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- Career conscious & in conservation? IHBC’s ‘Jobs etc.’ services spans disciplines, levels & sectors, linked by interdisciplinary conservation practice standards delivering public benefit 25/11/2025
- IHBC’s 2025 Parliamentary Briefing launches research-led ‘5 Commitments to Help Heritage Skills in Conservation’… From Crafts in Crisis to Rubbish in Retrofit 25/11/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Evaluation’ Signpost from Sheehan Quirke via Open Culture: ‘How did the world get so ugly?’ 25/11/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (duplicate) doorstep’: Plans for first Iron Age broch ‘in 2000 years’ approved for Highlands 25/11/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (Lottery) doorstep’: Historic Birnbeck pier saved as surprise funding announced from NLHF 25/11/2025
- ‘Natural England’s Strategy: Recovering Nature for Growth, Health and Security’ – with ‘nature as essential to sustaining growth and a healthy society’ 25/11/2025
- HE & ACE issue first parts of suite of guidance, templates and factsheets etc. 25/11/2025
- Government’s Pride in Place: Strategy update 25/11/2025
- Winners of the Georgian Group Architectural Awards announced! 25/11/2025
- Joining the dots: A single EDI portal for the sector 25/11/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Worker dies after partial collapse of medieval tower in Rome 25/11/2025
- IHBC’s 2025 Parliamentary Briefing launches research-led ‘5 Commitments to Help Heritage Skills in Conservation’… From Crafts in Crisis to Rubbish in Retrofit 21/11/2025
- IHBC welcomes new joint CEOs at Historic England to post 21/11/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Research’ Signpost from the NT: Public First report on ‘Local history, local heritage and local pride, in Coventry and across the UK’ 21/11/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Plans to turn three local villages into town to ‘help protect green belt’ backed by residents 21/11/2025
- Parliamentary Committee: Nature not a ‘blocker’ to housing; needed for ‘resilient towns & neighbourhoods’, and calls for housebuilding target changes and reduced VAT (for retrofitting) 21/11/2025
- Housebuilding around train stations will be given default ‘yes’, including in Green Belt, as: ‘Builders Speechless’ 21/11/2025
- RTPI’s State of the Profession 2025 reports across UK: One in five planners expected to leave the profession within three years, with no clear plan to replace them 21/11/2025
- TCPA Blog: Review of Homes England’s Healthy Homes Standard: Our homes are not islands 21/11/2025
- Public Practice: Recruitment & Skills Report 2025 21/11/2025
- NCT’s National Churches Survey – giving every church a voice 21/11/2025
- New APPG for National Parks and National Landscapes launched 21/11/2025
- Heritage Alliance awarded National Lottery Heritage Fund grant for Resilience Project 21/11/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: WMF welcomes Belfast City Council’s decision to purchase Assembly Rooms 21/11/2025
- IHBC’s new Context, No185, ‘lifts the lid on roofing’, from craft to carbon, with essential, accessible CPD for Conservation Professionals & colleagues 18/11/2025
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AHF: £400K+ grants help communities rescue & repurpose England’s Historic Buildings
The Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF) is very pleased to announce that it has awarded additional grants through the Heritage Revival Fund, with £424,738 given in support of nine different projects in June, ranging from a former parish school in Gateshead … Continue reading
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IStructE: Drought, prolonged dry weather, and heatwaves – subsidence risks could increase… and the signs to check
The Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE) explains what an increase in subsidence problems could mean, and the signs to look out for so that homeowners are aware.
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Tagged building, climate change, engineers, environment, expertise, skills, structures, subsidence, water, weather
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HE issues amended HEA Note 10 on ‘Listed Buildings and Curtilage’: … for the LPA to conclude..
image for illustration: Joanna Theobald Historic England’s (HE’s) Planning Bulletin from June has noted the amended update of its ‘HEAN 10: Listed Buildings and Curtilage (June 2025)’, noting that it is ‘for the local planning authority [LPA] to reach a … Continue reading
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BBC: National Trust blames tax rises as it cuts 550 jobs
The National Trust has announced plans to cut 6% of its current workforce, about 550 jobs, partly blaming an inflated pay bill and tax rises.
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Spirit of 2012: Research, learning and insights measure wellbeing to understand the value for money of Spirit of 2012 grants
Spirit of 2012 is the London 2012 social legacy organisation offering research, learning and insights from over a decade of funding projects to inspire a social legacy.
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AHF Publishes 2024/25 Impact Report
The Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF) is sharing its fifth annual Impact Report.
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Tagged architecture, conservation, expertise, funding, heritage, reporting
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SAVE at 50! Fundraising appeal aims for £100K
image for illustration SAVE Britain’s Heritage – SAVE – is 50 this year, and asking for donors to be part of its anniversary year for which there is ongoing appeal with a target of £100,000.
