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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
Daily Archives: 09/04/2022
Check out #IHBCAberdeen2022 Day School SESSION 1: ‘Environment & Heritage management’ – join in person, or online from £25+VAT
After welcomes from Griff Rhys Jones and others, the first session of the IHBC’s Day School on 17 June focusses on the IHBC’s ‘Management’ Area of Competence, with the Chief Executive (CE) of South Georgia & The South Sandwich Islands, … Continue reading
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#IHBC Aberdeen2022 pre-school’ online CPD: John Edwards on IHBC ToolBox Retrofit Guidance (3/05) + Miles Glendinning on ‘mass housing’ and more (20/04)!
To prep for the Aberdeen School in June, 2 free IHBC ‘pre-School’ events are on offer: Scotland Branch’s online talk by Miles Glendinning on ‘mass housing…’ on 20 April, and Day School speaker John Edwards on the IHBC Toolbox ‘Retrofit … Continue reading
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IHBC’s Aberdeen School – #IHBCAberdeen2022 – School Bursaries still available, supported by the IHBC’s CREATIVE Conservation Fund: Apply Now!
Bursaries for the Aberdeen 2022 School are still available, supported by the IHBC’s CREATIVE Conservation Fund, so if you think you deserve one, apply now!
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IHBC responds to next iteration of Welsh Government’s Warm Homes Programme
The IHBC has submitted its response to the Welsh Government’s proposals for the next iteration of the Warm Homes Programme, welcoming the principle of eradicating fuel poverty but suggesting reasonable provision be made for historic and traditional buildings.
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IHBC’s HESPR pick from £92K+ works this week: DCs seeks area assessments, closing 29/04, valued to £30K
The IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance service – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and the Director’s pick this week features the call from District Councils for area assessments, closing … Continue reading
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European Heritage Heads Forum statement on Ukraine
The Secretariat to the European Heritage Heads Forum – an informal, professional and expert network for national heritage heads – has has coordinated its declaration of solidarity and support for Ukraine’s cultural heritage institutions.
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Nominations sought for UK’s next Unesco world heritage sites
Heritage Minister Nigel Huddleston has launched the call for new nominations, hailing the ‘transformative impact’ of the status. image: Steve Neal / Flow country – Commons Wikimedia
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AHF and HES to support community access to early-stage heritage regeneration funding
A renewed partnership between the Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF) and Historic Environment Scotland (HES) will support community access to early-stage heritage regeneration funding. image: AHF
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THA published its new Heritage Alliance 2021-26 Strategy
The Heritage Alliance (THA) has published its new Heritage Alliance 2021-26 Strategy, focusing efforts as an organisation on four interrelated strategic objectives: Advocacy, Communication & Connecting, Insight and Sustainability & Resilience. image: THA
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IPCC report ‘Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change’ published
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC) has published its latest report ‘Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change’, which indicates that… ‘we can halve emissions by 2030’. image: for illustration purposes only – Open Government Licence V3.0
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SAVE report on ‘Departing Stores’: Stores face existential crisis from ‘pandemic and rapidly changing shopping patterns’
This new report ‘Departing Stores: Emporia at Risk’ from SAVE Britain’s Heritage documents some of the country’s finest examples, the threats they face, and what can be done to rescue and reinvent them for the 21st century.
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NHIG invites blacksmiths with 5 years experience to join pilot run of accreditation scheme
The National heritage Ironwork Group (NHIG) has invited blacksmiths with at least five years of practical experience to consider joining a pilot run of its proposed accreditation scheme in May 2022. image: NHIG
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IHBC’s Construction signpost: Construction industry professionals react to Spring Budget 2022
Rishi Sunak Chancellor of the Exchequer has delivered the Spring Budget 2022, announcing a new tax plan to ease the rising cost of living, and construction industry professionals share their thoughts via Construction Buzz. image: for illustration purposes only – … Continue reading
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