The Landmark Trust

Who we are

The Landmark Trust is one of Britain’s leading building conservation charities. With the help of our supporters, we save historic buildings in danger of being lost forever. We sensitively restore such ‘Landmarks’ and offer them a new future by making them available to everyone for short breaks. The lettings income from the 200 extraordinary buildings in our care supports their maintenance and survival in our landscape, culture and society. 

Our culture and values

A simple ethos since 1965

The Landmark Trust’s aims as a charity as set down in 1965 are wonderfully simple: to preserve historic buildings and to promote public enjoyment. Like a kaleidoscope, the charity’s work is made up of multiple shards of activity.

Thanks to our supporters we take on historic buildings in real peril and sensitively repair and restore them. In order to achieve these challenging rescues, special talents and expertise are needed: craftsmanship and technical understanding of the highest order. The perpetuation of such skills is critical to looking after historic buildings, be they lime plastering, stone masonry or structural engineering.

Each of our projects includes arrangements for training newcomers in such essential skills and wider education and engagement programmes share their benefits more broadly. Most of Landmark’s buildings, once saved, are available to all for residential stays. For almost 60 years people have come to these special places for family gatherings, romantic getaways, recuperative retreats, creative calm and much more besides.

Our 50 for Free and Landmark Futures programmes mean that each year hundreds of people stay completely free, beneficiaries of other charities and those undertaking research important to the future of society. Furthermore, our national programme of free open days enables anyone, whatever their means, to see and experience these remarkable places first-hand.

For almost 60 years Landmark’s approach to buildings, furniture and life in general has been about adapting and reusing. We believe heritage is part of the solution to the immense challenges of climate change and are determined to continue to play our part in tackling them. We hope our ambitious plan for making our operations and activities more sustainable will help show how buildings from a low-carbon past, far from being a drag, can be a glorious part of a better, low-carbon future.

Dr Anna Keay OBE, Director

Equality, diversity and inclusion policy

Landmark believes that every individual should have an equal opportunity to access, benefit from and enjoy Landmark's work, whatever their background, culture or identity, and no matter how they encounter us – through holidays or events, as a member of staff or local community, through restoration projects or digital engagement. We seek to represent and embrace the breadth and variety of British history, culture and society, valuing visible and non-visible differences with openness and acceptance. We expect all our staff, trustees, volunteers and candidates to support Landmark’s equality, diversity and inclusion principles and aspirations.