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- We live in an early Victorian house which had been plagued with damp problems. As SPAB members we were aware of the technical helpline and contacted the Society. Just one phone call has recouped the cost of our membership many times over.
- To celebrate Volunteers’ Week (1-7 June), the SPAB’s volunteer gardener, Julie Charlesworth, writes about one of her favourite garden tasks – getting creative with topiary!
- I actively encourage others to join the SPAB because it offers expert understanding, education and hands-on courses, all at excellent value.
- The group has run continuously since its foundation in 1994, making it the longest continuously running SPAB Regional Group. Events include visits to buildings undergoing conservation and repair projects to allow members to see conservation i
- The Wales and Marches Group covers a wide area on either side of the Welsh border which contains many diverse and fascinating historic buildings in some of the UK’s most beautiful countryside.
- The SPAB has a small, dedicated staff but our work relies heavily on the help of volunteers. Volunteers assist with all aspects of our activities.
- The Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Group is a mix of professionals and interested amateurs, some of whom joined the SPAB when they became owners of old houses, large and small.
- The SPAB London group was formed in 2015 and it brings together over 1,000 SPAB members living or working in the metropolitan area.
- The SPAB in the North Group covers Cumbria, Durham and Northumberland was established in Spring 2015 by Dearbhail Keating. Before this the Group had operated as SPAB in the North West under Elaine Blackett-Ord. Dearbhail writes:
- The Somerset Regional Group is run by Eve, Meriel, Morwenna, and Freya who are conservation professionals working in the field and so the visits are organised on an ad hoc basis when we have a project on site worthy of a visit.
- Launched in 2006 at the King’s Manor in York, the SPAB Yorkshire Regional Group is currently led by former Scholar, Lucy Newport.
- The Group is run by a committee of five, with Simon Clark as main organiser and Ashley Brown, Alan Keen, Bob Overton-Hart and David Wyatt all also organising events and performing various roles.
- SPAB award for wall paintings 'hidden' by Shakespeare's father
- HLF grant for SPAB Working Party and new permanent exhibition at Eastbury
- While many SPAB members work hard to prevent our old buildings from becoming derelict or ruinous, some also undertake careful conservation on buildings that have already become ruins, as we discovered at
- The support of trusts and foundations is crucial to our work. Trusts and foundations have recently helped to fund: Educational programmes to train the next generation of building specialists, including:
- Matthew Slocombe, director of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings says:
- The Heritage Lottery Fund has awarded £842,000 to Eskdale Mill & Heritage Trust for the conservation and improved presentation of Eskdale Corn Mill, at Boot in the western Lake District.
- The Elizabethan manor house, Eastbury in Barking, is the destination for the 2018 SPAB (Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings) Working Party, an event that is part of the National-Lottery funded ‘We Love Eastbury: 100 Years of Protection