Heritage Award for Scotland's Churches Trust

Tuesday December 17 2024

Scotland's Churches Trust (SCT) has been recognised as the "Religious Heritage Innovator of the Year 2024" by the Future for Religious Heritage (FRH). This European cultural heritage award celebrates SCT’s pioneering efforts in developing a rapid church recording methodology (that utilises cloud-based digital technology), training and empowering volunteers to document Scotland's closing churches.

The initiative rapidly records the many moveable items within each church. SCT has begun mobilising and supporting a nationwide network of volunteers who have so far recorded almost 50 churches.

The ongoing and future efforts of these volunteers will ensure that a permanent record is created for future researchers, documenting the thousands of unique items gifted and deposited in Scottish churches by successive generations of communities across the country – from stained glass and pipe organs to smaller items and even graffiti scratched into the pews.

Scotland’s Churches Trust Chairperson, Prof Adam Cumming, said: “We want to thank the Future for Religious Heritage for this award. It is good to see the hard work and dedication of our volunteers recognised so clearly. We also need to thank the various congregations for their support. This must be an ongoing task and is a fascinating voyage of discovery, learning more about, and documenting, our heritage.”

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