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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.
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:
Visit
Join the Wales and Marches group for a guided tour of Wilderhope Manor. This Grade I listed Elizabethan manor with important links to the English Civil War.
Date:
01/02/2026 - 01/02/2026
Audience: SPAB Members and their guests
Location: Wilderhope Manor
Price:
SPAB member £15
Non member £20
Talk
Join SPAB London and historians Caroline Barron and David Harrison for an illustrated discussion on how medieval maps were created and what they reveal about London’s past.
Date:
10/02/2026 - 10/02/2026
Audience: SPAB Members and their guests
Location: Hatchards Ltd
Price:
SPAB member £5
Non member £10
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 leading professionals in construction, architecture and heritage conservation for an afternoon of tours, networking, and insights into CAT’s pioneering projects and future plans.
Date:
11/02/2026 - 11/02/2026
Audience: SPAB Members and their guests
Location: Centre for Alternative Technology
Price:
Free
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 the panel as they 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 our panel as they consider 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