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- IHBC updates on ‘5 Commitments to Help Heritage Skills in Conservation’: Check out our web hub, with video & feedback, and help reduce damage to both health and heritage 05/12/2025
- IHBC Supporter Surgery for aspiring Affiliates: Have you registered yet? 11 December, 1pm (IHBC CPD too!) 05/12/2025
- IHBC welcomes new joint CEOs at Historic England to post 05/12/2025
- IHBC’s new Context, No185, ‘lifts the lid on roofing’, from craft to carbon, with essential, accessible CPD for Conservation Professionals & colleagues 05/12/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Practice’ signpost: HE’s Technical Advice on ‘Historic and Traditional Buildings at Risk of Flooding’ – mitigation & adaptation for flood types & construction to energy efficiency & more 05/12/2025
- IHBC Director’s pick from HESPR’s £7M+ of weekly works: Town Council seeks team for urban development enhancement project, to 12/12 & £1M 05/12/2025
- Planning Aid bodies across the UK unite in landmark agreement to share expertise and strengthen public engagement 05/12/2025
- The Heritage Alliance on ‘What the Autumn Budget Means for the Heritage Sector’ 05/12/2025
- Heritage Network: Impact Report 2025 issued 05/12/2025
- CIC Responds to the Chancellor’s Autumn Budget 05/12/2025
- RSPB: New ‘More in Common’ report shows people don’t want new homes to be built at nature’s expense 05/12/2025
- New director of careers and education joins RTPI 05/12/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the global doorstep’: European Heritage Hub’s ‘Call for good practices’ – ‘Cultural heritage as an asset for the green, digital and social transformation’, to 19/12 05/12/2025
- IHBC welcomes Budget’s financial boost for planning, supporting RTPI’s call for long-term investment as ‘the key to building capacity’ 02/12/2025
- IHBC Supporter Surgery for aspiring Affiliates: Have you registered yet? 11 December, 1pm (IHBC CPD too!) 02/12/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Research’ Signpost: Volcanic rocks could store captured CO2, Edinburgh University study finds 02/12/2025
- IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’: BDP on ‘Redeveloping Plymouth Civic Centre’ 02/12/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: ‘Failings at every level’ resulted in botched insulation scheme, MPs told 02/12/2025
- Government confirms National Covid Memorial Wall will be preserved 02/12/2025
- ICON: Pilgrim Trust supports ‘Conservation Skills at Risk’ with £45,000 grant 02/12/2025
- Government reappoints 3 Trustees to the National Heritage Memorial Fund 02/12/2025
- Parliamentary Committee: Nature not a ‘blocker’ to housing; needed for ‘resilient towns & neighbourhoods’, and calls for housebuilding target changes and reduced VAT (for retrofitting) 02/12/2025
- £2Mn Funding boost to protect war memorials across the UK 02/12/2025
- England to benefit from two new national forests backed by £1 billion investment in tree planting 02/12/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: A town wants to give away its 100-year-old convent: is it a housing solution? 02/12/2025
Daily Archives: 23/05/2025
IHBC’s 2025 Shrewsbury School announces ‘Exhibitor Hub’ for #IHBCShrewsbury2025 as booking options narrow fast: New delegate-led engagement & learning with Exhibitors & Sponsors
The IHBC is delighted to announce that our 2025 Shrewsbury Day School has added a new learning thread, as now specialist exhibitors will add even more CPD learning, engagement and networking opportunities for in-person delegates, with a call for Virtual … Continue reading
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Tagged building, climate change, conference, conservation, cpd, environment, exhibition, expertise, heritage, learning, networking, planning, skills
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IHBC 2025 MarshAwards announced: Carole Ryan for ‘Retired- Community Contribution’ and William Johnson for ‘Successful Learning’ – Awards presented at #IHBCShrewsbury2025, 13/06
Judges in the tenth year of the IHBC Marsh Charitable Trust Awards are delighted to announce the 2025 Awards, as Carole Ryan secures the ‘Community Contribution by a Retired Member of the IHBC’ award, while the ‘Successful Learning in Heritage … Continue reading
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IHBC Heritage Staff Wellbeing at Work Survey now closed
The IHBC is delighted to thank all contributors for the strong response to our Heritage Staff Wellbeing at Work survey, helping us understand the current state of wellbeing among those working and volunteering in the heritage sector, while announcing that … Continue reading
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Tagged conservation, heritage, professionals, questionnaire, volunteering, wellbeing, working
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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
The IHBC is delighted to announce that Duncan Wilson CBE, Chief Executive at Historic England, will offer an online welcome and take questions at the IHBC’s Shrewsbury Day School on 13 June – #IHBCShrewsbury2025 – opening a unique day of … Continue reading
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IHBC’s ‘Research’ Signpost: ‘Spillover impacts’ in publicly funded arts and culture sector measured
image for illustration The Centre for Economic and Business Research (Cebr) has found that public funding in the arts and culture sector generates indirect economic impact – or ‘spillovers’ – that support the continued growth of the creative industries and … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Landmark church faces VAT blow under new church heritage funding rules, threatening community renovation, says CoE
image for illustration: St Mary’s Church, Banbury by AJD, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons St Mary’s Banbury is the biggest arts venue in a town with more than 50,000 residents, but now struggles to fund a £1M renovation with … Continue reading
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The Countryside Alliance investigation: Over 9000 crimes reported at churches across UK in just three years
image for illustration: Joanna Theobald The Countryside Alliance’s latest investigation has revealed that from 2022 to 2024 over 9,000 crimes have been committed on church property as well as other religious premises.
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Tagged building, church, conservation, crime, economics, heritage, rural, vandalism
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Government-commissioned evidence review on UK City of Culture programme
image for illustration: Open Government Licence v3.0 DCMS commissioned the University of Warwick (Warwick Business School) to undertake an evidence review of the impact of the UK Cities of Culture programme, with the report now issued.
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Planning and Infrastructure Bill Impact assessment published
The Impact Assessment for the Planning and Infrastructure Bill has been issued by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG).
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Tagged building, climate change, communities, environment, expertise, government, housing, legislation, planning, skills
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DCMS Arts Council England review: Closing extended to 30/06
An independent review of the Arts Council England (ACE) for the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) – covering strategic objectives, working relationships and partnerships, and the relationship between ACE and government – has had its call for evidence … Continue reading
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THA issues evidence to DESNZ on energy performance of private rented homes in England and Wales
The Heritage Alliance (THA) has submitted evidence to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero (DESNZ) on its consultation on improving the energy performance of privately rented homes.
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Tagged building, climate change, conservation, energy, environment, heritage, net zero, retrofit, sustainability
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Designboom interviews Venice Architecture Biennale Curator Carlo Ratti
The 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale has opened its doors to November 23rd, transforming the city into a global stage for architectural innovation, critical discourse, and creative exchange with the title ‘Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective.’, reports Designboom in conversation with Carlo … Continue reading
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