The ‘King’s Series of National Nature Reserves’ is to be launched, with first to be declared in Lincolnshire, as Natural England says this will leave a lasting public legacy for people and nature to celebrate the Coronation of His Majesty King Charles III.
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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
King’s nature reserves to leave lasting legacy for people and nature
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NHMF research report: The Heritage and Place Report – Driving long-term positive change through place-based funding
The National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) has issued research into the impact of its funding for placemaking – The Heritage and Place Report – to help it explore how our it can better support people and places to thrive across the UK.
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New research: Three quarters of tradespeople upskilling to go green
New research from Direct Line business insurance has found that three quarters (74 per cent) of tradespeople have upskilled themselves, enabling them to install green technology for clients, as eight-in-ten (79 per cent) have seen increasing demand from people to install greener technology in their homes.
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IHBC launches #IHBCPetitionforCharter consultation web hub & resource: Peruse, pass on and promote as suits, with funding for Branch initiatives open too
The IHBC has launched its consultation web hub & resource offering context, updates and more on the prospect of an IHBC Petition for Charter – #IHBCPetitionforCharter – to help engagement on the issues around the IHBC seeking a Royal Charter – the ‘Petition for Charter’ – with funding for volunteer and Branch initiatives open too.
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2023 Natural Stone Show Seminar programme out: Includes free IHBC Recognised CPD from HE on Conservation Day, 08/06
The IHBC will be at the Natural Stone Show in ExCeL on 6-8 June, with the full programme of free sessions in the Show’s Seminar Theatre now out, including Conservation Day (08/06), the Historic England (HE) programme of free IHBC-recognised CPD, so be sure to register NOW!
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IHBC opens call to c.130 Heritage MarketPlace Stalls with ‘Zoom Room’ offers to reach visitors at the MarketPlace:LIVE 2023 Swansea School online launch, 21 June, 4.30-7.00pm
The IHBC has written to Heritage MarketPlace stallholders – our recast web directory and hub for anyone seeking heritage-related support – offering the chance to host ‘Zoom Rooms’ to meet, guide and advise visitors to the online MarketPlace:LIVE launch of the 2023 Annual School: Climate Change and the Historic Environment’.
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Check out IHBC’s re-cast online Heritage MarketPlace, free to visit and use: Supporting #IHBCSwansea2023
The IHBC’s recast Heritage MarketPlace web resource is a new way to access, promote and secure quality services, advice, guidance and more on all aspects of heritage and conservation – its care, checking and changing – free and accessible to users, affordable and quality profiling for commercial and charity Stallholders.
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IHBC Welcomes MFL as Principal Sponsor for the 2023 Swansea Annual School, online and in Swansea, 21-24 June
The Institute of Historic Building Conservation (IHBC) is delighted to announce MFL, as the Principal Sponsor for the institute’s 2023 Annual School and Heritage MarketPlace:LIVE from 21-24 June 2023, in person in Swansea and online.
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IHBC Signpost via Designing Buildings and CIAT: Creating a new chapter for World Heritage Site, Caernarfon Castle
A report on a landmark project to redevelop the King’s Gate at Caernarfon Castle, published by CIAT, has been posted on Designing Buildings.
image: CIAT in DB
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IHBC’s HESPR ‘Special Interest News’: Designing Buildings features ‘New energy rules… a threat to towns and cities..’
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 highlights Designing Buildings on ‘New energy rules… a threat to towns and cities across UK’.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Edinburgh pink door woman sad after being forced to repaint
An Edinburgh woman says she is ‘sad and disappointed’ after being forced to repaint her pink front door, reports BBC’s local news.
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AHF: Nine Northern Ireland villages receive ‘Village Catalyst’ support
The Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF) has awarded nine new grants totalling £150,000 through the Village Catalyst partnership programme, supporting projects that breath new life into rural communities across Northern Ireland.
