• Chapels are closing in Wales at the rate of one a week
• Many congregations are finding it impossible to maintain their buildings
• Each year large numbers of chapel records and documents are destroyed or lost, despite the fact that nonconformity is of great importance in the history both of Wales generally and of local communities
• Dozens of chapels are demolished each year, others are unsympathetically converted to other uses without first being photographed or recorded
• Many chapel buildings are of outstanding architectural interest but few are afforded protection by becoming listed buildings

• Encourage the study and preservation of the Nonconformist heritage of Wales
• Offer information and advice to congregations on ways to maintain and preserve their buildings
• Record and study chapel architecture
• Encourage chapels to safeguard their records
• Encourage sympathetic conversion of chapels no longer required for their original purpose