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HEF with HE issue England’s new ‘Historic Environment Overview’: Celebrating ‘impact of… strategic collaboration’
image for illustration: Fiona Newton The latest edition of the ‘Historic Environment Overview’ has been issued by Historic Environment Forum (HEF), with support from Historic England (HE).
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SPAB ‘Old House Project’ completes, and now for sale ‘to become a home’
image for illustration: SPAB The SPAB team is delighted that the seven-year Old House Project is now completed as the house, St Andrew’s Chapel is for sale, ready to become a home again.
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New Coalition to save Peter Womersley’s Bernat Klein Studio
image for illustration: Bernat Klein Studio 2010 by Jonathan Oldenbuck, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons The Bernat Klein Foundation (BKF), the National Trust for Scotland and Scottish Historic Buildings Trust (SHBT) have launched a coalition bid, supported by The … Continue reading
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Volunteering is thriving – Just not where you’ve been looking: We are parts of something bigger
If volunteering is really in crisis, why are so many volunteer-led organisations flourishing, asks Reach Volunteering?
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Wales’ Commission for Tertiary Education and Research (‘Medr’) launches Strategic Plan 2025-2030
The Medr Strategic Plan sets out ambitions for a collaborative tertiary education and research sector, as part of its response to the Welsh Government’s strategic priorities for tertiary education and research.
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£380 million boost for creative industries to help drive innovation, regional growth and investment
Thousands of creative professionals and businesses across the UK are set to benefit from a new £380 million investment package as part of the Creative Industries Sector Plan. GOV.UK writes:
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HE: Uncovering local history hidden on our streets
image for illustration: Joanna Theobald We are surrounded by historic designs and constructions that were initially invented for everyday purposes says Historic England (HE), and the details and tiny variations of these objects can help tell what was happening in … Continue reading
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Engine Shed on ‘Fire Safety Management in Traditional Buildings for Dutyholders’
A Engine Shed publication offers a short guide to ‘Fire Safety Management in Traditional Buildings for Dutyholders’.
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Centre for Cities: Five reforms to anti-supply measures to boost urban housebuilding
image for illustration The new Centre for Cities report – Breaking the Bottlenecks – sets out a range of anti-supply measures the Government should reform to reach its target for 1.5 million new homes.
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Welsh Planning Reforms to ‘…. speed up infrastructure decisions and create jobs..’, to make ‘… Wales the fastest country in the UK for determining planning applications’
Reforms aimed at making Wales the fastest country in the UK for determining planning applications, creating new jobs and driving economic growth have been unveiled.
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HES: National campaign, ‘Historic Places, Breathing Spaces’, calls on all to ‘connect with heritage to boost.. wellbeing…’
image for illustration: Fiona Newton Historic Environment Scotland (HES) is calling for people across the country to connect with heritage to boost their wellbeing as a part of a national campaign, Historic Places, Breathing Spaces following a recent survey.
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England’s Dormant Assets Scheme: Forgotten assets to help families and young people thrive
The England’s first ever Dormant Assets Scheme Strategy unlocks £440 million funding.
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MPs say ‘Warm homes retrofit failures pushing UK clean, secure energy targets further off track’
A new report sets out practical measures needed to provide essential certainty and confidence for households and supply chains.
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Scotland’s urgent Church Challenge helped by National Lottery Heritage Fund Grant to Scotland’s Churches Trust & Soc Ant Scot
image for illustration: St John’s, Ballachulish by Fiona Newton The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (Soc Ant Scot) and Scotland’s Churches Trust have announced a £229,015 grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund to help ensure a sustainable future for … Continue reading
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CMS Select Committee update on protecting built heritage, hear calls for end to ‘boom and bust’ heritage funding
MPs in the course of evidence given to the Culture Media and Sport (CMS) Select Committee on protecting built heritage were told that time-limited grants and skills gaps in heritage crafts and trades are among challenges facing the sector, reports … Continue reading
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CoE: Major refurbishment of Lambeth Palace completed
image for illustration: Lambeth Palace Restored by Unknown, painting of 1715, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons The three-year project refurbishing Lambeth Palace, launched by the Church Commissioners in summer 2022, is the first refurbishment of the Grade I listed heritage … Continue reading
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Kicking restoration of Parliament down the road risks disaster, authorities told
A Labour former cabinet minister highlighted ‘a real danger of a Notre Dame-type inferno or something worse’ unless action is taken.
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University of Cambridge on ‘The Business Case for Integrated Retrofit: How banks, insurers, and the government can support healthy, efficient, and resilient homes’
A joint research between Banking Environment Initiative and ClimateWise examines the socioeconomic and resilience benefits of building retrofit, and proposes business case for banks, insurance companies, and the government.
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