Glasgow City Heritage Trust

Glasgow City Heritage Trust is an independent charity with a foundational mission to safeguard, repair, and promote Glasgow’s historic built environment, protecting architectural and cultural heritage for current and future generations. Its core values emphasize local pride, inclusive community engagement, traditional building skills transmission, sustainability, resilience, accessibility, education, and stewardship, driven by technical excellence and community empowerment. Funding decisions prioritize public benefit, legacy-building interventions that foster social cohesion, economic vitality, and environmental resilience through heritage, believing change arises from participatory stewardship, skills revival, and public understanding of place-based history.

The Trust funds conservation and repair of Category A, B, or C-listed buildings and structures in conservation areas threatened by neglect or insensitive development, skills training workshops in stone masonry, window repair, and traditional crafts to revive endangered building expertise, educational interpretation initiatives including public talks, guided tours, and school programs on architectural history, research projects documenting Glasgow’s industrial heritage, tenements, and ghost signs, exhibitions and publications celebrating urban cultural narratives, and participatory community events like heritage festivals that build social connections and address climate change through adaptive reuse of historic places. Supported activities target public benefit via community-led restoration, inclusive outreach enhancing economic opportunities through heritage tourism and social enterprise, legacy projects strengthening community identity and resilience. Beneficiaries encompass local communities, tenants’ associations preserving shared historic spaces, voluntary organizations, social enterprises, and the general public seeking deeper engagement with Glasgow’s unique urban environment.

Exclusions encompass repairs to private homes, building interiors, modern fabric elements, or active places of worship, as well as projects lacking public access or legacy impact. Distinctive priorities include resilience and sustainability of historic buildings, heritage-driven climate adaptation, inclusive economic benefits from skills and tourism, and fostering public engagement for long-term community legacy. Uniquely focused on Glasgow’s diverse urban heritage, it champions grassroots voluntary groups, tenants’ associations, and social enterprises delivering technical, educational, and participatory interventions with community voice central to stewardship.