About Us

The Titanic Heritage Trust is the only international charitable trust set up to protect the history and name of RMS Titanic and those connected to it.

The Trust’s aim is to Preserve, Protect, Respect and Remember every aspect of world wide phenomenon which is TITANIC, including the lives lost, the skills used to construct Titanic, and the centralisation of the many artefacts to put on public display.

We are also appealing to private collectors nationwide to contact us with regard to participating in future Trust events and exhibitions.

The Trust has moved towards this aim by planning to establish a world heritage centre in a 100 acre site close to a major airport and all transport links. The plan for the Titanic Heritage Centre has a commitment to follow a Green policy with the use of renewable energy systems such as specially developed solar panels and wind turbines. It is proposed to plant a new tree for every person who was on board RMS Titanic when she sank as a tribute and at the same time contributing to the offsetting of Co2 levels.

The Heritage Centre is intended to house a visitors hub, educational and historical centre, displays of collated artefacts, a chapel of remembrance, gardens and woods.
A proposed hotel complex will also be built attracting visitors from all over the world.
To this end work to procure a suitable site has begun with negotiations currently underway to secure a preferred location that is sufficient in size to accommodate the expected visitor numbers and traffic.
Before 2012 together with conventions, nationwide fund raising initiatives and books of Remembrance across the country, we seek to preserve all aspects of the Titanic whilst encouraging Britain to be proud of the expertise that created such a ship that still exists today.
The Trust has a simple aim - to create a permanent heritage centre, to provide a place of dignity to remember those who were lost and to ensure that the British achievement is not lost to future generations.

Howard Nelson, Chairman and Founder of the Trust is enthusiastic. “There will be much to celebrate for the UK in 2010 and 2011 with the 100th anniversary of the building and launch of RMS Olympic and SS Nomadic. Plus in 2012 the London Olympics and RMS Titanic’s maiden voyage from Southampton and the tragedy of her sinking.
It is easy to forget that it was a vast British achievement designed, built and launched in Belfast, registered in Liverpool and departed from Berth 44 in Southampton on her legendary maiden voyage. April 10, her sailing date in 1912, was not so much a red letter day as a happy day, a “White Star Day.”