Save Europe’s Heritage was founded in 1995 as the sister charity of SAVE Britain’s Heritage. Save Europe’s Heritage has published press releases and reports on endangered great houses and cities in France, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Russia and Georgia. Save Europe’s Heritage has been involved in the hands-on rescue of a number of buildings including Sarny in Silesia and the Hessian Courthouse in Treffurt. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, SAVE Europe’s Heritage has taken part in campaigning to attempt to protect Ukraine’s heritage. This includes contributing to the successful campaign to grant Odesa World Heritage Site status.

Manifesto for Save Europe's Heritage

The UK may no longer be part of  the European block but we are a part of European culture. If SAVE Britain’s Heritage was set up in response to the European year of culture in 1975, Save Europe’s Heritage was set up in response to threats brought to the attention of SAVE, about historic buildings on the continent that stood empty and decaying or are threatened with demolition. Some were well-known, others deserved to be much better known. Building on the successes of SAVE Britain’s Heritage, Save Europe’s Heritage was founded.

The aims of Save Europe's Heritage are:

• To draw public attention to endangered historic buildings and places in the belief that publicity is an essential mean of prompting action and of finding people keen and able to save these buildings from their plight. Again and again, experience has shown that it takes only one dedicated individual or energetic local action group to save a fine building and give it a new lease of life.

• To put forward practical solutions for the rescue and use of historic buildings in danger in the recognition that only a small percentage of these buildings can be preserved purely as showplaces or museums.

• In exceptional cases, to prepare and implement schemes for the rescue of individual buildings to show that rescue is possible and viable.

• To learn from best practice in Europe, both in restoration techniques and approaches to reuse, and bring them to the attention of the UK public

To these ends Save Europe's Heritage will issue press releases, prepare feasibility studies, publish illustrated reports and mount exhibitions.

Save Europe's Heritage concern will extend to buildings of all dates, in the knowledge that outstanding buildings of recent date may be under imminent threat, and will extend to modest vernacular buildings as well as major architectural set pieces.