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- IHBC takes key step forward in Parliamentary ‘5 Commitments’ delivery, joining National Federation of Builders’ National Heritage Skills Forum 10/11/2026
- IHBC Marsh Awards OPEN: Nominate your ‘Successful learner’ (in Heritage Skills) or ‘Retired member’ (Community Contributions), to close 15 December 2026 10/11/2026
- Save the Date for #IHBCBristolBath2027 – Accessible, Certified CPD on ‘Climate Change & Significance’, June 10-12 2027: IHBC’s Annual School, with online options, free pre-conference webinars & more… 10/11/2026
- Bursaries now open for IHBC Annual School 2027: Accessible, certified CPD on Climate Change & Significance 10/11/2026
- IHBC’s ‘Research’ CPD signpost: Deregulated housing conversions linked to poor health and wellbeing, from UCL 10/11/2026
- IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’: The Guardian on Clifton Suspension Bridge… ‘A big responsibility’ 10/11/2026
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Back on track as Leas Lift carriages return home 10/11/2026
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: New Visitor Levy fund to help futureproof Edinburgh’s cultural and heritage buildings 10/11/2026
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: National Railway Museum celebrates start of construction on… the Porterbrook gallery 10/11/2026
- Nominate a building for the 20th edition of the Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list, before 4 January 10/11/2026
- National Trust: ‘Landmark act of generosity secures home of London’s oldest restaurant for the future’ 10/11/2026
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: ‘Preserving Legacies Climate Heritage Cohort Program’, open to 8 January, ‘…work with a place that is culturally significant to your community’ 10/11/2026
- IHBC offers advice and support in roll out of ‘Historic Environment Policy for Northern Ireland’ 06/11/2026
- IHBC’s November CPD Circular: Your user-friendly ‘What’s on’ guide to heritage learning, networking and experiences, from Branches to ‘CPD Providers’ & beyond… 06/11/2026
- IHBC Marsh Awards OPEN: Nominate your ‘Successful learner’ (in Heritage Skills) or ‘Retired member’ (Community Contributions), to close 15 December 2026 06/11/2026
- Bursaries now open for IHBC Annual School 2027: Accessible, certified CPD on Climate Change & Significance 06/11/2026
- IHBC’s ‘Research’ CPD signpost: RICHeS Access Fund 2nd call opens, to £20K & 15/12, to access ‘cutting-edge equipment, collections & expertise’, for charities, social enterprises, commercial companies etc. 06/11/2026
- IHBC Director’s top pick from HESPR’s £68M+ works: BID seeks multidisciplinary team to study local retail areas, to 20/11 and £40K 06/11/2026
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (builders) doorstep’: Budget measures welcomed, but much more work left to do – industry warns 06/11/2026
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Castle Eden bridge demolition plans withdrawn by Stockton Borough Council 06/11/2026
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Westminster honours engineer who helped inspire the world of James Bond 06/11/2026
- Blackpool, Milton Keynes, Sheffield and Wrexham shortlisted for UK City of Culture 2029 06/11/2026
- Local History Hub launches new School & Heritage Consultancy pilot 06/11/2026
- AHF awards new grants through the Heritage Revival Fund 06/11/2026
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: First Joint Transnational Call of the ‘Resilient Cultural Heritage Partnership’ to 11 January 2027 06/11/2026
SAHGB-IHBC Heritage Research Award 2023 celebrates ‘research… in heritage and conservation practice’: Enter online before 1/09/23
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IHBC’s ‘Practice’ signpost: Colouring London invites IHBC to ‘help colouring in our maps’
Colouring London, an online mapping platform that collects data on the characteristics and history of London’s buildings, says to HBC members: ‘We would love your help colouring in our maps.
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IHBC’s HESPR ‘Special Interest News’: Dezeen features Brutalist Berlin building saved from demolition
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 Dezeen on the Brutalist Mäusebunker building saved from demolition in Berlin.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Former HMRC offices gain Grade II after University of Nottingham purchase
Nottingham’s Castle Meadow office buildings, which were occupied by around 2,000 HM Revenue & Customs workers until 2021, have been Grade II-listed by the Department of Culture Media and Sport, reports Nottinghamshire Live.
image for illustration: Castle Meadow Business Park by Stephen McKay, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Glasgow councillors knock back award-winning plans for new homes
Council planners have upheld a previous decision to refuse permission to build four mews properties in North Kelvinside over the impact it would have on neighbours, reports Glasgow Live.
image for illustration: M J Richardson / Queen Margaret Drive from near Queen Bridge
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Europe’s 7 Most Endangered Heritage Sites 2023 announced
The list of the 7 Most Endangered monuments and heritage sites in Europe for 2023 has been announced by Europa Nostra, the European Voice of Civil Society Committed to Cultural and Natural Heritage, and the European Investment Bank (EIB) Institute.
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Reuse Me, Don’t Lose Me: SAVE’s 2023 Buildings at Risk New Entries List
SAVE Britain’s Heritage has added nearly 70 new entries to the Buildings at Risk register, bringing the total number of empty historic buildings at risk of demolition or dereliction on the register to over 1,400.
