SPAB member £6
Non-member £8
Find out what's on at the SPAB. The SPAB offers a wide range of events, courses, lectures and seminars. Whether you're a building professional looking to widen or develop your practical skills, a SPAB member looking to take part in a Regional Group trip, or an old-building enthusiast searching for a SPAB open house event, a leisure learning opportunity or sociable evening talk, you'll find something for you in our 'What's On' listings.
Talk
Learn about how Peter James followed his dream of reconstructing a windmill from a mill base.
Date:
21/01/2026 - 21/01/2026
Audience: General interest
REF:
MS2504
Location: Online
Price:
Visit
Join the Dorset Group at the factory of Rose of Jericho - specialist producer of traditional paints and building materials. A rare chance to see behind the scenes and learn about production, research and their role in heritage projects.
Date:
23/01/2026 - 23/01/2026
Audience: SPAB Members and their guests
Location: Rose of Jericho
Price:
SPAB member £10
Visit
Join us in Bawdsey for a combined visit to the Radar Museum and Manor house. A unique tour of military heritage and a late Victorian country house.
Date:
24/01/2026 - 24/01/2026
Audience: SPAB Members and their guests
Location: Bawdsey Radar Museum
Price:
SPAB member £33
Non member £38
Working Party
Join the Dorset SPAB Group working outside cutting back overgrown vegetation – shrubs, ivy, brambles – on this SPAB-owned site in rural Dorset. This is a social day while also doing some much needed vegetation management on this pretty site.
Date:
31/01/2026 - 31/01/2026
Audience: SPAB Members and their guests
Location: The Old Church
Price:
Free
Visit
Join us for an informal SPAB Scotland pub meet-up in February—a relaxed chance to catch up with members, volunteers and friends. We have reserved space in the historic Leslie’s Bar on Ratcliffe Terrace, Southside, Edinburgh and hope to see you there!
Date:
10/02/2026 - 10/02/2026
Audience: SPAB Members and their guests
Location: John Leslie's Bar
Price:
Just your bar bill!
Visit
Join the Essex and Suffolk Group for an exclusive visit to a series of private houses, to which public access is usually limited – a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. We'll see buildings spanning the 15th to 18th centuries, many of which have undergone recent repair and research. Our guides will be the owners and local Conservation Officer.
Date:
21/02/2026 - 21/02/2026
Audience: SPAB Members and their guests
Location: Tillingham
Price:
SPAB member £30
Non member £38
Online talk
Recorded online sessions specially designed to give you a way to easily meet your CPD requirements and improve your understanding of building conservation.
Date:
Course 28/02/2026 - 28/02/2026
Audience: Introductory CPD
REF:
CPD1 25
Location: Online
Price:
Standard £10
Four-for-three £30
Visit
Join the Essex and Suffolk Group visit to Woodbridge Tide Mill Museum and The Sutton Hoo Ship's Company. Double visit - a working tide mill, one of the last in the UK and the ongoing work on the Sutton Hoo ship replica.
Date:
07/03/2026 - 07/03/2026
Audience: SPAB Members and their guests
Location: The Boathouse
Price:
Includes lunch and morning and afternoon tea/coffee
SPAB member £35
Non member £38
Talk
What does it mean to be a woman in conservation? Join us for a unique panel discussion as we consider the creativity, skills, ambitions and challenges faced by women working in the historic built environment.
Date:
10/03/2026 - 10/03/2026
Audience: General interest
REF:
OE1/26
Location: The Art Workers' Guild
Price:
Full price £25
Concession £15
Talk
What does it mean to be a woman in conservation? Join us for a live stream of a unique panel discussion as we consider the creativity, skills, ambitions and challenges faced by women working in the historic built environment.
Date:
10/03/2026 - 10/03/2026
Audience: General interest
REF:
OE1/26
Location: Virtual event: held online
Price:
SPAB member £10
Non-member £12