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- IHBC’s ‘Special Thanks’ to 2025’s Student Award entrants, as 49 seek prizes (to £500) & places at #IHBCNewcastle2026 17/10/2025
- IHBC welcomes Campaign for National Parks success as ‘plans to weaken protected landscapes duty quietly dropped’ 17/10/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Practice’ Signpost: Traditional and historic buildings – a new Retrofit British Standard, an update from IHBC’s John Edwards, with joint CPD webinar 14/11 17/10/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Director’s pick’ from HESPR’s £495K+ of weekly works: Welsh Council seeks team for urban hub, to 31/10 and c.£75K 17/10/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’ (& ‘Evaluation’ signpost!): ‘History of the Pioneering Stockton and Darlington Railway’ via HE 17/10/2025
- National Audit Office: Weak controls and oversight blamed for faulty home installations under energy efficiency scheme 17/10/2025
- New UK Town of Culture competition to celebrate our national story 17/10/2025
- THA Call for Case Studies for Heritage Debate 2025, to 24/10 17/10/2025
- New Towns Taskforce: Report to government published 17/10/2025
- Communities to ‘seize control over high streets and restore pride’ 17/10/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Creative Health – UK & Ireland State of the Sector Survey, to 31 October 17/10/2025
- Context 184 under the spotlight: IHBC’s accessible CPD for Conservation Professionals, featuring Past President Mike Brown’s Vox Pop 14/10/2025
- IHBC’s Communications and Outreach Strategy 2025-28 now online 14/10/2025
- IHBC’s Annual School ‘Save the Date’ notice & Home Page launch: IHBC’s 2026 Newcastle School, 18-20 June, on ‘Adaptive Reuse’ & up to 20 hours CPD – accessible, interdisciplinary, cost-effective 14/10/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: GII Coventry Baths demolition approved by Historic England 14/10/2025
- Government responds to Parliamentary Report on Home Retrofitting with £13.2bn programme 14/10/2025
- HH: Lack of support from Scottish Government threatening heritage tourism sector 14/10/2025
- People across the country set to benefit from £4M boost to improve accessibility to arts and culture: Open to 14/11 14/10/2025
- THA’s Heritage and Placemaking Survey and Call for Case Studies – they want to hear from you… by 17 October 14/10/2025
- BSRIA: Wellbeing in Buildings (TG 10/2025) 14/10/2025
- ‘Remaking the relationship between citizens and the built environment’, a blog via Demos 14/10/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Heritage home in Canada demolished despite Heritage Act 14/10/2025
- Career conscious & in conservation? IHBC’s ‘Jobs etc.’ reaches across disciplines, levels & sectors, from charities – led here by Scotland & CEOs – to Officers (LG) Inspectors (HE) & more 10/10/2025
- Context 184 under the spotlight: IHBC’s accessible CPD for Conservation Professionals, offers insights into ‘The world of generative AI’ 10/10/2025
- IHBC welcomes Gardens Trust report into the role of historic parks and gardens in the 21st century 10/10/2025
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IHBC’s ‘Director’s pick’ from HESPR’s £595K of weekly works: Council seeks architectural practice with conservation lead for ‘iconic project’ to 10/03 and £500K
The IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance service – emails members regular ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and the IHBC Director’s pick this week is a call from a City Council for an … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Lewes’ Gail’s makes fresh bid to keep new doors
A high end bakery chain is making a fresh attempt to keep the modern glass doors it has installed in a listed building in Lewes, reports Sussex News.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: ‘What’s URBACT up to in 2025?’
As we step into the new year, Urbact has shared it 2025 milestones.
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IHBC’s February ‘CPD Circular’: For cost-conscious and time-sensitive conservation learning – events, awards, calls and more – including welcomes to new Providers
IHBC’s new CPD Circular offers our current listing of accessible, cost-effective ‘Continuing Professional Development’ (CPD) opportunities for historic and built environment conservation professionals and their networks, with the usual range of Branch and network events, publications, awards and more, and … Continue reading
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Nominations sought for IHBC’s TWO Marsh Awards: ‘Successful Learning’ AND/OR ‘Community Contribution (Retired Members) – to 31 March 2025
The two IHBC Marsh Awards, developed in partnership with the Marsh Charitable Trust, celebrate ‘Community Contributions’ by retired IHBC members, as well as ‘Successful Learning’ in heritage-related skills, with £500 and free places at IHBC’s 2025 Annual School in Shrewsbury … Continue reading
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IHBC calls for Vice President nominees (to 24/02): Help lead IHBC’s Council from our FIRST hybrid Council, from London and online, 24 March 2025 – ‘Statements’ due 24 February 2025
As procedures for the officers of the IHBC’s Council evolve, the IHBC seeks up to four suitably qualified nominees to serve as co-Vice President(s), to be appointed at Council’s FIRST blended meeting on 24 March 2025 (or after), with ‘Statements’ … Continue reading
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IHBC’s 2025 AGM is coming 13 May: To take your membership to a new level, as Trustee, be sure to · Check our guidance · Explore options with us · Sort your CPD · Submit your case
If you are interested in a voluntary role as an Trustee you can explore duties and obligations not only through our extensive online guidance, but also ‘in real life’ by contacting a trustee post-holder – direct or through your Branch … Continue reading
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IHBC Research Signpost: ‘Developing a People Centred Place-Led Approach: The Value of the Arts and Humanities’, from Glasgow University
image for illustration: Open Government Licence v3.0 Glasgow University reports that the AHRC Place-Based Research Programme Report Series, has issued a programme update on ‘Developing a People Centred Place-Led Approach: The Value of the Arts and Humanities’.
