The Architectural Heritage Fund
Our headline sponsors for Conference 2025 in Bradford are the Architectural Heritage Fund.
The Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF) is a registered charity, working since 1976 to promote the conservation and sustainable re-use of historic buildings for the benefit of communities across the UK, particularly in economically disadvantaged areas.
Helping communities across the UK find enterprising new ways to revitalise the old buildings they love. Providing advice, grants and loans, and our support acts as a catalyst for putting sustainable heritage at the heart of vibrant local economies.
Almond Tree Consulting are kindly sponsoring a bursary for young people at our 2025 conference.
Almond Tree Strategic Consulting partners with charities and non-profits to deliver expert governance, strategy and collaboration support. With 18+ years’ experience and 30+ heritage clients served, we help future-proof your organisation.
Buttress Architects are kindly sponsoring an early careers bursary and a Digital Hero for our 2025 conference.
Buttress is a leading design studio providing architecture, urban design, interiors and conservation design services.
They’re thinkers as much as makers. They believe that architecture is as much about people as buildings, and that buildings should be shaped by their surroundings, their role and the people who’ll use them.
Cooper Parry are kindly sponsoring a Digital Hero for our 2025 Conference.
As Heritage Trust Network partners, we offer members a free one-hour VAT and tax consultation. From cost estimates to business plans and software advice, we’re here to help at any stage.
Creative Heritage Consultants are kindly sponsoring a bursary for our 2025 conference.
Creative Heritage Consultants help turn liabilities into assets through heritage-led regeneration, creative re-use and constructive partnerships. We work with clients to conserve historic fabric, engage communities and embed economic and environmental sustainability in their projects.
CT: Accountants Advisers are kindly sponsoring a bursary for our 2025 conference.
CT: Accountants and Advisers work with numbers, but for people. Knowing and understanding our clients is what drives us. Our passion isn’t just in numbers, it’s in knowing how they can help. It’s in understanding your financial affairs and safeguarding them.
Knox-McConnel Architects are kindly sponsoring a bursary for our 2025 conference.
Historic buildings consultants and conservation architects. Bringing your heritage project to life is our passion. We combine architectural expertise with a deep respect for the past, ensuring its future is vibrant, meaningful, and yours to share.
LDN Architects are kindly sponsoring a bursary for our 2025 conference.
LDN Architects work throughout the UK on commissions of all scales. They are best known for their award-winning approach to conservation complemented with creative design; delivering projects that meet the aspirations of each client and buildings that enhance the lives of those who use them.
Social Research Builders are kindly sponsoring 3 bursaries for young people at our 2025 conference.
As former charity leaders now consultants, we’re helping build a vibrant charity ecosystem where people and places grow, stories matter, and stats have soul. Let’s connect and explore possibilities.
Conference Exhibitors
Abbeystone Insurance Brokers specialise in insuring the third sector, including heritage risks. We offer tailored coverage, a dedicated team, exclusive markets, strong insurer relationships, and expert claims support—ensuring you always know who to trust.
As Heritage Trust Network partners, we offer members a free one-hour VAT and tax consultation. From cost estimates to business plans and software advice, we’re here to help at any stage.
Hayes Parsons Insurance Brokers are proud members of the Heritage Network, and we would be delighted to talk to you about how we help protect heritage organisations and historic sites with expert insurance advice and support
Narro is a Consulting Structural & Civil Engineering Practice operating across the UK. It provides a high-quality service, delivered by committed and experienced staff. Narro has extensive expertise in conservation engineering, with 4 CARE engineers.
The Stair Climbing Company provides flexible, fixture-free access solutions for heritage sites and restored buildings—helping people with mobility challenges navigate stairs safely, with dignity, and without altering the fabric of a building.
CT: Accountants and Advisers work with numbers, but for people. Knowing and understanding our clients is what drives us. Our passion isn’t just in numbers, it’s in knowing how they can help. It’s in understanding your financial affairs and safeguarding them.
Greenwood Projects is a provider of project management, quantity surveying, and project development services to the heritage sector. We work with charitable trusts, faith groups, local authorities and others to restore historic buildings and landscapes. Our repeat clients include the National Trust, Cadw and RAF Museums amongst others.
Heritage Trust Network’s Youth Forum was created in 2022 for young people interested in getting involved in the sector to get together, co-create goals, offer advice & peer-support, and act as a voice for 18-30 year olds in heritage. It has grown year on year in size and activity.
Squeaky Pedal are an award-winning heritage film, animation and TV production company. Working with museums, cultural institutions and broadcasters. Through scripting, research, location filming and the final compelling output – our work inspires, communicates and connects, whether that is a human interest story, a project campaign, or uncovering forgotten history.
Social Research Builders are kindly sponsoring 3 bursaries for young people at our 2025 conference.
As former charity leaders now consultants, we’re helping build a vibrant charity ecosystem where people and places grow, stories matter, and stats have soul. Let’s connect and explore possibilities.
At Unity Trust Bank we provide sustainable banking to businesses that share our principles of acting with integrity and only take deposits or provide finance to organisations where there is an alignment to our values and we can measure impact.