Education
Public Education
At their best, education and lifelong learning deploy scholarship and entertainment in equal measure to share knowledge- and shared knowledge generates care.
Many people enjoy the beauty of historic buildings. And preservation organizations cannot effectively rescue sites without local support: even when major funds secure conservation or restoration, the people who live with and near historic buildings remain the most committed guardians, with an interest in maintaining their local environment. Charity indeed begins at home.
Therefore, the future of historic sites often depends on the capacity of people at grass-roots transforming their enjoyment, through knowledge, into care.
Care can take several forms: understanding, helping and owning. Understanding the historical legacy that is manifested in architecture perpetuates interest, helping with the issues of management and maintenance can prevent dereliction, and when these don’t work sufficiently, some care enough to take on the risk of ownership and invest to create a valuable future for our stock of historic buildings.
It is unfortunate that in Britain, the culture of lifelong learning that promotes such care and opportunity is effectively being dismantled.
Times Higher Education - Lifelong learning 'on verge of extinction' across the UK
And that’s a major reason why we’re committed to outreach and education.
Symm, master builders since 1815, are our partners in public education, and together we present an annual series of study days that illuminate aspects of architectural excellence.
Public Lectures
Our lecture programme has been graced by academic and popular speakers: Jung Chang, Tony Robinson, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Stephen Bayley, David Starkey
Edward Denison lectures on Modernism in China at RIBA
WMF Britain Comes to You
WMFB Chief Executive,
Dr Jonathan Foyle
Dr Jonathan Foyle is Chief Executive of World Monuments Fund Britain. He is a regular contributor to television programmes on historic architecture and archaeology, has written extensively, taught for Cambridge University’s International Schools, and has lectured and held seminars on historic buildings in Europe, the US and Australia.
We would be pleased to discuss the opportunity of Jonathan presenting a talk or chairing a session on aspects of architectural history and conservation with your group. Please call 020 77305344 to discuss your circumstances and needs.
Study Days
Tim Knox, Director of Sir John Soane’s Museum, with guests in the Marble Saloon at Stowe.
