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- In addition to its Georgian HQ in London's Spitalfields, the SPAB also owns a small number of interesting, historic properties further afield which, over the years, have come to us in a variety of ways.
- A few months into their conservation tour of the UK, SPAB Scholar Bethan Watson describes being welcomed into building craftspeople's workshops.
- The SPAB has a small, dedicated staff, but our work relies heavily on the help of volunteers. For National Volunteers Week, we asked some of our volunteers to share their experience.
- Over the end of May bank holiday weekend, SPAB Scotland held a working party on the beautiful island of Lismore, in the Inner Hebrides. SPAB Scotland officer Lucy Stewart reports on a wonderful weekend of hands-on learning and lime burning.
- The SPAB has a small, dedicated staff, but our work relies heavily on the help of volunteers.
- The Gloria and Marco (GeM) Award is a three-month scholarship set up in memory of Gloria Trevisan and Marco Gottardi, two young and talented Italian architects who tragically died in the fire at Grenfell Tower
- News from our friends at the Real Bread Campaign: Sourdough September
- In 2018, the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB), the UK’s oldest conservation charity, took on a Grade II* ‘building at risk’ near Maidstone, Kent. This ‘sleeping beauty’ had been empty for around 50 years.
- The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) believes old buildings have a future. From cottages to castles and from churches to cathedrals we are here to help buildings and the people who care for them.
- A group of volunteers and master craftspeople will gather to repair a medieval chapel at Stourton Caundle, near Sherbourne.
- SPAB Scholar Aoife Murphy is an award-winning engineer from Ireland. To mark International Women in Engineering day, we asked Aoife to write about her career so far and how she specialised in working with historic buildings.
- Well into their nine-month conservation tour, we catch up with 2019 SPAB Scholar Holly, who reports on their recent visit to a Palladian villa in Northern Italy.
- Peter Ellis, one of our long-standing millers and member of the Traditional Corn Millers Guild sadly died earlier in June. Peter was a good friend to many and was always willing to help others and to share his knowledge.
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- Since the 1950s we’ve run an introduction to building conservation on our Repair of Old Buildings Course.
- Being director of the SPAB involves a lot of desk-based work – contracts, finance, HR, strategy and agendas. But like all involved with the SPAB I’m a practical person at heart and love old buildings.
- The Old House Project launched this summer at our Grade II* ‘building at risk’ near Maidstone, Kent. St Andrews is a ‘sleeping beauty’ that has been empty for around 50 years.
- Education and training are at the heart of what we do. With that in mind, we have launched a new type of membership specifically designed for educational institutions and training providers.
- Since 1877 the SPAB has campaigned tirelessly for the protection of old buildings and for the conservation of our shared built heritage.
- The Mills Section is very concerned about government proposals to make it mandatory to add folic acid to flour.
- The Tywi Centre delivers both accredited and non-accredited training and education. The Centre can help homeowners understand some of the damp problems that they might be having, support people to make a listed building application, and deli
- The Grade-I listed church dates to the 13th century and is most famous for its association with the poet William Wordsworth who, along with his family, is buried in the churchyard.