Happy New Year!

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!