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- As our Scholarship programme was sadly postponed, the SPAB scholars for 2020 - Amy Redman, Libby Watts and Lucy Newport - sought to find some spirit of the experience in a new challenge: a fundraising hike from the south to north Lakes.
- Despite the pandemic, progress has been made this summer with roof repairs at the SPAB's Old House Project at St Andrew's, Boxley in Kent.
- The 2020 John Betjeman Award for excellence in conservation at places of worship of all denominations and faiths drew a range of impressive entries in the England & Wales category.
- To deliver a maintenance training course appropriate to the needs of volunteers who care for historic buildings used as places of worship in England and Wales.
- Good maintenance is important to buildings of all ages and types. Some deterioration of a building over time is inevitable but regular maintenance helps slow the rate and lessens the need for large-scale, costly work further down the line.
- The Faith in Maintenance project was awarded the European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Award in the Education, Training and Awareness-raising Category in 2010.
- The SPAB Campaign Toolkit is designed to give local communities and campaigners the information they need to work confidently within the planning system.
- Secular Animals, insects and funghi Bat Conservation Trust, Bats and Buildings (PDF download)
- Checklists and video guides to help you look after faith buildings, from the SPAB, the National Churches Trust and Historic England for National Maintenance Week.
- In summer 2016, the SPAB launched a campaign to encourage people to look down and appreciate the history at their feet in the form of beautiful old floors.
- The SPAB’s (Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings) John Betjeman Award for excellence in conservation at places of worship of all denominations and faiths celebrates its 30th year.
- The SPAB deeply regrets the demolitions that will be necessitated by the construction of the HS2 rail line. No matter how well a historic building is recorded, this does not offer sufficient mitigation for its destruction.
- On 7 December, the SPAB received the judgement of The Worshipful Mark Hill QC, Chancellor of the Diocese of Chichester which ruled that proposals for underfloor heating in the historic heart of Holy Trinity, Poynings, Sussex were not to be permitt