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- The Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust (QEST) offers scholarships and funding for apprenticeships for the training and education of talented craftspeople.
- We are so grateful to everyone who attended our working party this year.
- The SPAB Approach to building conservation combines well-proven principles with practical repair techniques. It has influenced building conservation worldwide and underpins much in UK heritage legislation.
- Since the foundation of the SPAB in 1877, casework, campaigning and advice have been at the centre of our work. Today in England and Wales, the Society has a statutory role in the secular planning system.
- Typically a career as a heritage craftsperson starts with training in a particular skill, such as bricklaying, plastering or stonemasonry.
- Prince Frederick Duleep Singh is one the most interesting personalities found in the SPAB archives.
- English Heritage's evolving response to the Covid 19 emergency
- SPAB volunteer Keri Dearmer explores the wealth of history near her home in East London.
- We explore the local heritage of our members, staff and volunteers across the country. A church with a view is a local treasure to our Kent & Surrey regional group Chair Hazel Morris.
- SOLD OUT 15th August - An exclusive conservation tour of Edinburgh's Royal Mile led by conservation architect Agustina Solassi.
- Set against a quiet valley, Rievaulx Abbey in North Yorkshire, was founded in the 12th century as the first Cistercian monastery in the north of England. It expanded to a community of 650 monks under its most prominent abbot, Aelred (1110-1167).
- Maintenance Week is our annual reminder to get your building ready for winter with simple maintenance checks and repairs.
- 22nd of August at 11.30am - An exclusive conservation tour of Edinburgh's Royal Mile led by conservation architect Agustina Solassi.
- We’re excited to announce that we will be launching a new range of SPAB t-shirts and we need your help. We’d love for our members to design us a special edition to celebrate the launch.
- SPAB Scotland Guardian Tom Hay, an engineer who is also a qualified architect, looks at how principles used in traditional buildings can inform new architecture.
- 2020-21 SPAB Scholar Libby Watts takes us on a sketching tour of her historic village.
- Master of None: the application of SPAB repair principles with little money and few skills
- In this four-part series Visiting Professor and Gresham Provost Simon Thurley sets out new research and perspectives on the great houses and estates of some of the leading Tudor and Stuart Aristocratic dynasties.
- We look back on the work of Scottish architect William Weir (1865-1950), one of our most respected caseworkers, and was part of a group of dedicated experts active in the first 50 years of the SPAB.
- The second biennial Congleton Heritage & Antiques Festival is going ahead, despite the restrictions of the current Covid-19 crisis, with an exciting programme of over 40 on-line events from 12 - 27 September 2020.
- William Morris left the SPAB as his legacy. Over 140 years ago he set out to 'protect our ancient buildings, and hand them down instructive and venerable to those that come after us’.
- The National Heritage Ironwork Group has announced a series of webinars for the Autumn season.
- Providing us with notice of a legacy in your will is extremely helpful, allowing us to plan with confidence. If you wish to share your intentions with us, please fill in this form. Your information will be kept entirely confidential.
- To find out more and discover just what an impact Gifts in Wills have made please download our leaflet
- The Maintenance Co-operatives Project came to a close in March 2017, having set up over 32 Maintenance Co-operatives across the country and five 'Co-op Minis'.