The Sustainable Conservation Trust is a non-profit organisation dedicated to the preservation and use of historic structures. It was founded in 2020 by a collective of architects, experts, and professionals working in heritage environments, who believe that their duty extends beyond preserving and conserving physical heritage within the remit provided by clients. Instead, they see themselves as proactive advocates of heritage – promoting, educating and campaigning to protect it.

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The SCT’s aim is for every vacant or underused asset within the historic built environment to be meaningfully preserved through sustainable, productive reuse – ideally, for the benefit of the wider community. The trust emphasises the importance of both physical and virtual preservation initiatives to understand and activate these underused heritage structures, and bring them back into active and beneficial use.

The SCT links to research and practice to provide sustainable training and consultancy services to owners and custodians of heritage sites who are in need of assistance and support. It values interdisciplinary approaches to preservation, and therefore aims to include scholars and practitioners from different interconnected backgrounds, creating a network of like-minded professionals, academics, businesses, economists, conservation experts, educators, community groups and statutory bodies.

Ultimately, the SCT aims to present a collective, unified approach to facilitating the regeneration and meaningful redevelopment of heritage assets that can in turn benefit other non-profit organisations. By connecting an area’s present inhabitants with the history which surrounds them, it hopes to forge a more beneficial future for the local community.