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NADFAS Heritage Volunteers help to conserve our heritage both in Britain and in parts of Europe.
Heritage volunteers at work
The conservation of ecclesiastical textiles and preservation of books at The Shakespeare Centre are our two main areas of heritage volunteer work at present.
Since 2005 a group of volunteers has worked for a few hours every week to preserve a collection of extremely rare and beautiful books at The Birthplace Trust.
A team of textile volunteers undertake both new and conservation work.
A new altar frontal for St. Mary's, Warwick.
Strict guidelines exist for textile conservation work. It must be reversible and the item kept intact; so, when a request to restore a nineteenth century altar frontal from a Cotswold church was agreed, all relevant information was recorded and photographed so that it could be restored to the original appearance.
The completed project took 480 hours of work by four volunteers.
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