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Update: Thursday 2nd September 2010

The year 2010 marks the Golden Jubilee of Salisbury Civic Society.  Salisbury & District Preservation Trust was inaugurated in the Guildhall on 8th February 1960 with Kenneth Wiltshire as its Chairman.   It then became Salisbury Civic Society in 1985 under the aegis of Mike Cowan, sadly deceased.

PROTECTING OUR HERITAGE, SECURING OUR ENVIRONMENT, SHAPING OUR FUTURE

Welcome!
Objectives of the Society

To promote high standards of planning and architecture
To educate in the architecture, history and geography of the area
To secure the preservation, development and improvement of features of public interest
within the former Salisbury District

We are able to contribute effectively in many areas and are represented on several groups including
Salisbury Vision Board and its Public Realm Survey sub group, Salisbury City Community Area Partnership Steering Group, Salisbury Design Forum and Chairmanship of the Salisbury Conservation Advisory Panel.  We also have a good working relationship with Wiltshire Council, Salisbury City Council and CPRE.

If you would like to help us achieve our objectives, please

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The Society is a registered charity(No 293143) and a member of Civic Voice. It has some 400 members and three committees whose members give their time voluntarily

Programme for 2010 is available at Programme of Events

There are some recent changes as follows:

The early September visit to Marlborough has been cancelled.
Instead, in late September there now is:  Liminality  in Salisbury Cathedral Close – Guided Tour of Exhibition by 8 British based Sculptors and,
on 5th October , a visit to Embley Park, childhood home of Florence Nightingale, & East Wellow Church, where she is buried.

Date of Liminality will be notified

For full details of venues please click on Programme Of Events on the menu

PLAQUE TO SIGNIFY THE ORGINAL LOCATION OF SALISBURY MUSEUM

On 1st September in the presence of our Patron, Lord Congleton, the Deputy Mayor, Cllr John Abbott, the Director of Salisbury Museum, Adrian Green and many others our President, Dame Rosemary Spencer unveiled a plaque on the original museum building in St Ann Street. Full details will appear on our plaques website www.SalisburyPlaques.org

  Salisbury in Detail

Please follow the link on the menu to find out more about the Society's extremely successful publication "Salisbury in Detail" including details of how to order.

Civic Voice 

The Chairman attended the Launch of Civic Voice in London on Saturday 17th April at which there were some 190 delegates. Here is a short report by Third Sector Online:

Umbrella body formed to replace the Civic Trust

A new umbrella body for the civic movement has been launched. Civic Voice, which will represent civic societies in England, was launched on 17 April.

The charity is the replacement for the Civic Trust, which closed in April last year because of a lack of funding. Civic Voice says its activities will include campaigning, raising public awareness of the issues facing civic societies, fundraising and promoting civic pride.

The decision to form Civic Voice came after research among civic societies – voluntary groups set up to improve their local communities – revealed what the sector wanted to replace the trust.

Tony Burton, director of Civic Voice, said: "The civic movement should be in the driving seat of a new politics that responds to the pride people have in the place where they live. Civic Voice will campaign nationally and work locally to protect the local places of which we can be proud, and to improve those which should offer more to their communities."

There are more than 1,000 civic societies in England, with more than 250,000 members.

More can be found at  Civic Voice

The History of Salisbury as told by its Plaques

For some time the Society has been intending to publish a new guide to plaques in Salisbury which will include not only our Blue Plaques but also all other plaques of interest located within the central area. We are fortunate in that we have a member, Alan Clarke, who has volunteered to take on this daunting task.

His work has borne much fruit and you should click on the plaque to go to to the website he has set up

Here you will learn more about the project which has made excellent progress. He would welcome any contributions by email to jac314159@mac.com but points out that the contents have not yet been reviewed in terms of accuracy, capital letters, correct English etc.

At the site there is available for download a full colour 8 page Plaque Guide with map to enable you to walk around Salisbury and trace the history for yourself. You can print it in colour or in greyscale to suit your requirements.

Public Realm - Salisbury Streetscape - Streets for People

A copy of our 2006 report is available on this site in Adobe Acrobat format. To reach it please follow this link - Streetscape Report

Equal Opportunities Policy

The Society has a formal Equal Opportunities Policy and it can be read at this link.