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London Historic Buildings Trust is London’s only city-wide building preservation trust.

Since 1992, we’ve been specialising in heritage-led regeneration to save at-risk historic buildings to benefit communities across London.

Celebrating 30 years of rescuing London’s heritage

30 years, £7 million of coordinated funding, 7 buildings removed from the Heritage at Risk Register and impactful re-use for local communities.

From affordable housing to innovative workspaces, to healthcare sites and community spaces, we’ve created new places across the city which unify today’s communities with special buildings of the past.

Though we’re a small organisation, we’re continually developing new projects and activities, enabling us to amplify our impact and engage more communities in cherisihing their local heritage.

This Month’s Snapshot

To celebrate 30 years of saving London’s heritage, we were delighted to be joined by friends and colleagues at the Art Workers Guild this May. 

Our Chair, Georgina and Director, Rosie wrote a little about the event in our most recent newsletter, alongside an update on our new projects at Lavender Hill Cemetery Chapel (Enfield), Paddington Old Cemetery Chapels (Brent) and our Phase II of the Petticoat Lane Heritage Trail. 

You can read our Autumn Newsletter here. 

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Our Current Projects

‘HOW TO’ – free training materials for Community Groups

HOW TO is part of LHBT’s ongoing training programme, specifically designed to empower and equip communities and organisations with the knowledge to take on heritage projects.

These short and snappy virtual sessions are free to attend and open to all.

Each session breaks projects down into simple key elements, with case studies, Q&As top tips and links to further resources and support. Learn how to take on a heritage project from experts in the field.

These sessions were recorded, and each can now be accessed online along with a pdf of every presentation.

LHBT Project Managers are generously supported by Historic England
through a Regional Capacity Building Grant 

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Get Involved

Whether you have a passion for saving buildings that lie unloved or for bringing buildings and communities together to generate social benefits, there are many ways in which you can get involved and help us to create a brighter future for the Capital’s built heritage.

You can make a one off donation to support our work.

Keep up to date with what we’re doing and seeing how projects are progressing.

If you’re a more hands on kind of person than why not sign up?

We often hold events or workshops which were designed to help support volunteer led groups.

The famous 'Spirit of Christmas' angels that soar above shoppers every Christmas in Regent Street were installed in 2016, designed by Paul Dart. Paul was inspired by the first Regent Street lights in 1954 (the year rationing ended) which featured angels blowing trumpets.

Did you know that it was Selfridges' 1935 Christmas display that is considered to be the first of its kind in London? 1935 was the first year that the themed windows and lights spanned the entire length of the store. Today these showcase different brands, artists and designers.

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LHBT is recruiting a Finance Lead

LONDON HISTORIC BUILDINGS TRUST – FINANCE LEAD DUE TO THE UNEXPECTEDLY HIGH VOLUME OF APPLICATIONS, WE WILL BE CLOSING APPLICATIONS ON THE 10 JANUARY 2025.  London Historic Buildings Trust (LHBT), a successful charity with a committed

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