HELPING THE PEOPLE OF GLASGOW PROTECT, REPAIR AND CELEBRATE THE CITY’S HISTORIC BUILDINGS AND PLACES

HELPING THE PEOPLE OF GLASGOW PROTECT, REPAIR AND CELEBRATE THE CITY’S HISTORIC BUILDINGS AND PLACES

Training Grants

GCHT's Training Grant programme is open for applications! Designed to help fund traditional skills and access professional development opportunities, the programme aims to support people at all stages of their careers to help build the skills needed to care for Scotland’s historic buildings and places.

Lost, Dropped, Discarded, Offered: Stories from the Well

From wishes cast in coins to toys lost or rubbish discarded, the objects recovered from the well at Glasgow Cathedral offer glimpses of the people who left them behind. Discover how even the most ordinary belongings can hold personal meaning—and why their most important stories may be impossible to see.

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...we fund a wide variety of projects?

Funded projects have included building repairs, exhibitions, traditional skills training, events, publications, research projects, and community workshops.

...your project could be eligible for grant-funding?

To be eligible for funding, your project must focus on Glasgow’s historic built environment and meet at least one of the following six Grant Priorities of the Programme.

...you can easily check if your project might be eligible for grant funding?

Visit our online checker here

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Alasdair Gray’s Glasgow – How One Artist Reimagined a City

“What is Glasgow to most of us? A house, a park, a golf course, some pubs and connecting streets?” This famous question, posed by the

Ghost Signs of Glasgow

Ghost Signs of Glasgow blog: Tidings from Christmas Past: The Distillers Company, by Kaori Laird

Exploring the history of Wright & Greig Ltd., makers of Rhoderick Dhu blended whisky.

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Taking Care of Your Tenement: Online Event

Join GCHT and Under One Roof for an online session all about tenement maintenance

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Episode 5: A multiplicity of voices, slavery and Glasgow, with Katie Bruce, curator at Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA), Glasgow Museums

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Engrossing talks, professional development sessions and fascinating blogs

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Next five events

Talk: Cumbernauld and the Meme of the Italian Hill Town

October 22, 2026

A photo of people walking through Cumbernauld town centre

This talk, in collaboration with the Academy of Urbanism, joins the dots behind Cumbernauld’s most surprising architectural influences and attempts to explain the reasons behind the meme of the Italian hill town.

Online Talk: Damp and Mould in Traditional Tenements

October 27, 2026

Photo of a white wall with large amounts of black mould

Join Under One Roof and GCHT to explore landlords’ new duties under Awaab’s Law, and how to tackle damp and mould in historic tenement buildings.

SOLD OUT "Murder, murder, polis, three stairs up!” An Evening in Taggart’s Glasgow

October 29, 2026

Taggart written in blue over the city of Glasgow. It was part of the title credits of the show.

One of TV’s great detectives and one ever changing city. Join Taggart’s executive producer, Robert Love, in conversation with Fergus Sutherland, for an evening on crime, character and Glasgow’s history.

Workshop: Christmas Wreath Making

December 3, 2026

A finished wreath lying on some grass.

Join basketmaker Max Johnson for a fun, festive evening of wreath-making.