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Stone Heritage

SPAB outline strategy for 2025-2030
, By Clare Howcutt Kelly
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The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) has launched its strategy for the next five years. This strategy has been developed to reinforce SPAB’s role as the expert source of advice and skills development for people who care for our built heritage, ensuring old buildings are better managed and valued as an integral part of a low-carbon future.

By 2030, the organisation has pledged to share the SPAB Approach with new audiences whose love of history or ownership of a period property prompts them to discover guidance, training and expertise, while growing and deepening engagement with its supporter base of members, volunteers and enthusiasts.

This year, SPAB will complete its site-based training project repairing Old House, Boxley and sell the building. In 2027, the charity will celebrate its 150th anniversary renewing its commitment to seeing all old buildings better understood, cared for and protected, just as William Morris outlined in 1877 when founding SPAB.

Highlights of SPABs strategic focus will be:

  • Emphasising the value of the SPAB Approach to sustainability, carbon reduction and energy efficiency in historic buildings.   
  • Expanding the reach of its well-established educational activities and advice-giving.   
  • Emphasising site-based learning through projects, training events and education programmes, to increase understanding and conservation skills.  
  • Sharing the SPAB Approach with new audiences and widening reach through targeted membership campaigns and engagement activities. Ensuring everyone feels welcome and finds its help accessible.   
  • Maximising SPAB’s potential to deliver public benefit through cultivating partnerships, compatible sponsorships and grants, and encouraging donations and legacies.  
  • Building stronger connections across SPAB’s national branches, regional groups and specialist sections.  
  • Maximising the potential of the 150th Anniversary as a celebration of SPAB’s illustrious past and as a launchpad for future activities.

For more information and to download the strategy, visit https://www.spab.org.uk/news/spab-strategy-2025-2030-summary

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