Wishing all our supporters a very Happy New Year.
2024, our 50th anniversary year, has certainly been a busy one!
Just a taster of what we have been up to:
In March we celebrated a funding award from The National Lottery Heritage Fund to help us to identify endangered Derbyshire buildings with our B@R app, promote heritage skills and training and draw in new volunteers.
We've expanded our team. Some amazing prospective trustees have joined the Trust to offer new skills and Richard Wood has been appointed as DHBT's new Vice Chair after a great first year on the Board. We've welcomed Tricia (Heritage Training & Skills Coordinator), Anna (Heritage Development Officer) and Miles (Heritage Development Support Officer - intern) - all of whom are making a real difference to our impact.
We teamed up with @derbycollege for a BBC Gardeners' World Live show garden - this year based on a restored Bonsall field barn. The design was recognised with a Platinum Award (the highest recognition possible!).
We welcomed the daughters of Vic Nagle to Wingfield Station to honour his memory. Vic was evacuated to the adjoining Station House in 1940 when he was 8.
We hosted visits throughout the year to a range of different Derbyshire properties and locations.
We delivered our first ever 2-day 'pre 1919 buildings repair and maintenance' course!
We celebrated 50 years of DHBT with an exhibition and a special dinner at Chatsworth.
And we received some special awards for our Wingfield Station project!