Annual General Meeting 7 April 2026

Our 2026 AGM will be held on Tuesday 7 April at Spalding Baptist Church, Swan Street, Spalding, PE11 1BT.

All are welcome to attend from 7.30pm, although only members of the Society will be entitled to vote for officer positions.This is your opportunity to ask questions about the Society, suggest ideas and volunteer to join our committee. Following the AGM, there will be a refreshment interval. If anyone would be interested in being on our committee next year, please contact the Society.

Spalding & District Civic Society are offering the opportunity to learn about the work of the Georgian Group which is dedicated to promoting and protection of our Georgian built heritage our AGM on Tuesday 7th April 2026.

The Georgian Group has been campaigning for the preservation of eighteenth and early nineteenth century buildings and their settings since its creation in 1937. Since 1971 it has been a statutory consultee in England and Wales where works of demolition are proposed to listed buildings. It now receives around 6,000 notifications a year together with hundreds of requests for advice from the general public and local civic societies throughout the country.

The talk will outline the history of the Group from its aristocratic and often eccentric founders who were primarily concerned to avert the destruction of Georgian London to the present. The talk also aims to give an overview of the wide variety of cases The Georgian Group now advises upon on a day-to-day basis, from the conversion of houses in Lincolnshire market towns to houses of multiple occupation, to church reordering schemes, major works to country houses, and largescale city centre redevelopment projects. It will also aim to explain how you can involve the Georgian Group in a local campaign and help The Group in its work.

The talk will be given by James Darwin, Head of Casework at the Georgian Group. He was also formerly an Inspector in the Midlands Team at Historic England and a Caseworker for the Victorian Society, another national statutory consultee in the planning system in England & Wales.