Monthly Archives: October 2011

In a letter to the Sunday Telegraph 20 major arts figures call for the inclusion of culture in the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) in response to the lack of recognition of culture and the arts in the Communities and … Continue reading →

An e-petition calling on the Home Office to amend the Scrap Metal Merchants Act 1964 – to prohibit cash transactions in an effort to reduce metal theft – has received over 16,000 signatures so far.   Metal theft is a … Continue reading →

Applications now open for part of the Catalyst fund as DCMS, Arts Council England (ACE) and the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) have announced further details of the £100 million Catalyst scheme to boost private giving to culture. The scheme is … Continue reading →

The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) has now launched its Skills Development Call, which aims to support institutions and other organisations in developing innovative, collaborative training packages that will meet a range of capacity issues in the arts and … Continue reading →

England’s biggest cities will be able to make a case for new powers to promote economic growth under new clauses agreed by Parliament as amendments to the Localism Bill, currently under scrutiny in the Lords.   This move has been … Continue reading →

Following assurances from the Prime Minister that the planning system should continue to serve the public interest by balancing social and environmental benefits with those of the economy, the National Trust has set out our positive vision including the top … Continue reading →

The Heritage Crafts Association (HCA) has announce that the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has pledged funding to develop a piece of research into the state of heritage craft skills, with the closing date 6pm on 17 October. … Continue reading →

An application for listed status for a scaffolding structure at the gateway to the UK’s largest illegal travellers’ site has been rejected by the Government on the advice of English Heritage.   Campaigners fighting moves by Basildon Council to evict … Continue reading →

The Tourist Boards of Stratford, Bath, Carlisle, Chester, York and Oxford have collaborated to produce a joint website highlighting the cities’ heritage and culture to holiday-makers.   The Heritage Cities site is designed to showcase the cities’ heritage offers and … Continue reading →

English Heritage (EH) has issued the Historic Environment Commissions Report for 2007-10, IMPACT, which for first time covers projects funded under the Historic Environment Enabling Programme (HEEP) and the Aggregate Levy Sustainability fund (ALSF).   EH is also reminding stakeholders … Continue reading →

The Archaeology Forum (TAF) has written to Greg Clarke to alert him to the impact of current cutbacks in local authority historic environment archaeology services.   The letter from TAF states: ‘As you will be aware, the Archaeology Forum is … Continue reading →

Richard McCarthy, director-general for neighbourhoods at the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) for eight years, and the senior civil servant in charge of delivering the Government’s Localism Bill is quitting Whitehall to join Capita Symonds, the private sector … Continue reading →

  The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) in a funding partnership with the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), have issued a joint call for outline proposals for two large research grants in the area of community engagement and … Continue reading →

The National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) and Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) are seeking to recruit trustees and committee members with closing dates of 17 and 31 October respectively.   Four trustees are sought to join the NHMF/HLF Board, and HLF … Continue reading →