THE SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF ANCIENT BUILDINGS — grant history

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Latest income

£1.1m

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

£5k

Accounts grants total

—

extracted from its FY2025 accounts

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Deadlines: Applications are considered by the Grant Panel three times a year: in February, June, and October.

Summarised from www.spab.org.uk · www.spab.org.uk/mills/mill-repair-fund · www.spab.org.uk/news/townsweb-digitisation-grant-spab-150-stonehenge-st-marks-venice on 17/08/2026. Always check the funder’s site before applying.

Credited as a funder by

Charities that name this funder on their own websites (website claims, separate from the accounts-extracted grants below).

THE CRABBLE CORN MILL TRUST “Repairs to this mill are supported by the Mills Section of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings”

What this funder supports

Based on the register classifications and operating areas of the grant recipients we could match to the charity register (a subset of all grantees).

Causes funded

Environment/conservation/heritage (4 grantees)
Arts/culture/heritage/science (2 grantees)
Education/training (2 grantees)

Where grantees operate

Throughout England And Wales (2 grantees)
Derbyshire (1 grantee)
Throughout England (1 grantee)

What changed: FY2024 → FY2025

Grantees that appear, disappear or move by 50%+ between the two most recent filings we have read. A grantee “dropped” may simply have received a multi-year grant earlier.

Change	Grantee	FY2024	FY2025
new	THE HERITAGE ALLIANCE	—	£1k
not listed	Sustainable Traditional Buildings Alliance	£1k	—
not listed	Frances Geering Almshouses, Harwell, Oxfordshire	—	—
not listed	Sir Walter Moyles Almshouses, Seaton Torpoint, Cornwall	—	—
not listed	Whitchurch Silk Mill, Hampshire	—	—
not listed	Eskdale Watermill, Cumbria	—	—
not listed	St John the Baptist & St John the Evangelist, Sherborne. Dorset	—	—
not listed	Manor Farm Barn, Winterborn Clenston, Dorset	—	—
not listed	SPITALFIELDS HISTORIC BUILDINGS TRUST LIMITED	—	—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
Mills Archive Trust	FY2025	£4k	Donation
The Heritage Alliance	FY2025	£1k	Subscription
Mills Archive Trust	FY2024	£4k	It also donated £4000 to the Mills Archive Trust.
Sustainable Traditional Buildings Alliance	FY2024	£1k	Baber Fund (emergency works) grants were offered to the Spitalfields Trust for Charing Palace, Kent.
Frances Geering Almshouses, Harwell, Oxfordshire	FY2024	—	Frances Geering Almshouses, Harwell, Oxfordshire
Sir Walter Moyles Almshouses, Seaton Torpoint, Cornwall	FY2024	—	and Sir Walter Moyles Almshouses, Seaton Torpoint, Cornwall.
Whitchurch Silk Mill, Hampshire	FY2024	—	Through its Mill Repair grant fund our Mills Section supported conservation work to Whitchurch Silk Mill, Hampshire
Eskdale Watermill, Cumbria	FY2024	—	Eskdale Watermill, Cumbria.
St John the Baptist & St John the Evangelist, Sherborne. Dorset	FY2024	—	and from the Newcombe Fund (almshouses) for St John the Baptist & St John the Evangelist, Sherborne. Dorset
Manor Farm Barn, Winterborn Clenston, Dorset	FY2024	—	Grants were also made from the Thomas Hardy Fund for repairs to Manor Farm Barn, Winterborn Clenston, Dorset
Spitalfields Trust	FY2024	—	Baber Fund (emergency works) grants were offered to the Spitalfields Trust for Charing Palace, Kent.
Windmill Hill Trust	FY2023	£4k	Mill Repair grant fund
Melbury Abbas Mill	FY2023	£4k	Mill Repair grant fund
Bourn Windmill (Cambridgeshire)	FY2023	£4k	Mill Repair grant fund
Heage Windmill Society	FY2023	£4k	Mill Repair grant fund
Mills Archive Trust	FY2023	£2k	Donation
Sustainable Traditional Buildings Alliance	FY2023	£1k	Support for research and campaigning
The Heritage Alliance	FY2023	£930	Subscription
Joint Committee of the National Amenity Societies	FY2023	£400	Subscription
Windmill Hill, Bourn, Bursledon and Heage windmills	FY2022	£3k	Mill Repair grant fund
Mills Archive Trust	FY2022	£2k	Donation
Sustainable Traditional Buildings Alliance	FY2022	£1k	Research and campaigning support
The Heritage Alliance	FY2022	£830	Subscription
Joint Committee of the National Amenity Societies	FY2022	£400	Subscription
Mills Archive Trust	FY2021	£2k	Donation
The Heritage Alliance	FY2021	£830	Subscription

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