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12/04/2012 13:12: Over Half Million Pound Boost For Hadrian’s Wal

The Hadrian’s Wall World Heritage Site has received a £537,185 funding boost from the SITA Trust for a project to be managed by Hadrian’s Wall Heritage.

Linda Tuttiett, chief executive of Hadrian’s Wall Heritage said: “This is fantastic news for Hadrian’s Wall and we are very grateful to SITA Trust for recognising the importance of this project for the future of the World Heritage Site.

“The grant means parts of the central section of Hadrian’s Wall, some of which are currently on English Heritage’s Heritage at Risk register, can be properly conserved.

“Access to the Wall will be improved at several other locations and new signage and interpretation will be put in place to help to attract more visitors to the Roman frontier.”

Jools Granville of SITA Trust said “We are delighted to be able to provide the £537,185 required to protect sections of Hadrian’s Wall that are current on the Heritage at Risk register and to improve the visitor experience at this National Treasure.
“Over the past 15 years SITA Trust has been able to step in to protect such important heritage sites thanks to governmental support for the Landfill Communities Fund - through which we have been able to provide over £87 million in easily accessible and vital capital funding.
“We hope that this significant grant will encourage other funders to come forward to support Hadrian’s Wall, ultimately removing all sections from the Heritage at Risk Register."
Some of the sections of Wall being conserved are on land owned by the National Trust.

Andrew Poad, National Trust said: “The conservation techniques which will be used on the Wall are interesting in themselves and we hope visitors will gain greater understanding of these as they pass the sites over the summer.”

After detailed surveys in May specialist stone masons will begin the conservation work on the Wall. The full project is expected to be completed in August 2013.  

Hadrian’s Wall Heritage is responsible for the care, protection and management of the 150 mile Hadrian’s Wall World Heritage Site from the Roman coastal defences at Ravenglass north through Whitehaven, Workington and Maryport to Bowness-on-Solway, along Hadrian’s Wall through Carlisle to Newcastle, Wallsend and South Shields.  The Roman frontier was administered from Carlisle.

SITA Trust is an independent environmental funding body set up in 1997 to provide funding through the Landfill Communities Fund. It allocates funds contributed by SITA UK, one of the UK's largest recycling and resource management companies. To date SITA Trust has supported more than 3000 projects to a combined value of over £87 million.

This grant is one of two major awards that SITA Trust has made for conservation projects of 'Heritage at Risk' sites in the UK this year.  The other grant has been made to Wilton's Music Hall in London, the oldest surviving grand music hall in the world which recently featured as a location in the film Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.