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Yasmeen Lari – ‘Architect for the Poorest of the Poor’ – to receive this year’s 2023 Royal Gold Medal
The Royal Gold Medal 2023 recipient is acclaimed Pakistani architect Yasmeen Lari.
image: for illustration – by BBC Urdu – World Environment Day: Pakistani architect who builds houses in just Rs. 50,000, CC BY 3.0
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£11m for conservation projects to help Wales’ endangered wildlife
Wales’ Minister for Climate Change Julie James has announced a pot of nearly £11m to help curb the decline of Wales’ wildlife.
image: Natural Resources Wales website
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Winners of AJ Small Projects award 2023 announced
OGU Architects and MMAS have been named winners of the Architect’s Journal ‘AJ Small Projects’ awards 2023 at an event at Morris+Company’s offices in Hackney.
image: for illustration Albert Bridge / Adelaide Street, Belfast (part)
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Expressions of interest open for National Infrastructure Early Adopters Programme
The Planning Inspectorate is trialling potential components of a future enhanced pre-application service for National Infrastructure.
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IHBC welcomes address by Welsh Government Deputy Minister for Arts, Sports & Tourism, Dawn Bowden MS, to the 2023 Day School – ‘Climate Change and the Historic Environment’ – 23 June, in Swansea and online: #IHBCSwansea2023
The IHBC warmly welcomes the agreement by Welsh Government Deputy Minister for Arts, Sports & Tourism, Dawn Bowden MS to address Day School delegates – in Swansea and online – at the IHBC’s 2023 Annual School: ‘Climate Change the Historic Environment, Resilience and Performance’.
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IHBC opens call to 128 Heritage MarketPlace Stalls with ‘Zoom Room’ offers to reach visitors at the MarketPlace:LIVE 2023 Swansea School online launch, 21 June, 4.30-7.00pm
The IHBC has written to Heritage MarketPlace stallholders – our recast web directory and hub for anyone seeking heritage-related support – offering the chance to host ‘Zoom Rooms’ to meet, guide and advise visitors to the online MarketPlace:LIVE launch of the 2023 Annual School: Climate Change and the Historic Environment’.
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Serious about your career? Sign up for IHBC’s ‘Jobs etc.’, now seeks surveyors, regulators, advisers etc., on maintenance, retrofit, design & more, at Eton, HE, Landmark Trust and beyond
To help connect employers’ needs and practitioners’ skills, the IHBC regularly updates NewsBlog readers on the diverse opportunities in our ‘IHBC Jobs etc.’ service, so be sure to sign up for free alerts and ‘stay ahead’ with the our unique career service!
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IHBC is at the 2023 Natural Stone Show… naturally – with new MarketPlace, Schools, HESPR, Wiki & more, Excel, 6-8 June (IHBC CPD Recognised Conservation Day: 8 June)
The IHBC will join thousands of industry professionals and over 200 exhibitors at the Natural Stone Show at Excel on 6-8 June, with IHBC Recognised CPD at the Historic England-sponsored Conservation Day (8 June), and all free!
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Check out IHBC’s re-cast online Heritage MarketPlace, #IHBCMarketPlace, free to visit and use: Supporting #IHBCSwansea2023
The IHBC’s recast Heritage MarketPlace web resource is a new way to access, promote and secure quality services, advice, guidance and more on all aspects of heritage and conservation – its care, checking and changing – free and accessible to users, affordable and quality profiling for commercial and charity Stallholders.
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IHBC Research Signpost: DCMS publishes ‘Cultural Recovery Fund data report’
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has published its ‘Cultural Recovery Fund data report’ based on management data based on applicant-supplied information.
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IHBC’s HESPR weekly pick from £70K costed works: Museum calls for activity planner, closing 06/06, valued £20K
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 IHBC Director’s pick for this week features a Museum’s call for Activity Planning Services linked to the Lottery, closing 06/06, valued £20K.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Calls for hillfort housing decision to go to planning committee
Campaigners have escalated public concerns over the controversial bid to build housing in the setting of Old Oswestry Hillfort by calling in the planning application for committee determination, reports Shropshire Live.
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THA circulates delegate update on England’s Heritage Day 2023
The Heritage Alliance has circulated an update and reminder to delegates on the Heritage Day 2023 experience hosted at the Charterhouse in London, including recordings, pics and more.
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