Southern Heritage Trust

Become a Trust member

Become a member of the Southern Heritage Trust and help to promote the appreciation and preservation of Otago’s social, cultural, architectural and industrial heritage.

You can play a vital role in the work of the Trust and your subscription
will help to fund our activities.

As a member of the Trust you will enjoy the following benefits:
•    receive regular newsletters
•    take part in Trust functions, tours and other heritage related activities and events
•    receive a 10% discount on all Trust products.

There are several aspects of our work in which you can become involved if you wish, for example:

•    publications: information search, writing, editing, proofreading, photography, graphic design
•    trails: development of new trails, trail guiding
•    rosters/reception: Sexton’s Cottage, Savoy afternoon teas, Gasworks Museum
•    website: updating, data input
•    fundraising

You are also welcome to make a tax deductible donation to the work of the Trust.

Joining the Trust;

To dowmload a membership application form click here

Latest News
EVENT OF THE MONTH The Event of the Month for September will be the Savoy Afternoon Tea on Wednesday 8 September, which will be a Celebration of Spring. There is no Special Event in August.

Southern Heritage Sites: Otago Trails

This website offers a number of carefully designed themed trails which will allow you to explore selected aspects of heritage throughout Otago or simply to investigate the heritage of a particular locality.; Northern Cemetery

This website brings together information from many different research sources to offer you a unique view of one of New Zealand's most interesting cemeteries.
The cemetery remembers many of Dunedin's and New Zealand's early settlers and founding residents, such as entrepreneur William Larnach, Charles Speight and Poet, Legislator and Journalist Thomas Bracken.; Dunedin Gasworks Museum

"The Dunedin Gas Works Museum is one of only three preserved gasworks in the world, and by far the best and most complete", says Sir Neil Cossons, former Chairman of English Heritage and a noted authority on the history of industrial archaeology, museums and conservation. The Dunedin Gasworks Museum is important as the only surviving and preserved example of a city gasworks where the process is explained and the equipment demonstrated.