhouse as Liz Neal explains: “First came the copper roofing plate, removed during the recent restoration of the cupola on the Workhouse roof. It was suggested by the Trustees that perhaps I could find an art project to…

The Sussex Heritage Trust has received significant funding for young people and those looking to retrain in building conservation. The Ian M Foulerton Charitable Trust, The Hans and Märit Rausing Charitable Trust and Seaward Homes have all provided funding towards full or part time bursaries to cover the costs of…

SAVE Britain’s Heritage has launched a listing application to secure the future of one of Britain’s earliest Bowling Clubs in Old Trafford, Lancashire. Located just a stone’s throw from Old Trafford’s internationally renowned cricket and football grounds, Old Trafford Bowling Club has been largely forgotten in recent decades, despite having been the…

We asked Network members what their biggest three challenges would be in 2021-22. The top response was fundraising. Just over half of Network members plan to be fundraising for a restoration project this year. The next biggest challenge members reported was improving trading income with around a quarter of members…

Rotherham stately home Wentworth Woodhouse, scene of Oscar-winning movies and acclaimed TV dramas, is turning movie-maker and launching a global search for a screenwriting star of the future. The Wentworth Woodhouse Screenwriting Award launches today (June 4) to seek out new and aspiring writers. The winner will see their script…

Rotherham stately home Wentworth Woodhouse has re-opened to visitors with four new specialists at the helm. “We were closed for many months during the pandemic, but Wentworth Woodhouse has bounced back better than ever,” said Sarah McLeod, CEO of the Preservation Trust which bought the Grade I listed mansion and…

The Make Your Mark in Volunteering campaign, which aims to increase the number and diversity of heritage volunteers in Scotland, is regularly updating a digital library of resources and programme of events, including those shared by Heritage Trust Network. You can see the free resources that are available on their website…

As restrictions are being gradually lifted, there has been a flurry of activity at Carluke Highmill. Carluke High Mill was built in c.1801 and is being transformed into a community space through help from Carluke Development Trust amongst other community groups. Carluke’s historic High Mill received Planning Consent for Proposed…

History, nature, arts and crafts, outdoor trails and sport games… Rotherham stately home Wentworth Woodhouse has lined up a host of activities  to stretch young minds – and legs – for families over half-term. Ensuring young visitors feel welcome and free to explore is top of the agenda at the…

The Fordington mosaic, which HTN Partner members Cliveden Conservation lifted, conserved, re-backed for wall mounting and reinstalled to create an impressive display in the new atrium stairwell at Dorset Museum (open to visitors 28th May 2021), has been shortlisted for the Restoration Conservation Project of the Year in this year’s…

We’re delighted to see that a number of HTN members have been shortlisted for the 2021 Museums + Heritage Awards. The online retail team at Bawdsey Radar have been nominated for the Volunteers of the Year award, Birmingham Conservation Trust’s Coffin Works has been nominated for the Best Use of…

The private chapel at Rotherham stately home Wentworth Woodhouse is welcoming back a thought-provoking exhibition by a Pakistani women’s art collective – which ended abruptly in the pandemic last year. Called The Suitcase, it marks the monumental life change of the first generation of Pakistani women who came to Rotherham…