SAVE Me, I'm Yours! 2022 Launch of new Buildings at Risk and Guest Speaker

2017 Eveleigh Photography

You are warmly invited to join us for our first gathering for two years to take a sneak peek at over 50 new additions to our online Buildings at Risk Register. Liz Fuller, our Buildings at Risk Officer, will preview some of the most interesting new entries and guest speaker Dr Joanne O'Hara, Programme Director - Heritage at Risk at Somerset West and Taunton Council, will talk about the challenges of buildings at risk and what can be done to bring them back into use.

Wednesday 29th June 2022
6.00pm-8.00pm
The Gallery, 70 Cowcross Street, London EC1M 6EJ
Click here to RSVP - booking essential

Every year we add new buildings from around the country to our online at risk register in a bid to publicise the plight of historic treasures which, with new uses, could find new life. The register is a powerful tool in bringing buildings which could be repurposed to wider attention.

Dr Joanne O'Hara will highlight work which has been done to save a range of buildings in Somerset including one of the biggest buildings currently on our register, Tonedale Mill in Wellington. In doing so, she will demonstrate that there is no problem so big it cannot be tackled and she will provide inspiration and hope to all those working to save buildings at risk.

Joanne O'Hara is an architectural historian by training who, since completing her PhD, has worked in a number of academic, curatorial, and commercial roles. Jo is currently a Programme Manager specialising in Heritage at Risk at Somerset West and Taunton Council. In this role, she works on complex Heritage at Risk projects that bring back to life heritage assets which are in a neglected and perilous condition, and seeks community-focused solutions for their future.

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