A contract renewal has been signed at the Signet Library to continue our successful 25-year partnership with Heritage Portfolio Limited for hospitality. Extending the relationship for another 12 years, the new contract will see Heritage Portfolio investing in a series of improvements to both front- and back-of-house facilities to enhance the experience at the Signet Library.
Among Heritage Portfolio’s investment commitments is a significant contribution to the funding of a lift in the entrance lobby to achieve step-free access to the Upper Library. With over 10,500 guests attending being served in the building over the course of this year, it is of the utmost importance that this long-planned solution is implemented. With the support of the Keeper of the Signet, Lady Elish Angiolini LT KC, Deputy Keeper Jim Cormack WS KC and his fellow-trustees are embarking on raising the remaining investment required from charitable and philanthropic sources.
Everything Heritage Portfolio do at the Signet Library expresses the Signet Library’s brand, which is consistent across the remarkable range of activities and events that take place in this most charismatic of buildings. Whether it’s being admitted as a Writer to the Signet, attending a CPD conference, submitting a legal research enquiry, taking a historical tour, hearing a lecture, consulting archives, being served at Colonnades, getting married, attending a formal dinner, or just walking through the door — the experience will balance modernity and continuity and reflect our values of excellence, permanence, and integrity.
For a quarter of a century, the Signet Library has enjoyed a strategic partnership with Heritage Portfolio to help deliver on that promise. Long may it continue to do so.