Future for Religious Heritage (FRH) is a new network of organisations across Europe that are concerned with the protection of our shared religious heritage.
A broad consultation carried out in 2010 identified an absence of policy-level communication between bodies struggling to protect historic places of worship. Many common threats were also identified across European countries, highlighting a demand for sharing experience and knowledge.
FRH aims to address these issues by raising the profile of religious heritage to protect Europe’s historic places of worship, providing a means of communication through the website and Forum events, sharing common problems and solutions, identifying areas where a Europe-wide response is appropriate, and building on existing and past initiatives on historic churches.
‘Working together internationally is fundamental to finding sustainable solutions to some of the problems facing religious heritage today, and to steer clear of reinventing the wheel’, said Crispin Truman, member of the FRH Steering Group and Chief Executive of the Churches Conservation Trust.
