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- Bob Kindred updates on IHBC’s ‘LB Prosecutions Database’: Cases always sought – ‘…it relies on volunteered information’ 15/04/2025
- IHBC on Context 182 (Part 3): IHBC’s Chair on ‘Trusteeship’ and what is NOT ‘hot air’ features in officer and network updates 15/04/2025
- April is ‘Stress Awareness Month’: So help IHBC help you with our ‘Heritage Staff Wellbeing at Work Survey’ – Have your say, before 1 May 15/04/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Members with benefits’: West Dean’s 10% discount on specialist Conservation courses for IHBC members (all categories) 15/04/2025
- Booking opens for #IHBCShrewsbury2025, 12-14/06: Certified CPD on ‘Heritage in Context – Value: Plan: Change’ – From £35+VAT (Online), free pre-conference webinars and more, for all your conservation needs…’ 15/04/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Legislation and Policy’ Signpost: UK Parliament… on ‘Net zero and the UK’s historic building stock’ 15/04/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from (England’s Market Town) doorsteps’: The cultural heritage of market towns, Westminster Hall debate, 04/03, debate and background 15/04/2025
- SAVE unveils 50th anniversary programme – 50 years of campaigning 1975-2025 15/04/2025
- UK Government: High streets with vacant shops revitalised via High Street Rental Auctions 15/04/2025
- UK Government: Annual report for England’s Participation Survey – parks/gardens; cities/towns, & landscapes/habitat most popular 15/04/2025
- Wilts & Berks Canal Trust calls for volunteer engineers and planners to help on UK’s largest canal restoration project 15/04/2025
- HE’s Chief Executive Duncan Wilson offers online welcome & Q&A at IHBC’s 2025 Day School, 13/06: #IHBCShrewsbury2025 – Schools… ‘one of the pre-eminent regular events in… heritage’ 11/04/2025
- IHBC’s April ‘CPD Circular’: Accessible, cost-conscious learning, events, awards, calls and more, with Schools, School webinars, Sustainability, Branches & much more 11/04/2025
- April is ‘Stress Awareness Month’: So help IHBC help you with our ‘Heritage Staff Wellbeing at Work Survey’-Have your say, before 1 May 11/04/2025
- Booking opens for #IHBCShrewsbury2025, 12-14/06: Certified CPD on ‘Heritage in Context – Value: Plan: Change’ – From £35+VAT (Online), free pre-conference webinars and more, for all your conservation needs…’ 11/04/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Research’ Signpost: HE/EH on Climate Adaption, fourth round ‘Heritage’ Report 11/04/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (IHBC, AT, RSUA) doorstep’, via DB: ‘Attending a conservation training course… a personal account’ 11/04/2025
- Heritage Counts on ‘New Homes from Vacant Historic Buildings’: Up to 670K new homes ‘by repairing and repurposing existing historic buildings’ 11/04/2025
- New Towns inquiry launched by Lords Built Environment Committee: to 12/05 11/04/2025
- UK Net Zero Carbon Building Standard -The Pilot Version of the Standard has Launched! 11/04/2025
- Heritage Open Days: How to get involved as registration is now open 11/04/2025
- IHBC’s Blog from Policy@Manchester (University of Manchester): Addressing the UK’s heritage skills crisis – why we must act now 11/04/2025
- April is ‘Stress Awareness Month’: So help IHBC help you with our ‘Heritage Staff Wellbeing at Work Survey’ – Have your say, before 1 May 08/04/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Members with benefits’: West Dean’s 10% discount on specialist Conservation courses for IHBC members (all categories) 08/04/2025
- IHBC’s Annual School 2025 pre-conference (and free!) webinars: Accessible & engaging learning for all (and special CPD for Conservation Professionals) with ‘Lessons from Jugaadopolis… innovative community engagement’ 10/07, 1pm 08/04/2025
Daily Archives: 04/04/2025
Career conscious & in conservation? IHBC’s ‘Jobs etc.’ reaches across disciplines, levels & sectors, while posts from charities get c.25% off
To connect employers’ needs and practitioners’ skills, the IHBC updates NewsBlog readers on the wide-ranging opportunities on our ‘IHBC Jobs etc.’ service, so sign up for free alerts, and telling your boss about our targeted subsidies for adverts, outlined below, … Continue reading
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IHBC’s Annual School pre-conference (and free!) webinars: Accessible & engaging learning for all (and special CPD for Conservation Professionals) with STBA & IHBC – Natural Materials in Retrofit on 7 April
Following on from the launch of the 2025 Annual School and the linked pre-conference CPD in Redruth on 13 March, the IHBC is delighted to announce a series of online lunchtime webinars across a variety of topics that relate to … Continue reading
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Booking opens for #IHBCShrewsbury2025, 12-14/06: Certified CPD on ‘Heritage in Context – Value: Plan: Change’ – From £35+VAT (Online), free pre-conference webinars and more, for all your conservation needs…’
Booking is now open for the IHBC’s 2025 Annual School – #IHBCShrewsbury2025 – in wonderful Shrewsbury, on 12-14 June, centred on our hybrid (in-person & Virtual) Day School (13 June), with certified IHBC CPD, exhibitors, pre-conference webinars, networking & more
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IHBC sponsors ‘Heritage in Transition: Skills and Approaches for Sustainability’: Joint ICOMOS-UK/University of Liverpool conference, 11 April – ‘Be part of this important conversation’, in-person or online
‘Heritage in Transition: Skills and Approaches for Sustainability’ is a joint ICOMOS-UK and University of Liverpool hybrid event supported by the IHBC and with three main themes: Forging partnerships…; Navigating… heritage sustainability, and Education and skills…, all on 11 April.
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IHBC’s 2024 Gus Astley Student Award winners and prizes announced: Ailsa Bailey wins top Award, with Highly Commended and Booth-Bird CMP prizes too
The winners of the IHBC Gus Astley Student Awards for 2024 have been selected by guest judge Nathan Baker, former CEO of the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists (CIfA), with winners offered free places at the Annual School in Shrewsbury – … Continue reading
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IHBC’s ‘Legislation and Policy’ Signpost: Government publishes advice on Green Belt
image for illustration: Open Government Licence v3.0 The Government has published new advice on the role of the Green Belt in the planning system, including advice on assessing Green Belt to identify grey belt land.
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IHBC’s ‘Director’s pick’ from HESPR’s £4.3M+ of weekly works: City Council creating a Framework Agreement, to 15/04.
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 a City Council creating a … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Future uncertain for historic Scarborough tennis pavilion needing urgent restoration
Claims that a rare tennis pavilion in Scarborough is close to collapse are grossly exaggerated, the man in charge says, reports The Yorkshire Post.
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HES: Skills Investment Plan for the Historic Environment in Scotland
image for illustration: HES The Skills Investment Plan (SIP) for Scotland recognises the need to support our workforce and to nurture their skills, knowledge, expertise, and personal qualities.
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New Heritage Minister for England: Baroness Twycross, DCMS Lords Minister
image: Baroness Twycross, Open Government Licence v3.0 Baroness Twycross, Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Lords Minister, has taken over the role of Heritage minister from Chris Bryant with immediate effect, and is now Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Europa Nostra and EIB Institute on Europe’s 7 Most Endangered Heritage Sites for 2025, including Victoria Tower Gardens, London
image for illustration: Victoria Tower Gardens, London by Txllxt TxllxT, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons The list of the 7 Most Endangered monuments and heritage sites in Europe for 2025 was released today by Europa Nostra, the leading European … Continue reading
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