Your Community Needs You: saving the past
Heritage might once have been all about kings and queens, castles, stately homes and standing stones. But today it brings communities together in preservation campaigns and links strangers in projects of discovery
Find out how one community came together to restore and reopen their local church as a multi-purpose community centre, another rebuilt and opened a garden for everyone to enjoy and how one person's love for ponies put their local area on the map. Read the case studies in the March issue of Country Living magazine, on sale 10 February.
For help to revive and adapt historic places of worship, download our factsheet at the bottom of this page and click on the link below for useful contacts.
Click here for useful contacts to improve your community
We have put together a factsheet about reviving and adapting historic places of worship. To view this click on 'Click here to download' at the bottom of the page
The Prince's Countryside Fund is Country Living magazine's charity of the year and will be supporting its work at the CL Fairs and in the magazine. It's funded by businesses that have a connection to the countryside, through the products they make or sell. You can donate through your post office. Visit princescountrysidefund.org.uk.
Click here to visit the Your Community Needs You! page
Click here to find out more about Country Living magazine's Your Countryside Needs You! campaign
The pattern is a PDF file. You can open the PDF to look at it, then save it on your computer, or save it directly to your computer, then open it. (You need to have Adobe software to view a PDF file. Download the free software here.)
