Welcome to the home page of the City of Wolverhampton Regenerating Buildings Preservation Trust.  To navigate the site use the menu on the left.  To view our exhibition on the restoration of 12 George Street click here.  To view sales particulars, click here

"Heritage Reclaimed" celebrates the restoration of 12 George Street by the local buildings preservation trust, and illustrates other successful restoration schemes, as well as highlighting historic buildings still at risk of dereliction waiting to have new life breathed into them.

Saturday 15th March
City Life exhibtion at the Light House, Chubb Buildings, Fryer Street, Wolverhampton WV1 1HT  Tel 01902 716055

Monday 17th March to Sunday 30th March
Wightwick Manor, Wightwick Bank, Wolverhampton WV6  8EE  Tel 01902 761400

Purpose
The City of Wolverhampton Regenerating Buildings Preservation Trust exists to help secure the future of threatened buildings of architectural or historic merit in the city and to promote their enjoyment by the public.

Saving Historic Buildings
The Trust is interested in buildings, which are neglected, decaying or at risk of demolition, especially where no commercial solution has been found. It focuses on listed buildings and those in conservation areas, but is interested in all buildings of architectural or historic merit.

What the Trust can do
• Repair or renovate buildings
• Carry out research and publish useful information
• Provide advice to owners
• Enable the public to view and enjoy buildings
• Work with voluntary organisations, the local authority and other statutory bodies and facilitate building restoration
• Raise funds

Organisation and Funding
The Trust is a private limited company and registered as a charity. It receives in-kind support from Wolverhampton City Council as well as technical and administrative help. The Trust is managed by an independent Board of Trustees with a wide range of professional expertise and is run on a day to day basis by a Trust Administrator, who is answerable to the Board.
The Trust is one of over 230 registered building preservation trusts in the UK.
As with most trusts, the City of Wolverhampton Regenerating Buildings Preservation Trust operates on a revolving fund basis, i.e. it is funded from the surplus generated by the sale or lease of restored properties.
The Trust is eligible for feasibility study grants and low interest loans from the Architectural Heritage Fund and can apply for Heritage Lottery Funding, as well as to other public bodies and private trusts.

Effective preservation depends on co-operation between the Local Authority, voluntary societies, trusts and building owners. An independent Trust can act as a “long-stop” to save buildings, which might otherwise be lost.
It is important to remember that routine maintenance, at a modest expenditure, can prevent much more expensive works becoming necessary at a later date.