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IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’: Planning Resource on Reeves on the ‘boost infrastructure delivery’ plan
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 Planning Resource on Reeves on infrastructure delivery.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Historic seafront structures on Southsea Promenade Portsmouth restored as part of a coastal defence scheme
Seafront shelters and ornamental lamp columns have been restored as part of a long-running coastal defence scheme, reports the BBC Local News.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’:Britain’s oldest public beach hut set to be demolished by Council
image for illustration Britain’s oldest public beach hut is set to be demolished by Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council (BCP Council) reports The Daily Echo.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (UK’s) Global doorstep’: ‘Behind the Scenes’ at St. Paul’s Cathedral – Podcast now out from ACE
image for illustration: St Paul’s © User:Colin / Wikimedia Commons The Association for Cultural Enterprises has published an episode of their ‘Behind the Scenes’ podcast on St. Pauls Cathedral.
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IHBC’s newest ‘IHBC Branch Committee Bulletin, from the IHBC’s Director’: National Office updates for Committee Officers
The IHBC recently circulated a new ‘IHBC Branch Committee Bulletin, from the IHBC’s Director’, to update committees on strategic developments, so if you are keen to find out more on any points below, just check in with your Branch Officers.
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IHBC issues formal notice for 2025 AGM: 13 May 2025, 5.30pm for 6pm start, online
IHBC Chair David McDonald has written to all members of the IHBC with the date of and guidance on the 2025 AGM, to take place online on Tuesday 13 May 2024 at 6pm, with the full programme starting at 5.30pm’, … Continue reading
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Nominations sought for IHBC’s TWO Marsh Awards: ‘Successful Learning’ AND/OR ‘Community Contribution (Retired Members) – to 31 March 2025
The two IHBC Marsh Awards, developed in partnership with the Marsh Charitable Trust, celebrate ‘Community Contributions’ by retired IHBC members, as well as ‘Successful Learning’ in heritage-related skills, with £500 and free places at IHBC’s 2025 Annual School in Shrewsbury … Continue reading
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IHBC’s Council ‘Diary Date’: On 24 March, welcome IHBC’s next President Rebecca Thompson, new VPs, Mike Brown in new role, with Historic Estate Management CPD & more, all at IHBC’s FIRST hybrid Council, from London’s Charterhouse
image for illustration: Charterhouse by Stuart Taylor, CC BY-SA 2.0 IHBC’s next free online Council CPD, exclusive to all IHBC members, will take place on 24 March as a blended event from London’s Charterhouse, welcoming our Vice President Rebecca Thompson … Continue reading
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IHBC’s Research Signpost: HE’s Open Data Hub hosts reports, research and more
image for illustration Historic England (HE) publishes open data sets via its Open Data Hub, representing a critical resource for strategic heritage data.
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IHBC’s ‘Director’s pick’ from HESPR’s £1.3M+ of weekly works: Council seeks Landscape Architect for Lottery application, 17/02 and £45K
The IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance service – emails members regular ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and the IHBC Director’s pick this week is a call from an English Council for a … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Llandudno in mourning as Queen Victoria goes missing
image for illustration: Jubilee monument & fountain to Queen Victoria, Llandudno by Meirion, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons For 135 years, Queen Victoria gazed imperiously down on Llandudno Pier from her much-loved monument perch in the resort’s Happy Valley gardens… … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: World Monument Fund names the Moon as a threatened heritage site
image for illustration: Buzz Aldrin on the moon (Apollo 11, 1969) -by Neil A. Armstrong, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons As a new era of space exploration dawns, international collaboration is required to protect the physical remnants of early Moon … Continue reading
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IHBC issues formal notice for 2025 AGM: 13 May 2025, 5.30pm for 6pm start, online
IHBC Chair David McDonald has written to all members of the IHBC with the date of and guidance on the 2025 AGM, to take place online on Tuesday 13 May 2024 at 6pm, with the full programme starting at 5.30pm’, … Continue reading
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Nominations sought for IHBC’s TWO Marsh Awards: ‘Successful Learning’ AND/OR ‘Community Contribution (Retired Members) – to 31 March 2025
The two IHBC Marsh Awards, developed in partnership with the Marsh Charitable Trust, celebrate ‘Community Contributions’ by retired IHBC members, as well as ‘Successful Learning’ in heritage-related skills, with £500 and free places at IHBC’s 2025 Annual School in Shrewsbury … Continue reading
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IHBC calls for Vice President nominees (to 24/02): Help lead IHBC’s Council from our FIRST hybrid Council, in London and online, 24 March 2025 – ‘Statements’ due 24 February 2025
As procedures for the officers of the IHBC’s Council evolve, the IHBC seeks up to four suitably qualified nominees to serve as co-Vice President(s), to be appointed at Council’s FIRST blended meeting on 24 March 2025 (or after), with ‘Statements’ … Continue reading
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IHBC’s Council ‘Diary Date’: On 24 March, welcome IHBC’s next President Rebecca Thompson, new VPs, Mike Brown in new role, with Asset Management CPD & more, all at IHBC’s FIRST blended Council, from London’s Charterhouse
image for illustration: Charterhouse by Stuart Taylor, CC BY-SA 2.0 IHBC’s next free online Council CPD, exclusive to all IHBC members, will take place on 24 March as a blended event from London’s Charterhouse, welcoming our Vice President Rebecca Thompson … Continue reading
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IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’: Humanise on ‘The Boring Building Index’… and a call for pics!
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 Humanise on its ‘Boring Building Index’ with a call for … Continue reading
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