The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings

The Mills Section:

• Protects hundreds of traditional windmills and watermills each year from proposals to demolish or damage them.
  
  
• Campaigns for the sympathetic repair of mills, and works to return buildings and machinery to working order.
   
• Circulates its newsletter, Mill news, to members four times per year.
   
• Helps to find new owners for mills at risk by issuing a list of mills which are for sale.
   
• Arranges a programme of events, including training courses, lectures, meetings and visits.
   
• Works to raise public awareness of the need to save and conserve the country's dwindling number of wind and watermills by generating press interest.
   
• Co-ordinates and publicises National Mills Weekend on the second weekend in May each year.
   
• Supports the work of traditional millwrights across the UK.
   
• Liaises with independent groups of international and UK molinologists.
   
• Encourages the survival of the traditional miller and his or her craft.
   
• Supports the care and development of our collections through the Mills Archive.
   
• Raises and distributes money through the Mill Repair Fund.
   
• Publishes details of mills which are open to visitors.