Strategic Partner

MCS welcomes expressions of interest from potential Strategic partners who share one or more of our objectives and wish to align themselves with us.

Our Strategic Partners

Merseyside Building Preservation Trust

In March 2025, MCS was proud to welcome Merseyside Building Preservation Trust (MBPT) as our first Strategic Partner.

Established in 1988, Merseyside Buildings Preservation Trust is a registered charity that works on a not-for-profit basis to rescue at risk heritage buildings for the benefit of the people of Merseyside.

They act as a catalyst, using their imagination, the experience of their board, their networks and knowledge of built heritage and the development and funding markets, to make things happen.

They save buildings from ruin in Merseyside and help find new uses for them.

They have successfully  contributed to saving  buildings such as the Florence Institute in Liverpool 8, 72 and 100 Huskisson Street in Liverpool’s Georgian Quarter and buildings in Mount Pleasant and Shaw Street.

Current projects include the Welsh Presbyterian Church in Liverpool 8 and the Wellington Rooms in Mount Pleasant.

For more information see Home – Merseyside Buildings Preservation Trust

Strategic Partnership in Action

Following discussions with MBPT in 2023, MCS set up a new sub group, Heritage Watch in 2024. Steve Power, Chair of Merseyside Building Preservation Trust agreed to chair Heritage Watch.

Together with other partners such as Liverpool City Council, Historic England, National Lottery Heritage Fund, and the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority,  Heritage Watch aims to re-launch the highly successful Stop The Rot Campaign that drew attention to, and found end users for  many remarkable Buildings at Risk in the City Region during the early 2000s.

We hope to launch Stop The Rot 2 during 2025.