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Circular Built Environment says: ‘… we cannot continue exceeding the limits…’
A new report ‘Our Shared Understanding- a circular economy in the built environment’ indicates that we cannot continue exceeding the limits of our finite planet.
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Dr Wei Yang becomes CIC’s first female Chair
The Construction Industry Council (CIC) has inaugurated Dr Wei Yang as Chair at its Council Meeting.
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AHRC: £1m invested in research on UK museum closures
Capital from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) will allow the Mapping Museum research team to map UK-wide closures and collection dispersal until 2025.
image: By Dun.can from Melton Mowbray, UK – Pollock’s Toy Museum, CC BY 2.0,
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IHBC’s Context archive update: All issues now open to search online – ‘a new resource for conservation practice, history and insights’
The IHBC’s online archive of our in-house journal Context has seen its biggest upgrade in recent years, with the rescanning of Issues 1-73 – from February 1983 to March 2002 – to make them fully searchable online as ‘FlippingBooks’.
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IHBC’s Gus Astley Student Award for heritage submissions on UK taught courses: Closes 31/08 – Win £500 + free #IHBCReading2024
The IHBC’s celebrated annual Gus Astley Student Award closes on 31 August 2023, so if you have relevant coursework from ANY UK taught course – under-graduate or post-graduate, completed by 31 August 2022 OR 31 August 2023 –submit it online and on time to have a chance to receive a cash prize at the IHBC’s Annual School in Reading in June 2024.
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SAHGB-IHBC Heritage Research Award 2023 celebrates ‘research… in heritage and conservation practice’: Enter online before 1/09/23
The IHBC is delighted to announce the opening of the 2023 joint Award with the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain (SAHGB) celebrating ‘the quality of architectural-historical research.. in heritage and conservation practice’, now open for submissions and closing end August 2023.
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IHBC’s ‘Evaluation’ signpost: North East Wales National Park Designation – Project Information
In its Programme for Government (2021-2026) the Welsh Government has set out its intention to designate a new National Park in North East Wales, based on the existing Clwydian Range and Dee Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB), with its ‘Designation Project Information Page’ outlining the programme.
image: Natural Resources Wales website
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IHBC’s HESPR pick from £5.6+M costed works: National body seeks architect for Brutalist upgrade, £2M, closing 11/08
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 for this week features is the call from a national institution for an architect to upgrade its landmark Brutalist building etc., closing 11/08 and valued £2M.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (Whitehouse) doorstep’: The Hill reports on the US rejoicing UNESCO
US First Lady Jill Biden travelled to France to speak at an event to mark the United States rejoining a United Nations-led education group, the White House said, as reported by The Hill.
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Gove: M&S Marble Arch store cannot be torn down
Marks & Spencer will not be able to bulldoze and redevelop its flagship central London store, after the secretary of state blocked the plans, reports the BBC.
image for illustration: Gary Rogers / Marks and Spencer. Commons Wikimedia
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UK Tentative List Review on potential UNESCO World Heritage Sites announced: 7 added
The UK Government has announced the outcome of its ‘Tentative List Review’ which has resulted in the addition of 7 new sites to the UK’s Tentative List of World Heritage Sites.
image for illustration: ‘Birkenhead the People’s Park’ – Open Government Licence v3.0
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Heritage charities invited to apply for Movement for Good 2023 large grants
Benefact Group’s Movement for Good Awards is giving away a further £500,000 to support charity projects that have a lasting impact on communities.
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National Churches Trust: £3.6M to help keep churches open and in use
A £3.6 million investment in the National Churches Trust (NCT) grants scheme by the Government’s Heritage Stimulus Fund means that 32 more historic churches and meeting houses are safe for future, offering a ‘great example of a project that helps keep churches open and in good repair’.
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NT: Government is ‘lagging behind’ on preparing for climate change, ahead of ‘make or break’ adaptation programme
The National Trust (NT) has issued a stark warning that the country’s much-loved heritage, landscapes and communities are under increasing threat from extreme weather events and warmer temperatures as a result of climate change.
image: NT website
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Empty offices amid construction boom reach record levels
With hybrid working continuing as the norm, and in the midst of a mighty construction boom, cities worldwide find themselves heaped with vacant offices.
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IHBC’s Context updates publication schedule… from glass (2023) to ventilation (December 2024)
The next schedule of planned themes for the IHBC’s Context, our in-house journal, has been posted, covering wide-ranging issues including Glass; Buildings in the countryside; Built & natural environment interface; Urban housing and Heating & ventilation.
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IHBC’s ‘Management’ signpost: DCMS Participation Survey 2021–22, annual report
The results of the Participation Survey, covering the period from October 2021 to March 2022 have been published.
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IHBC’s Stirling ‘Research’ signpost: Cultural creative hubs key to supporting local communities during crises
Experts at the University of Stirling are calling for the arts and culture to be prioritised in funding decisions after new research showed the significance of cultural hubs during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Illustration: Artist’s impression of Creative Stirling and the Kitchen at 44 King Street, Stirling – University of Stirling Policy Blog
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