A brief webinar to introduce partners, funders, potential new members and other organisations to the work of Heritage Trust Network.

What is Heritage Trust Network? Who are our members? What do we do for them? What makes us different from other national heritage organisations? Should your organisation join? Should you recommend people to join? Could you be working in partnership with us? Join this webinar to find out.

Join our January meeting to hear about the folklore of Scottish watermills!

Future dates: 2nd April 2025, 7th October 2025

These free, online meetings are for anyone with an interest in mill heritage, owners or operators of commercial or converted historic mill buildings and/or those of us with a full-time role in developing and/or running mills.

Carbon Literacy is a key way for organisations to gain an awareness of the causes and impacts of climate change and an understanding of carbon emissions. It provides a great foundation for individuals, teams and organisations to begin to take steps towards reducing their carbon emissions and become more environmentally sustainable.

The focus of Carbon Literacy is about empowering people to take action. To become certified as Carbon Literate you must pledge to undertake an individual and group action that will help you and your organisation to achieve net zero.

For heritage organisations based in England

Join Mark Coates, Chief Executive of Creative Youth Network, and Clare Phillips, Associate Architect at Purcell, as they talk us through the highs and lows of regenerating Bristol’s old magistrates’ court.

Creative Youth Network is a youth charity with a mission to help young people achieve their potential. It has reclaimed and renovated Bristol’s Old Magistrates’ Court which is now a city-centre hub for creativity and innovation, an event and work space for the creative industries and young people.

Heritage Toolbox is a pilot programme funded by West Yorkshire Combined Authority and delivered by Heritage Network and Locality.

The programme aims to help build resilience and capacity in the heritage sector in West Yorkshire through sessions on key topics such as writing funding bids, governance, volunteer development and equality, diversity and inclusion.

Heritage organisations that operate within the West Yorkshire Combined Authority are invited to this free discovery event to find out more about the programme, what they can gain from it, and help us shape some of the course content to fit your needs.

Are you a community group thinking about taking ownership of your local church? Are you already managing your church for the benefit of the community? This free online event is for you.

Heritage Trust Network and Historic Churches Scotland have joined forces to host an ongoing event series for any group contemplating the future of their church building.

At these free online events we share case studies from those who have forged a new future for their church and host discussion forums amongst all attendees.

Join Darren Barker MBE, Managing Director of Great Yarmouth Preservation Trust, as he talks us through his experience of Compulsory Purchase Orders and asset transfers and the role that building preservation trusts can play.

Darren has almost 30 years’ experience in heritage conservation across the UK and Europe and became Managing Director of Great Yarmouth Preservation Trust in 2011. With an extensive track record of community engagement and developing creative uses for vacant and neglected buildings and spaces, Darren lectures widely and has established a number of international conservation training programmes.

Join us for our first Network Day of 2025! These are member-only events with four different sections. Get a ticket for the whole day and drop into the sessions that interest you.
Sessions include:

• The Basics
• Where’s the Money? with Dawn Morris, Philippa Moors and Hannah Parkhouse from Unity Trust Bank
• Ask the experts
• Special Interest – GIS mapping with Glasgow Building Preservation Trust providing an introduction to why, when and how to use spatial data (including ‘GIS’)

Speaker information and details will be listed as they are confirmed, closer to the date of the event.

Heritage Toolbox is a pilot programme funded by West Yorkshire Combined Authority and delivered by Heritage Network and Locality.

The programme aims to help build resilience and capacity in the heritage sector in West Yorkshire through sessions on key topics such as writing funding bids, governance, volunteer development and equality, diversity and inclusion. Heritage organisations that operate within the West Yorkshire Combined Authority are invited to this free discovery event to find out more about the programme, what they can gain from it, and help us shape some of the course content to fit your needs.

Following a successful Heritage Futures Wales event in March, we are bringing the event to north Wales! Join us in Wrexham for a day conference including talks from heritage practitioners across the sector, with an opportunity to network and connect with peers and professionals alike.

This event is aimed at young people aged 18-30 interested in a career in heritage, discover what the sector has to offer!

Booking details will be available on our website and Eventbrite soon. To express an interest click the button below.

What do we need to do to ensure a future for our town and city centres? Where are the successful initiatives and partnerships? How do we attract funding together?

See how organisations are working together to bring life back to our high streets by joining us in Newport, south Wales for our final in-person high street regeneration day conference. We will be exploring case studies and opinions on how we can rescue, reuse and regenerate our town centres from the people who have been there and done it. Lunch will be provided and we’ll also be taking a tour of Newport’s regeneration area with Newport City Council during the afternoon.

Join us in Bradford City of Culture for the heritage networking event of the year; an exhilarating three days of tours, visits, presentations, discussions, socialising and networking.

Early bird tickets are on sale now.

There are additional discounts for Network, Partner, Supporter and Student members. Email admin@heritagetrustnetwork.org.uk for your discount code.