Who runs the SBPT?
The Somerset Building Preservation Trust is an independent body and consists of up to 18 Trustees who hold Board meetings 3 times a year. It is a registered charity and a company limited by guarantee. The Trust consists of:
- Up to 2 elected councillors nominated by the Somerset County Council
- 5 elected councillors nominated by the 5 District Councils in Somerset, which are
Mendip District Council
Sedgemoor District Council
South Somerset District Council
Taunton Deane District Council
West Somerset Council
- Up to 11 experts, ranging from construction engineers to architects to Civic Society representatives etc, all of whom have a considerable knowledge of our historic built heritage
The Trustees elect their own Chairman
Membership of the Board
- President: Mr Ralph Clark, founder Chairman: Retired Chairman Somerset County Council

- Chairman: Mr Mike Foden: (pictured here) Development and construction expert, including the historic built heritage:
- Vice-Chairman: Mr Russell Lillford: recently retired Head of Historic Heritage, Somerset County Council: Chairman SW Association of Preservation Trusts: Member of UK Association of Preservation Trusts
- Mr Patrick Brown, retired conservation architect and university lecturer
- Councillor John Brunsdon, MBE: Mendip District Council
- Councillor Hugh Davies; West Somerset District Council
- Mr Peter Davies: Historic Built Heritage Conservationist
- Mr John Foden: Retired Architect: Taunton and District Civic Society
- Councillor David Fothergill: Somerset County Council
- Counciller Henry Hobhouse: South Somerset District Council
- Mr Derek Gibson, MBE: Retired Architect
- Mr David Gordon: Historic Built Heritage Conservationist
- Miss Hermione Hobhouse; Architectural Historian
- Mr Hugh Stafford, OBE: Founder Secretary of the SBPT
- Mrs Angela Yeoman, OBE, DL: Founder Vice-Chairman of the SBPT
Officers
- Mr David Miller, Hon. Treasurer
- Mrs Erica Adams, Company Secretary and Administrator
Main contact:
Mrs Erica Adams, Secretary to the Somerset Building Preservation Trust, 55 Dobrée Park, Rockwell Green, Wellington, Somerset TA21 9RX
Tel/Fax 01823 669022
Email erica.adams131@btinternet.com

