About AE Heritage
AE Heritage was founded by Amanda and Elanor after years of working together in heritage regeneration. Based in the North East of England, we can support projects throughout the UK via our amazing network of associates.
We are committed to heritage-led regeneration projects that have local communities at their heart. With a deep-rooted passion for the conservation and creative re-imagining of historic buildings, spaces and landscapes, we aim to safeguard these wonderful places for future generations.
We specialise in offering creative solutions and our passion lies in working closely with clients and communities, taking local people together on a journey to ensure a legacy for the future. We love working on small and large projects and look to identify and deliver solutions that are bespoke and right for a place and the people who care for it, and that are meaningful and authentic. We build in sustainability from the start, seeking to create change that conserves significance whilst ensuring financial and sustainability and achieving social impact. We work with all kinds of clients, including private owners, volunteer and community groups, and local, regional and national agencies.
We love working on projects large and small, and our commitment is to excellence and authenticity, and our focus is to help create successful , award winning heritage attractions, to improve visitor experiences and to help all of our clients to develop sustainable projects.
Co-Director Elanor Johnson
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Elanor is a project and programme manager with over twenty years’ experience in the heritage sector, focused on community-led adaptive reuse projects, heritage skills, and supporting with rural and urban communities to care for their heritage assets. Her passion is for connecting people with place by creating sustainable futures for historic buildings that are financially viable, enhance local community life and provide opportunities for all.
Elanor is an experienced project, programme and change manager, with expertise in all stages of project development from options appraisal, feasibility assessment and business planning through to operation and evaluation. She also has extensive experience in delivering heritage skills training programmes on live construction sites.
Co-Director Amanda Gerry
Amanda has led a number of award-winning heritage-led regeneration projects across the country, with particular focus on community engagement, co-created interpretation, stakeholder partnership and creating sustainable futures for historic buildings that are warm, welcoming, financially viable, and provide opportunities for community empowerment.
Amanda has over 30 years of Project Management experience specialising in sustainable development and the not-for-profit sector. Having started her career in the military, she has held a number of project management roles in both the public and voluntary sectors. She is a member of The Historic Religious Buildings Alliance and is a City of Sunderland Cultural Ambassador promoting good practice, partnership working, community development and heritage regeneration across the Northeast. She represented Churches Conservation Trust at the AHRC funded ‘Mapping Contemporary Art in the Heritage Experience’ research project.
Amanda has various Project Management qualifications including Prince2 and is a member of IHBC
Associate - Isabel Assaly
Formerly Head of Regeneration at the Churches Conservation Trust (CCT), Isabel has over 20 years experience of working across the public, private and not-for-profit sectors to deliver urban and rural regeneration schemes with real social impact.
With a track record of successfully supporting communities to keep historic buildings open, in community ownership and relevant, Isabel has significant experience in fundraising and business planning. Prior to her work at CCT, Isabel worked for Natural England, working directly with Local Authorities to ensure that development proposals fully considered climate change and opportunities to protect and enhance site biodiversity and at the British Museum, working on the international loans programme.
Isabel is a PRINCE2 Project Manager with additional qualifications in historic building retrofit and sustainable development , is a member of IHBC and Grants Committee for the National Churches Trust.
Previous Clients
Previous clients include:
English Heritage Trust,
Historic England,
Historic Chapels Trust,
City of Sunderland Council,
Church Commissioners,
Individual Dioceses / PCC's including Middleton-in Teesdale, Brighton, Stockton
Tyne and Wear Building Preservation Trust
Bailiffgate Museum and gallery
Other associates
We have associates across the UK who we work with from time to time depending on the type / scale of the project, for example;
Planning / Conservation advice
Fundraising
Design
Quantity Surveyor services
Our award winning projects
We can't promise your project will be award winning too, but with our collaborative and
creative approach to regeneration we're hoping we can add your name here too.
2024 WINNER - Museums + Heritage Awards (Restoration or Conservation Project of the Year) - Sudbury Arts Centre
2024 HIGHLY COMMENDED - Civic Trust AABC Conservation Awards - 17Nineteen, Sunderland
2023 WINNER - RIBA Building of the Year (North-East), Conservation Award & Regional Award s- 17Nineteen, Sunderland
2022 WINNER - Georgian Group Architectural Awards (Best Re-use of a Georgian Building) - 17Nineteen, Sunderland
2022 WINNER - Museums + Heritage Awards (Restoration or Conservation Project of the Year) - 17Nineteen, Sunderland
2022 WINNER - Constructing Excellence North East Awards (Conservation and Regeneration) - 17Nineteen, Sunderland
2022 HIGHLY COMMENDED - Constructing Excellence National Awards (Conservation and Regeneration) - 17Nineteen, Sunderland
2022 HIGHLY COMMENDED - Brick Awards (Refurbishment) - 17Nineteen, Sunderland
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