The IHBC has taken a major step forward in delivering key 2025 Parliamentary Commitments with Board agreement to join the National Federation of Builders (NFB) Heritage Skills Forum… ‘strengthening coordination… advocacy and… the skills our workforce needs’.
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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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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Applications are now open for Bursaries for the IHBC Annual School 2027, hosted in Bristol & Bath from 10 to 12 June, exploring the theme ‘Climate Change & Significance’, as we bring together conservation professionals from across the UK and beyond for three days of learning, discussion and networking, to 1 February 2027.
Applications close 1 February 2027. Find out more here.
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A study by the UCL Bartlett School of Planning evaluated homes created through Permitted Development Rights (PDR) and revealed significant quality and health concerns compared to traditional residential developments.
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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 Guardian on Clifton Suspension Bridge as ‘A big responsibility’.
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image: The Leas Cliff Lift, Folkestone by pam fray, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Folkestone’s Leas Lift has reported on a major milestone in its restoration, with its two historic carriages returning to the site and being lifted back onto the track.
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image: Fiona Newton, IHBC
A new £3.8m funding programme to support improvements to Edinburgh’s public cultural and heritage buildings has opened for applications, reports the City of Edinburgh Council (CEC).
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Construction is underway on Central Hall and Railway Futures: The Porterbrook Gallery at the National Railway Museum, marking an exciting new chapter in its transformation.
Continue readingGriff Rhys Jones and the Victorian Society are calling on people across England and Wales to nominate threatened Victorian and Edwardian buildings for the landmark twentieth edition of its Top Ten Endangered Buildings list, open to 4 January 2027.
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The National Trust has announced that ‘a beloved London institution once frequented by Charles Dickens and Charlie Chaplin’ has been secured for the future, with donated of Rules, ‘London’s oldest restaurant’ by its owner, J-P Mayhew.
Continue readingIf you work with a place that is culturally significant and are ready to take action to safeguard from climate change, aply to the Climate Heritage Cohort Program a program with tailored training, tools, networking, and funding, open to January 8, 2027.
Continue readingIHBC has welcomed the strategic and ambitious vision for the historic environment of Northern Ireland and offered to take an active role in partnership for the delivery of a new ‘Historic Environment Policy for Northern Ireland’.
Continue readingIHBC’s newest CPD Circular lists current accessible & cost-effective ‘Continuing Professional Development’ (CPD) including from local Branches, IHBC Recognised CPD Providers and more (NB: New linked Events Calendar under reconstruction).
Continue readingThe 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’.
Continue readingApplications are now open for Bursaries for the IHBC Annual School 2027, hosted in Bristol & Bath from 10 to 12 June, exploring the theme ‘Climate Change & Significance’, as we bring together conservation professionals from across the UK and beyond for three days of learning, discussion and networking, to 1 February 2027.
Applications close 1 February 2027. Find out more here.
Continue readingThe RICHeS Access Fund offers up to £20K to help heritage professionals etc. access expertise, collections & equipment etc., and its Second Call is open to 15/12.
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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 pick this week is a BID’s call for a multidisciplinary team for a scoping study of its neighbourhood retail areas, to 20/11 & £40k.
Continue readingThe industry has given a guarded but mainly positive response to the plans, albeit with the criticism, reports Specification Online.
Continue readingPlans to demolish two historic Teesside railway bridges have been thrown into doubt after the related planning application was withdrawn by Stockton Borough Council, writes The Northern Echo.
Continue readingA new Westminster Green Plaque has been unveiled in Farm St, Mayfair celebrating Charles Amherst Villiers, the pioneering engineer whose remarkable career stretched from the Blower Bentley to Formula One, the US space programme and the world of James Bond.
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image: Heritage Tram on Blackpool Promenade by Stephen Armstrong, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Four places are now in the running for the UK City of Culture 2029 title and a £10 million prize.
Continue readingLocal History Hub has announced it is exploring the development of a new School & Heritage Consultancy offer.
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image: The Burges by Ian Capper, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF) has awarded four new grants, totalling £1,074,223, through the Heritage Revival Fund, including two Project Development Grants and two Capital Grants.
Continue readingThe European Partnership for Resilient Cultural Heritage has launched its first Joint Transnational Call (JTC): ‘Foundations for climate-resilient cultural heritage: Assessing and managing impact and risk, dealing with damage and loss’.
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