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The Heritage Alliance (THA) is delivering the Historic England Heritage Carbon Literacy Training Course, designed for heritage organisations and covering climate change and carbon emissions.

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Research from Future for Religious Heritage shows 81% of Europeans believe that religious heritage is key for the present and future of their community.

image for illustration: by Peter Badcock

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The IHBC is delighted to announce three more free and open to all #IHBCReading2024 pre-conference CPD webinars in our exploration of ‘Place & Building Care…’ in Reading in June, with ‘Enforcement up next as Andrew Lavender explores ‘effective enforcement’ on 3 May, 1.00-2.30pm.

‘Caring for buildings through effective enforcement’:

 3 May, 1.00-2.30pm

Andrew Lavender, co-Director Lavender & Wilson

REGISTER HERE to attend

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IHBC Full Members who are strong presenters and communicators, committed to maintaining our standards in line with the Institute’s interdisciplinary practice model, as well as supporting members’ career journeys, are called on to submit interest in a new occasional, flexible, interactive and fee-based opportunity as an IHBC ‘Recognised MATE Provider’!

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The IHBC’s initial CPD guidance tied to the exploration of ‘Place & Building Care…’ at our #IHBCReading2024 School (June 12/13-15; Day School June 14) highlights the focus on priority, ‘hard to access’ CPD across our practice areas – the Competences – with options from the low-cost, easy-access ‘Virtual’ School (including recordings), from £30+VAT, to our Full Residential School, with tours, Thursday reception and Friday Annual Dinner.

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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 features the #IHBCReading2024 School offer to HESPR members of reduced rates for all staff joining the Virtual School on 14 June: only £30+VAT.

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John Nash’s last surviving church gets a new Welsh Slate roof giving the church a new lease of life in its bicentenary, reports Welsh Slate.

image for illustration: By Robert Cutts from Bristol, England, UK – The Church of All Souls, Langham Place, CC BY 2.0

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New footage shows the tank in the iconic gasholder frame has been infilled in preparation for the site to become a public park in the future, reports the City of Edinburgh Council.

image for illustration: Granton gasholder by Kim Traynor – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0

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The Sagrada Familia in Barcelona will finally be finished in 2026, more than 140 years after construction started, reports CNN.

image for illustration: Sagrada Familia Barcelona By Canaan – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0

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The new issue of the IHBC’s members’ journal, Context, No. 179, offers diverse takes on Hadrian’s Wall – inspired by ‘The man who saved Hadrian’s Wall’ – with a special collation of personal and professional takes on #IHBCReading2024’s theme of ‘Place and Building Care’.

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The IHBC is delighted to announce two more free #IHBCReading2024 pre-School CPD webinars and tasters in our exploration of ‘Place & Building Care…’, targeting IHBC’s ‘Management’ Area of Competence across planning (Enforcement) and historic estates (Munstead Wood), 12/13-15 June:

image Munstead Wood: © National Trust images

• 3 May, 1-2.30PM: ‘Caring for buildings through effective enforcement’ with Andrew Lavender, co-Director Lavender & Wilson
• 16 May, 1-2.30PM: ‘The beginnings of a creative partnership: Gertrude Jekyll and Edwin Lutyens at Munstead Wood’, with Dr Caroline Ikin, National Trust Curator at Munstead Wood

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IHBC Full Members who are strong presenters and communicators, committed to maintaining our standards in line with the Institute’s interdisciplinary practice model, as well as supporting members’ career journeys, are called on to submit interest in a new occasional, flexible, interactive and fee-based opportunity as an IHBC ‘Recognised MATE Provider’!

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IHBC’s Chair David McDonald has reminded voting members to complete proxy voting forms – SHORT or LONG as suits – as back-up arrangements for voting at our 2024 AGM on 30 April, while reminding all to register in advance for the AGM’s CPD session with Robyn Pender on ‘… Why exactly are we using so much energy in buildings in the first place?’.

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A new closing date of 30 April has been announced for the two IHBC 2024 Marsh Awards – for ‘civic contributions by retired members’, and for ‘successful learning in heritage skills’ – with awards of £500 and free places at IHBC’s 2024 Annual School in Reading, for presentations on June 14.

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The IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance service – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and the Director’s occasional news listing from the service looks back on news and links from 13 February, when opportunities worth £1.3Mn were posted.

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