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Church Gutter Maintenance Schemes

SPAB Church Maintenance schemes

SPAB ran a project to help churches in selected areas to carry out maintenance. The scheme closed in April 2017 but its web site gives helpful advice. SPAB offers technical advice to owners of historic buildings and organises National Maintenance Week every November.

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Diocese of London Gutter Maintenance Programme

Diocese of London

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Other UK Organisations

Church Conservation

Advice on caring for churches from the Church of England.

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National Churches Trust

Grant-giving Trust concerned with the care of churches in the UK; offers maintenance grants to churches.

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Historic England

HE’s advice on Maintenance and Repair of Places of Worship.

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Institute of Historic Building Conservation

“A Stitch in Time”: a brochure giving advice on maintenance jointly produced with SPAB (2002).

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Historic Environment Scotland

Advice from HES on the maintenance and repair of traditional buildings.

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Cadw

Advice from Cadw on the maintenance of historic buildings in Wales.

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Historic England “Stopping the Rot” Guide

Historic England/IHBC guidance on the powers available to local authorities to order or carry out repairs to historic buildings

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Other UK Maintenance Schemes

Stirling Traditional Buildings Healthcheck

Stirling City Heritage Trust a pioneering scheme offering a routine maintenance service.

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Other information sources

Building Conservation

Information site on conservation materials and techniques

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International

Future for Religious Heritage

EU-based charity working on issues facing religious buildings throughout Europe.

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Raymond Lemaire Centre for Conservation, Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium)

The Centre has a UNESCO Professor of Preventive Maintenance.

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Monumentenwacht Flanders

Monumentenwacht organisation for the Flanders area of Belgium (in English)

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Monumentenwacht Netherlands

This is the website of the Federation of Provincial Monumentenwacht maintenance organisations. They run preventive maintenance schemes for historic buildings (In Dutch)

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Pro Monumenta, Slovakia

Pro Monumenta provides a basic maintenance and repair service to historic buildings in Slovakia

Campaigns for the better maintenance of Britain’s historic buildings.

Maintain is a UK-wide not-for- profit group set up in 1997. It is unique in the UK in being concerned entirely with encouraging maintenance.

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