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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: 25/06/2024
IHBC celebrates presentation of Marsh IHBC Award for ‘Successful Learning in Heritage Skills’ to Damian Williams at 2024 Reading School Annual Dinner
[slideshow_deploy id=’40257′] The IHBC has welcomed the presentation of the 2024 Marsh IHBC Award for ‘Successful Learning in Heritage Skills’ to Damian Williams at our 2024 Reading School Annual Dinner.
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IHBC celebrates learning, insights, networking & more at 2024’s ‘addictive’ Reading School on ‘Place & Building Care…’: Interim update, thanks & signposts to ‘IHBC CPD, despite purdah’
As IHBC’s 2024 Reading School has (mostly) ended, the IHBC offers more thanks to speakers, volunteers, supporters, participants and Sponsors –Principal Sponsor MFL Insurance Group and Reception Sponsor Velux – with an interim update on #IHBCReading2024 past and future.
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IHBC Toolbox’s latest Guidance Note now out: ‘Emergency Works, Application of S9(3) Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990’
The IHBC’s latest Toolbox Guidance Note, drafted in consultation with the Institute’s Legal Panel, provides advice on the application of S9 (3) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990, and has been prepared in response to questions … Continue reading
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SAHGB-IHBC Heritage Research Award 2024 opens: Celebrating ‘research… in heritage and conservation practice’, enter work from 2022 by 1/09 2024
The IHBC is delighted to announce the opening of the 2024 joint Heritage Research Award with the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain (SAHGB) to celebrate ‘the quality of architectural-historical research.. in heritage and conservation practice’, with submissions welcomed … Continue reading
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IHBC’s ‘Professional’ spotlight on HES on LinkedIn: Elizabeth McCrone IHBC on ‘Would a VAT Rebate Help Repair Scotland’s Historic Buildings?’
Historic Environment Scotland (HES) Director of Heritage Elizabeth McCrone has posted on LinkedIn to explain why HES commissioned research on VAT and what the findings were. image for illustration
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (Council) doorstep: Council set to close ‘obsolete’ Kendal County Hall
Westmorland and Furness Council is moving services from Kendal’s County Hall after report indicated it needed £7.4m in repairs, reports BBC News. image for illustration: County Hall, Kendal by Richard Kelly, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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2024 Winners of Europe’s top heritage awards from the European Commission & Europa Nostra: Summary of awards, including UK
The European Commission and Europa Nostra today announced the 2024 winners of the European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards, co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union and including the Europa Nostra Awards 2024 for outstanding projects … Continue reading
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SAVE calls for national debate on demolition of Scottish heritage
SAVE Britain’s Heritage has launched a public petition calling on the Scottish Parliament to host a national debate to bolster safeguards for threatened listed buildings. image for illustration: Ayr Station Hotel By Goodreg3 – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Michael Sheppard Appointed New Executive Director of Cathedral Workshop Fellowship
The Cathedral Workshop Fellowship (CWF) is pleased to announce the appointment of Michael Sheppard as its new Executive Director. image for illustration – Gloucester Cathedral by Joanna Theobald
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CITB introduces new ‘Into Work’ grant: What’s? new in the Grants Scheme
The Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) introduces its new ‘Into Work Grant’ to help employers recruit and retain talent within the construction industry. image for illustration: Open Government Licence v3.0
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New CABE President Inaugurated
CABE is happy to announce that Richard Flynn PCABE CEng CEnv C.Build E FCABE is the Association’s new President.
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IHBC’s ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Site of 3.6Mn-year-old human footprint one of 22 new Cultural Protection Fund projects
Site of 3.6-million-year-old human footprint at risk from climate change is one of 22 new projects to be supported by the British Council’s Cultural Protection Fund. image for illustration
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