YOUNG PEOPLE

The Trust seeks to target the younger community to ensure that future generations gain an interest in historic buildings and conservation issues.

2002 - Art Project at Morgans JMI School

the HBPT and the HAA sponsored an art project at Morgans JMI School in Hertford. Claire Toms, Hertfordshire Artist, worked with two classes over four weeks. Pupils were asked to look closely at the features of local buildings and create textural relief images. The work formed a frieze of historic buildings and was exhibited at the Listed Building Show.

2003 - Children’s Art Workshop

A children's art workshop run by David Kefford, Community Artist, proved to be one of the highlights of the 2 days at the Conservation + Design Show. Children were encouraged to look at Hatfield House or photographs of listed buildings in Hertfordshire and do a preliminary drawing of their chosen building. They then had the opportunity to create textural, relief images, painting etc.

2004 – 2008 Art & Photographic Competition for Young People

This has become an annual event for the Trust. The brief is to take a photograph or draw a picture of one of the 8000+ listed buildings in Hertfordshire. One the judging has taken place all the entries are put in an exhibition at Place House Hall, Ware and there is a presentation ceremony for the winners to collect their prizes.  There is always a great deal of interest and when judging the competition Louise O’Gorman, of ‘Photography by Louise’ in Hertford, said “ I so enjoyed judging the Photographic Competition for Young People and was very impressed by the standard of photography especially considering some entrants were as young as 5¾. I am so glad I am not an architectural photographer in Hertfordshire as I’d have some stiff competition!”

Competition judge, photographer Louise O'Gorman with some of the winners in 2004	The Mayor of Ware presenting the prizes in 2007
Rachel Hosking age 10 - Moor Park Mansion "At the end of the Rainbow" Overall competition winner 2004	Naomi King, age 12 - Killingdown Farm "The Post Card" Overall Winner Photography 2006
Claire Macdougal, age 15 Knebworth House “Hidden in the Trees” Overall competition winner 2004	Charlotte Jones, age 7 St Leonard's Church, Bengeo Overall Winner Art 2006
Exhibition of entries at Place House Hall, Ware	Amanda Critchfield Ashridge College "Where Does the Path Lead" Overall Winner Art 2007

SEMINARS

HBPT, HAA and the Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation co hosted Design for Living, a conference inspired by the Garden City Movement and which tackled some of the development challenges of the 21st Century. The day brought together many stakeholders in the built environment for a series of challenging presentations. The conference was Hertfordshire’s major event for Architecture Week.

In 2006 the HBPT hosted a seminar as a tribute to Adrian V B Gibson MBE
at Place House Hall, Ware. Seven speakers - friend and colleagues contributed to the event and a substantial amount of money was raised for Adrian's favourite charity.