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Save the date and register for the ‘RICHeS Access Fund Second Call’, opening 14/09, with Applicant Webinar, 21 October & further information and next steps (guidance being refreshed).

If you are an IHBC Full Member you can help evaluate the next generation of professionals, maintain our high standards, and earn valuable CPD along the way, by joining us as an IHBC Membership Assessor.

Please submit your Expression of Interest NOW HERE

Andrew Shepherd, Trustee and Chair of IHBC’s Membership and Ethics Committee said: ‘It is vital that established members come forward to join the Assessors panel so that their skills and experience can help to assess the burgeoning numbers seeking Full and Associate membership’.

image for illustration: Campbell Park, Milton Keynes by Paul Capewell, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The IHBC is delighted to help sponsor The Gardens Trust exploration of ‘New Town Landscapes: Learning from the Past, Shaping the Future’ which will be held in Milton Keynes on 23/24 September.

The IHBC is delighted to announce the launch of a new Early Career Network, to support the next generation of heritage and conservation practitioners, players and professionals, inspired by a new Early Career Working Group initiative.

SIGN UP HERE for the IHBC’s Early Careers Network

_{image: Worcester Cathedral interior by Steve McLeish for IHBC Annual School 2016}

This IHBC and our West Midlands Branch will join the next West Midlands Heritage Trust (WMHT) Careers Fair, which will come to Worcester Cathedral on 21 October 2026.

image: Mat Fascione / St Andrew’s Church on Jarrom Street, Leicester CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

The Church Times reports that Canon Johannes Arens has confirmed the fire at St Andrew’s Jarrom Street in Leicester was an accident and not a result of arson.