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Continue readingThe Climate Heritage Network (CHN) has opened invitations to join in and help advance the experiences of CHN members and their communities as, to mark CHN’s birthday on 24 October, it is launching ‘Culture for Climate: CHN Birthday Month – From Local Action to COP31’.
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The IHBC’s first joint Branch event is a National-Branch CPD Partnership event organised by IHBC London Branch, IHBC South East and IHBC South Branch, supported by London Branch Consultant Claire Hegarty, exploring Enforcement and taking place on 27 October in person in London and Online, with IHBC members and non-members welcome, from £15!
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The IHBC is delighted to announce the launch of its new Annual School website, featuring exciting updates on our 2027 School, across Bristol & Bath from 10–12 June, exploring ‘Climate Change & Significance’, with conservation professionals from across the UK and beyond enjoying up to three days and more of learning, discussion, exhibits and networking.
School Bookings open February 2027. Register for updates here.
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The IHBC 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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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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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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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 World Architecture Festival (WAFG) features ‘Le Corbusier and the stones of Istanbul’.
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Major works to protect the medieval spire of Glasgow Cathedral have started, bringing a visible change to the city’s skyline, reports Historic Environment Scotland.
Continue readingDerelict high street buildings will be transformed into shared workspaces, cafes and community hubs, to bring people back into town centres as part of a £210m package.
Continue readingScotland’s 32 councils could be replaced by as few as six regional authorities, the government has suggested.
Continue readingThe National Lottery Community Fund (NLCF) has suggested that the language underpinning its good cause funding remit should be modernised.
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The bishop of Bathurst, New Brunswick, says he hopes to have discussions with the city’s mayor about how to save the city’s historic Sacred Heart Cathedral, currently slated for demolition next spring, writes The Catholic Register.
Continue readingThe IHBC is delighted to announce the launch of its new Annual School website, featuring exciting updates on our 2027 School, across Bristol & Bath from 10–12 June, exploring ‘Climate Change & Significance’, with conservation professionals from across the UK and beyond enjoying up to three days and more of learning, discussion, exhibits and networking.
School Bookings open February 2027. Register for updates here.
Continue readingThe IHBC’s first joint Branch event is a National-Branch CPD Partnership event organised by IHBC London Branch, IHBC South East and IHBC South Branch, supported by London Branch Consultant Claire Hegarty, exploring Enforcement and taking place on 27 October in person in London and Online, with IHBC members and non-members welcome, from £15!
Continue readingimage: 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.
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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A mini-series of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain (SAHGB) podcasts is available, funded by the RIBA and hosted by Jess Kelly and Claire Jamieson.
Continue readingThe City of London Corporation has welcomed a major decision for City Plan 2040 after the independent Planning Inspectorate concluded that its approach to managing tall buildings around the Tower of London World Heritage Site, strikes a better balance between heritage protection and economic growth, than the alternative proposed by Historic England (HE).
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The 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 Council call for an accredited architectural team for repairs to a Grade I listed and Scheduled Monument, to 29/10 and valued £120K.
Continue readingBath could temporarily give up being a UNESCO world heritage site in order to build new suburbs, reports Somerset Live.
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image for illustration: Tony Atkin, Hayle Parish Church, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
74 heritage and faith buildings including churches, synagogues, town halls and castles will receive support from the Places of Worship Renewal Fund and the Heritage at Risk Capital Fund.
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image: Heritage Street Bridge on the Digbeth Canal by Phillip Jeffrey, CC-BY-SA-2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
The Canal & River Trust is launching an innovation prospectus inviting researchers, businesses and investors to help tackle climate change and unlock new value from the country’s largest interconnected freshwater network.
Continue readingScotland’s Centre of Excellence for Canals and Traditional Skills is to house national facility for the retrofit of traditional buildings, with £1m from UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) via Research Infrastructure for Conservation and Heritage Science (RICHeS).
Continue readingThe Heritage Railway Association Annual Awards 2027 are now open for entries, with a brand-new category that recognises life-long achievement in the sector, all closing 9/11.
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