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New Trustee Appointed
We are delighted to welcome Alison Beardsley who has just been appointed as The Prince’s Regeneration Trust’s newest Trustee. Alison has extensive experience as a lawyer in corporate real estate practice and is a former partner at Allen & Overy. The Trust’s board now stands at 11 members and Alison’s legal expertise will be a valuable addition to the wide range of professional skills already represented by the board.. Alison was also responsible for development of the Allen & Overy Legal Practice Course in conjunction with the College of Law, and was a Committee member of the City Solicitors Educational Trust. We look forward to working with her. |
The Trust’s purchase of two tiny and almost totally unaltered flagstone workers’ cottages in Castletown, Caithness is now complete. Although unlisted, they are the last surviving pair of their kind. The project presents the first opportunity to undertake an exemplar historic building repair project following the North Highland Initiative Enquiry by Design (EbD) held in Castletown in 2007. We are assembling the capital funding package and working with the local Castletown Heritage Society to structure training and education programmes.
'The Backies' were built in the mid C19 and provide an insight into the living conditions at the time. Each cottage comprises two rooms, furnished with fireplaces and inbuilt press cupboards. Of particular note is the quality of their fittings such as original doors, windows and cupboards. One cottage retains its high quality wood panelling and the box bed frame. On entering the building there is a tiny cupboarded ‘lobby’ providing space for cooking, washing and lavatory facilities!
We are delighted to have been appointed by Argyle and Bute Council to progress the 
On the 28th January, we held a Planning Day to explore the feasibility of matching a fledgling arts and education charity to a group of redundant Georgian and Victorian buildings in Shoreditch.
In partnership with Portaferry Regeneration Ltd, we have prepared and submitted a Heritage Lottery Fund Townscape Heritage Initiative (THI) Stage 1 application for £1.23million. The proposed THI is focused on the historic commercial core of Portaferry which is located in a relatively isolated and economically deprived area in Northern Ireland on the southern tip of the Ards peninsula in County Down on the shores of Strangford Lough.
