Directory of Traditional Building Skills - Mourne Heritage Trust

some relevance to Northern Ireland. The Funds for Historic Buildings website can be found atwww.ffhb.org.uk.Ecclesiastical BuildingsThe Heritage Lottery Fund has a grant scheme to help with repairs to listed places of worshipand this is expected to continue in its present form until 2005. Also of significance toecclesiastical buildings is the Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme. This is an interimmeasure which returns, in grant aid, the difference between 5% and the actual amount spent onVAT – on eligible repairs done between 1 April 2001 and 31 March 2004 – or the full amountof VAT – on eligible repairs done on or after 1 April 2004. The Scheme is due to continue untilthe end of March 2006. For further information contact: Listed Places of Worship GrantScheme, PO Box 609, Newport, South Wales, NP10 8QD, Tel: 0845 601 5945, Email:nptcallcentreuk@liberata.com, www.lpwscheme.org.ukTourism GrantBoth the Northern Ireland Tourist Board and Invest NI administer funds aimed at developingtourism businesses in Northern Ireland, which can include capital support forrestoring/converting historic buildings. For further details contact: NITB, St Anne’s Court, 59North Street, Belfast BT1 1NB, Tel: 028 9023 1221, Fax: 028 9024 0960; and: Invest NI,Tourism team, Upper Galwally, Belfast BT8 6TB, Tel: 028 9049 0461, Fax: 028 9049 0490,Email: tourism@investni.com, www.investni.com/tourismCharitable TrustsCharitable trusts are sometimes willing to help with the conservation of buildings in charitableor other not-for-profit ownership. Reference could usefully be made to the Directory of Fundsfor Historic Building in Northern Ireland, published by the UAHS in partnership with theEnvironment and Heritage Service. A new up-to-date edition of the directory is expected in late2004. Further information can be obtained at the details given below.The Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action is a further useful source of advice andinformation on grant giving trusts. Further details can be obtained from NICVA, 61 DuncairnGardens, Belfast BT15 2GB, Tel: 028 9087 7777, Fax: 028 9087 7799, Email:nicva@nivca.org, www.nicva.org or www.grant-tracker.orgUlster Architectural Heritage SocietyThe Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, with some 1,200 members, is a voluntary bodyconcerned with the promotion of good architecture of all periods in the nine counties of Ulster.As well as publishing many books and monographs concerning aspects of local architecture, itorganises visits and lectures for its members, and is able to give technical advice of a generalnature and can direct enquirers to appropriate sources of information. Further details can beobtained from The Secretary, UAHS, 66 Donegall Pass, Belfast BT7 1BU, Tel: 028 9055 0213,Fax: 028 9055 0214, Email: info@uahs.co.uk, www.uahs.co.ukOnline sources of information on suppliers, consultants and craftsmenThe Irish Georgian Society and Cathedral Communications Ltd also retain details of specialistsuppliers, consultants and craftsmen that undertake work to historic buildings in the Republicof Ireland and Great Britain respectively. To search the online Building Skills Registerproduced by the Irish Georgian Society visit their web-site: www.irish-architecture.com/igs.The Building Conservation Directory, published yearly by Cathedral Communications andupdated regularly on the internet, can be found at www.buildingconservation.com.156