The
Architectural Heritage Fund
The Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF) is a registered charity which helps to
repair and give new life to historic buildings of every kind throughout the United
Kingdom.
Architectural
Heritage Society of Scotland
The Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland is concerned with the protection,
preservation, study and appreciation of Scottish buildings.
Association
for Heritage Interpretation
A helpful site, not least because of the generous selection of articles posted
from the Asssociation's Journal, covering issues such as landscape and
building history, interpretation, access, and multiculturalism. A must for anyone
interested in the theory and practice of visitor and
"heritage" centres.
Association
of Preservation Trusts
Supports building preservation trusts in the UK
Building for Life Wales
Building for Life Wales is a showcase of the best contemporary
housing schemes in Wales. Covering a range of design, tenure
and market types, the web site provides an indication of the
types of housing that are now being built, and provides a benchmark
for the types of housing that consumers, developers, architects
and planners should require, expect or encourage in the future.
A partnership involving the Design Commission, the HBF and the
Civic Trust for Wales
Cadw
The Welsh Assembly Government's historic environment service;
part of the department of Culture, Welsh Language and Sport
Culture.gov.uk
The Department of Culture, Media and Sport. Information, inter alia, on
English policy towards the built heritage and the historic environment. Appalling
to navigate, hard to read (brown on brown!) but worth the effort to be kept up
to date from the policy and research perspective.
Helm: historic environment/local management
From English Heritage, "Information and training to help those
who make decisions about the historic environment". Designed
primarily for professionals but nonetheless an invaluable source
of guidance and good practice. Topics include regeneration
and design in context, understanding and recording, management,
accessibility, as well as links to English Heritage and local
authority case studies and guidance. A Welsh analogue is badly
needed.
Design
for homes
Knowledge centre for housing design. Includes the English Building
for Life site, representing a partnership between CABE, the
Civic Trust, and the HBF that champions quality in new home design.
English
Heritage
The English government agency for historic buildings and ancient monuments; extensive
and informative web site
The
Friends of Friendless Churches
The Friends was set up in 1957 by a proud Welshman called Ivor Bulmer-Thomas
to save disused but beautiful old places of worship, of architectural and historic
interest, from destruction and demolition. We have already saved some one hundred
historic churches, and have accepted direct responsibility for twenty-eight which
would otherwise have been demolished, including ten in Wales.
The
Garden History Society
Devoted to the conservation of landscapes, parks and gardens. An extensive and
well-designed site which usefully includes downloadable information in PDF (Acrobat)
format.
Heritage
Lottery Fund
The Heritage Lottery Fund uses money from the National Lottery. We give grants
to support a wide range of projects involving the local, regional and national
heritage of the United Kingdom.
Historic
Scotland
The Scottish Agency for historic buildings and ancient monuments
Institute
of Historic Building Conservation
The Institute of Historic Building Conservation (IHBC) is the professional institute
which represents conservation professionals in the public and private sectors
in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It has nearly 1400 members, divided between
15 branches.
The
National Trust
The UK's leading charity for the preservation of historic buildings
and landscapes
Save
Britain's Heritage
Leading conservation charity tackling buildings at risk
Society
for the Protection of Ancient Buildings
"The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings was founded by William
Morris in 1877 to counteract the highly destructive 'restoration' of medieval
buildings being practised by many Victorian architects. Today it is the largest,
oldest and most technically expert national pressure group fighting to save
old buildings from decay, demolition and damage."
The
Twentieth Century Society
The Twentieth Century Society exists to safeguard the heritage of architecture
and design in Britain from 1914 onwards. One of the Society’s prime objectives
is education, with education comes appreciation. With conservation, another prime
objective, comes the continued opportunity for extending our knowledge about
those buildings or artifacts, whether important or humble, rare or commonplace
as the red telephone kiosk, that characterise the Twentieth Century in Britain.
The
Victorian Society
The Victorian Society is the national society responsible for
the study and protection of Victorian and Edwardian architecture
and other arts. It was founded in 1958 to fight the then widespread
ignorance of nineteenth and early twentieth century architecture.
Among its thirty founder members were John Betjeman and Nikolaus
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