Impact in the UK
Watch Listing has kick-started a number of previously stalled projects in the UK. Sites such as St Francis and Gorton Monastery, Manchester (Listed in 1998 and again in 2000) and St George’s, Bloomsbury (2002) were deemed to be beyond help. When the derelict monastery of St Francis and Gorton was included on the same list as the Taj Mahal in 1998, it received huge amounts of publicity. The site became known as ‘Manchester’s Taj Mahal’, which was vital in their subsequent fundraising success.
"The intervention of the World Monuments Fund, putting Stow Minster on its 2006 watch list, as one of the world's one hundred most endangered important buildings, provided a spur to action that has resulted in a five year plan to repair and conserve the church. The listing helped attract grants from English Heritage, Lincolnshire Old churches Trust and other organisations. We are not out of the woods yet, and there is still a shortfall of funding to address, but WMF's interest and attention has taken us a long way down the path of securing for the future this wonderful building." Peter J Leonard
Covered by UK national media
The List is regularly covered by the UK national media, most national broadsheets as well as BBC and ITV news programmes and radio. Significant publicity was generated as a result of Listing Battersea Power Station in London (2004) and further afield with Shackleton’s Hut (2004).
