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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: 03/06/2025
IHBC welcomes RICS Friend of the School Jessica Jones – RICS Building Conservation Advisory Group VC – to #IHBCShrewsbury2025: NB Virtual School booking (13/06, from £35+VAT) closes12/06,5.00pm
The IHBC is delighted to welcome as our 2025 Annual Friend of the School representing RICS Jessica Jones MA MSt FRICS IHBC, Vice-Chair (VC) of the RICS Building Conservation Advisory Group.
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SAHGB-IHBC Heritage Research Award 2025 launched: Celebrates ‘research… in heritage and conservation practice’, to 18 August
The IHBC and the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain (SAHGB) are delighted to announce the launch of the 2025 joint Heritage Research Award to celebrate ‘the quality of architectural-historical research.. in heritage and conservation practice’, for research carried … Continue reading
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IHBC welcomes Berrys as Saturday Tour Sponsor for the 2025 Shrewsbury Annual School: #IHBCShrewsbury2025
The Institute of Historic Building Conservation (IHBC) is delighted to announce Berrys, as the Saturday Tour Sponsor for the Institute’s 2025 Annual School from 12-14 June 2025, in person in Shrewsbury and online.
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IHBC’s SPECIAL OFFER and updates to Conservation Course networks & students: Free access to (and recordings of) our online 2025 Shrewsbury ‘Virtual School’ (13 June) and more…
IHBC’s Director Seán O’Reilly has written to members of the Conservation Course Directors Forum (CCDF) to let them know that for 2025 we have introduced a free option for network leads and their students to attend our Virtual School on … Continue reading
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IHBC CPD Circular – Special Edition – Your CPD Guide to #IHBCShrewsbury2025
IHBC’s 2025 Shrewsbury School CPD Circular offers our annual dedicated guidance on Continuing Professional Development (CPD) opportunities and resources for interdisciplinary conservation professionals at #IHBCShrewsbury2025, online or in-person.
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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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Tagged building, climate change, conservation, cpd, environment, event, exhibitions, expertise, government, heritage, learning, networking, planning, skills, sponsorship
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IHBC’s ‘Research’ Signpost: Scottish Parliament launches Areas of Research Interest (ARIs) pilot to support climate scrutiny
image for illustration The Scottish Parliament has launched its first Areas of Research Interest (ARIs) as part of an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) –funded programme enhancing engagement with the research community to support scrutiny of climate change.
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IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’: AJ features IHBC HESPR member Purcell on RIBA HQ
IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance scheme for heritage services – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and this week the Architects’ Journal (AJ) on IHBC’s HESPR member Purcell being brought … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (rewilding) doorstep’: ‘UK’s largest’ rewilding landscape registers as independent charity
image for illustration: Fiona Newton A rewilding landscape in Scotland, which claims to be the largest of its kind in the UK, has registered as an independent charity.
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Two guilty over Sycamore Gap tree felling
Two men have been found guilty over the felling of the Sycamore Gap tree.
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Connections Through Culture Grants 2025, to 23 June
image for illustration: Open Government Licence v3.0 A British Council grant programme designed to nurture fresh cultural partnerships between the UK and selected countries is open to 23 June.
HE Foundation launches ‘its first-ever Patrons’ Scheme’
Dr Fabian Richter, Chair of the Historic England (HE) Foundation has announced the launch of its new ‘Patrons’ Scheme’.
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Tagged archaeology, building, conservation, environment, expertise, heritage, history, patronage, skills
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: UK Antarctic Heritage Trust launches ‘Virtual Visit’ website area, including 3d Model
image for illustration: Port Lockroy by Butterfly voyages – Serge Ouachée, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons The UK Antarctic Heritage Trust calls on people to ‘Immerse yourself in our heritage – Making Antarctica Accessible’ reflecting its commitment to making … Continue reading
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