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- IHBC welcomes RICS’ #IHBCShrewsbury2025 School ‘Friend’ benefit: RICS’ rates for members at Global Building Conservation Conference, ‘Sharing heritage skills…’, 25/09, online, 7hrs CPD 18/07/2025
- IHBC SE Branch Summer Social – Friday 25 July, Pevensey Castle: Places available – ‘Book, bring a picnic… & pop in & out as suits!’ 18/07/2025
- Need a MATE? Next chance 5 August: IHBC’s free monthly online accreditation guidance… all welcome, including accredited members seeking CPD updates and roles in IHBC training and assessments 18/07/2025
- IHBC Research for Practice Digest No.6 now out: ‘Connecting conservation research and professional practice’ 18/07/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Practice’ Signpost: Protected sites and development from the LGA and PAS 18/07/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Major Fire at Edwardian Busbridge Hall, Godalming, after BBQ sparks blaze 18/07/2025
- Welsh Planning Reforms to ‘…. speed up infrastructure decisions and create jobs..’, to make ‘… Wales the fastest country in the UK for determining planning applications’ 18/07/2025
- HES: National campaign, ‘Historic Places, Breathing Spaces’, calls on all to ‘connect with heritage to boost.. wellbeing…’ 18/07/2025
- England’s Dormant Assets Scheme: Forgotten assets to help families and young people thrive 18/07/2025
- MPs say ‘Warm homes retrofit failures pushing UK clean, secure energy targets further off track’ 18/07/2025
- Scotland’s urgent Church Challenge helped by National Lottery Heritage Fund Grant to Scotland’s Churches Trust & Soc Ant Scot 18/07/2025
- CMS Select Committee update on protecting built heritage, hear calls for end to ‘boom and bust’ heritage funding 18/07/2025
- Looking back at IHBC’s Context 183 (Part 2): IHBC’s members’ journal with Alexandra Fairclough’s ‘Law and Policy update’, UK-wide, plus Planning Appeals (with a shark) 15/07/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Research’ Signpost update to RICHeS Survey: For Heritage Science community and networks, input sought to 1 August 15/07/2025
- LAST CHANCE TO APPLY: IHBC seeks ‘Branch Consultants’ with strong interpersonal, IT & comms skills for flexible part-time (typically 4 hours/week) regional support: Help boost locally-led conservation and volunteers, @£25/hour + expenses, closes 18 July 15/07/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Professional’ Signpost: DB on ‘Architects, architecture, buildings, construction and inspiration in film’ 15/07/2025
- IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’: Arch Daily’s ‘Tribute to Léon Krier’ 15/07/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Future of Southend’s Kursaal discussed at Parliament meeting 15/07/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Built heritage trusts in Glasgow receive new funding from council 15/07/2025
- CoE: Major refurbishment of Lambeth Palace completed 15/07/2025
- Kicking restoration of Parliament down the road risks disaster, authorities told 15/07/2025
- University of Cambridge on ‘The Business Case for Integrated Retrofit: How banks, insurers, and the government can support healthy, efficient, and resilient homes’ 15/07/2025
- CIOB responds to committee report criticising UK retrofit schemes 15/07/2025
- Investing in community regeneration in Scotland – Projects to unlock economic growth and tackle poverty 15/07/2025
- RIBA Library and Collections services update June 2025 15/07/2025
Daily Archives: 07/02/2025
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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English Heritage Strategic Review of Structure: Staffing to drop 7%, in single centre
English Heritage is undertaking a strategic review of its structure, to ensure the charity can remain financially resilient in the current environment.
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Church of England’s Conservation Grants Programme update: Expanded £5M conservation grants programme open
image for illustration: Peter Badcock Emily Gee, Director for Cathedral and Church Buildings, reports that the Department’s expanded £5million conservation grants programme is now open for applications.
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Parliamentary Inquiry launch: Soft power – a strategy for UK success?
image for illustration: Parliamentary copyright images are reproduced with the permission of Parliament The Foreign Affairs Committee has announced a new inquiry into the extent and effectiveness of the UK’s soft power.
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Deputy PM letter to LA leaders etc.: Building the homes we need etc.
image for illustration: Open Government Licence v3.0 The Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner has written to local authority leaders, Metro Mayors and chief executives about the government’s plan to build the homes the country needs.
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Highland Heritage Woodworks grows from acorn to oak with Scottish Enterprise support
Highland Heritage Woodworks (HHW) provides sustainable timber to the construction industry alongside bespoke master carpentry and is set for further growth following a recent grant from Scottish Enterprise to create a sawmill in the heart of the Dunecht Estate, Aberdeenshire.
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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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