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The IHBC hosted a stall at the recent sell-out Heritage Network Conference 2026 in Northern Ireland, and was delighted to share congratulations and celebrations with Alice Ullathorne IHBC as she marked her first year as Chair of the Network at a conference that reached from Belfast to Armagh (and beyond)!
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David McDonald OBE, IHBC Chair, and IHBC President Rebecca Thompson, have written to members and prospective members asking for input to the consultation around our next Corporate Plan, for 2026-30, (‘CP30’), with responses sought by 30 October 2026.
IHBC Members: If you have not received your email on the consultation contact Lydia at admin@ihbc.org.uk with your membership number
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The IHBC is has opened nominations for the next IHBC-MARSH Awards, under its new schedule, from 30 September to 15 December for 2026, offering awards that celebrate ‘Learning in Heritage Skills’ and ‘Community Contributions by Retired members’.
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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).
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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.
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image for illustration: Mallaig by Bradscorner, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Scotland’s Historic Environment Audit 2026 highlights the contribution Scotland’s historic environment makes to the economy, communities, wellbeing and sustainable places
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New research from the Cathedrals’ Workshop Fellowship (CWF) has examined the workforce, training and organisational conditions needed to sustain the specialist skills that care for England’s cathedrals
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IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance scheme for heritage services – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and this week features the New Civil Engineer (NCE) on ‘Ireland’s infrastructure threatened by climate change.’
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The modernist family home designed by architects Richard?+?Su Rogers?that inspired some of the world’s most celebrated buildings has been given to the National Trust for the nation by the Rogers family.
Continue readingGovernment UK has announced the next wave of the Common Ground Award provides up to £2.5m for projects, groups and organisations bringing people together and transforming their community.
Continue readingThe Speaker, Sir Lindsay Hoyle MP, has announced that Ms Abena Oppong-Asare MP has been elected Chair of the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee
Continue readingHistoric England has issued a new and comprehensive economic valuation study of England’s archaeological activity.
Continue readingRegenEU is calling for submissions for a special issue of the scientific journal Glocalism entitled ‘Urban planning in times of policrisis’, exploring the future of urban planning in a time of multiple and interconnected challenges.
Continue readingThe IHBC is has opened nominations for the next IHBC-MARSH Awards, under its new schedule, from 30 September to 15 December for 2026, offering awards that celebrate ‘Learning in Heritage Skills’ and ‘Community Contributions by Retired members’.
Continue readingDavid McDonald OBE, IHBC Chair, and IHBC President Rebecca Thompson, have written to members and prospective members asking for input to the consultation around our next Corporate Plan, for 2026-30, (‘CP30’), with responses sought by 30 October 2026.
IHBC Members: If you have not received your email on the consultation contact Lydia at admin@ihbc.org.uk with your membership number
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image for illustration: Chris CC BY-SA 2.0 vis Wikimedia Commons
A recent IHBC online discussion covered the wide-ranging implications for conservation in England’s new National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), complement a raised profile as IHBC Chair, David McDonald OBE, fronts some early thoughts picked up by Planning Resource.
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The IHBC’s 2026 Yearbook is our network’s essential sector guide, reference and review for 2026-27, complementing our 2026 Newcastle School, with IHBC updates and a foreword by Jan Bessell FRTPI, 2026 RTPI President, who supports ‘conservation planning’ as ‘… a creative, collaborative and cohesive force for good in the public interest’.
Continue readingCathedrals Workshop Fellowship has issued new research showing how ‘England’s cathedrals do not simply contain heritage craft… They sustain it.’
Continue readingThe National Trust Annual Report offers ‘some of the successes we couldn’t have achieved without your help.’
Continue readingThe IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance service – sends members exclusive ‘News and Tender Alerts’, with the Director’s top taster for NewsBlog readers this week a call by national body and estate holder establishing a joint Framework Agreement for services, to 22/10 and valued £4M.
Continue readingMayors and local leaders will be given new powers with a levy on overnight stays as part of a devolution drive to shift power out of Westminster, reports Government UK.
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image: Brownfield near Leeds, PastekLeodensian, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
New research from the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) shows that there is now enough brownfield land in England for more than 1.54 million new homes, enough to exceed the government’s entire 1.5 million target.
Continue readingParliament’s Environmental Audit Committee is inviting evidence on a range of topics linked to Climate Adaptation’, to 21 October.
Continue readingConstruction Industry Council(CIC) is urging government to work with the built environment professions to build competence and ensure the regulatory vision is both proportionate and dynamic enough to succeed.
Continue readingThe number of young people joining the National Trust has soared for a second consecutive year, according to the charity’s annual report, released today.
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