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- IHBC’s December ‘CPD Circular’ now out: Accessible, cost-conscious learning, events & resources, with Branch & National AGMs, Surgeries, CPD Partnerships & more 28/11/2025
- IHBC Supporter Surgery for aspiring Affiliates: Have you registered yet? 11 December, 1pm (IHBC CPD too!) 28/11/2025
- IHBC’s 2025 Parliamentary Briefing launches research-led ‘5 Commitments to Help Heritage Skills in Conservation’… From Crafts in Crisis to Rubbish in Retrofit 28/11/2025
- IHBC welcomes new joint CEOs at Historic England to post 28/11/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Professional’ & ‘Management ‘ Signpost: DB’s ‘brief outline of the Planning and Infrastructure Bill’, with terms, and amendments 28/11/2025
- IHBC Director’s pick from HESPR’s £2.4M+ of weekly works: BC seeks review of Conservation Areas, to £50K 28/11/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Two companies fined total of £190k for unauthorised Grade I listed building works following BNES council prosecution 28/11/2025
- Government consultation: ‘Reforms to the statutory consultee system’, to 13/01/2026 28/11/2025
- Gardens Trust on ‘Government Consultation on Removal of the Gardens Trust as a Statutory Consultee’ 28/11/2025
- NLHF launches Future Heritage Leadership Programme, open to 10/12, starting March 2026 28/11/2025
- As UK City of Culture 2029 opens, new ‘UK Town of Culture’ competition – to shine a spotlight on towns – opens soon too 28/11/2025
- UK Parliamentary Cttee. launches International Climate Policy Inquiry, ‘on UK climate policy and finance’, seeking evidence, to 7/01/2026 28/11/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: European Heritage Excellence Day 2025 spotlights innovation, creativity and community engagement 28/11/2025
- PAS 28/11/2025
- Career conscious & in conservation? IHBC’s ‘Jobs etc.’ services spans disciplines, levels & sectors, linked by interdisciplinary conservation practice standards delivering public benefit 25/11/2025
- IHBC’s 2025 Parliamentary Briefing launches research-led ‘5 Commitments to Help Heritage Skills in Conservation’… From Crafts in Crisis to Rubbish in Retrofit 25/11/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Evaluation’ Signpost from Sheehan Quirke via Open Culture: ‘How did the world get so ugly?’ 25/11/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (duplicate) doorstep’: Plans for first Iron Age broch ‘in 2000 years’ approved for Highlands 25/11/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (Lottery) doorstep’: Historic Birnbeck pier saved as surprise funding announced from NLHF 25/11/2025
- ‘Natural England’s Strategy: Recovering Nature for Growth, Health and Security’ – with ‘nature as essential to sustaining growth and a healthy society’ 25/11/2025
- HE & ACE issue first parts of suite of guidance, templates and factsheets etc. 25/11/2025
- Government’s Pride in Place: Strategy update 25/11/2025
- Winners of the Georgian Group Architectural Awards announced! 25/11/2025
- Joining the dots: A single EDI portal for the sector 25/11/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Worker dies after partial collapse of medieval tower in Rome 25/11/2025
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IHBC’s 2024 Gus Astley Student Award winners and prizes announced: Ailsa Bailey wins top Award, with Highly Commended and Booth-Bird CMP prizes too
The winners of the IHBC Gus Astley Student Awards for 2024 have been selected by guest judge Nathan Baker, former CEO of the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists (CIfA), with winners offered free places at the Annual School in Shrewsbury – … Continue reading
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IHBC’s 2024 Gus Astley Student Award winners and prizes announced: Ailsa Bailey wins top Award, with Highly Commended and Booth-Bird CMP prizes too
The winners of the IHBC Gus Astley Student Awards for 2024 have been selected by guest judge Nathan Baker, former CEO of the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists (CIfA), with winners offered free places at the Annual School in Shrewsbury – … Continue reading
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LAST CHANCES: Nominations sought for IHBC’s TWO Marsh Awards: ‘Successful Learning’ AND/OR ‘Community Contribution (Retired Members) – to 31 March 2025
The two IHBC Marsh Awards, developed in partnership with the Marsh Charitable Trust, celebrate ‘Community Contributions’ by retired IHBC members, as well as ‘Successful Learning’ in heritage-related skills, with £500 and free places at IHBC’s 2025 Annual School in Shrewsbury … Continue reading
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LAST CHANCES: Nominations sought for IHBC’s TWO Marsh Awards: ‘Successful Learning’ AND/OR ‘Community Contribution (Retired Members) – to 31 March 2025
The two IHBC Marsh Awards, developed in partnership with the Marsh Charitable Trust, celebrate ‘Community Contributions’ by retired IHBC members, as well as ‘Successful Learning’ in heritage-related skills, with £500 and free places at IHBC’s 2025 Annual School in Shrewsbury … Continue reading
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LAST CHANCES: Nominations sought for IHBC’s TWO Marsh Awards: ‘Successful Learning’ AND/OR ‘Community Contribution (Retired Members) – to 31 March 2025
The two IHBC Marsh Awards, developed in partnership with the Marsh Charitable Trust, celebrate ‘Community Contributions’ by retired IHBC members, as well as ‘Successful Learning’ in heritage-related skills, with £500 and free places at IHBC’s 2025 Annual School in Shrewsbury … Continue reading
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CLOSING SOON:Nominations sought for IHBC’s TWO Marsh Awards: ‘Successful Learning’ AND/OR ‘Community Contribution (Retired Members) – to 31 March 2025
The two IHBC Marsh Awards, developed in partnership with the Marsh Charitable Trust, celebrate ‘Community Contributions’ by retired IHBC members, as well as ‘Successful Learning’ in heritage-related skills, with £500 and free places at IHBC’s 2025 Annual School in Shrewsbury … Continue reading
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Booking opens for IHBC’s 2025 School, #IHBCShrewsbury2025, June 12-14: Certified CPD on ‘Heritage in Context – Value: Plan: Change’ – From £35+VAT (Online Day School), free pre-conference webinars and more.. for all your conservation needs… ‘in Context’
Booking is now open for the IHBC’s 2025 Annual School – #IHBCShrewsbury2025 – in wonderful Shrewsbury, on 12-14 June, centred on our hybrid (in-person & Virtual) Day School (13 June), with certified IHBC CPD, exhibitors, pre-conference webinars, networking & more
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CLOSING SOON:Nominations sought for IHBC’s TWO Marsh Awards: ‘Successful Learning’ AND/OR ‘Community Contribution (Retired Members) – to 31 March 2025
Know any emerging professionals or practitioners who’ve shown eagerness and accomplishment in learning new conservation trades or skills, or retired conservation professionals giving back to their local communities – Nominate them for an IHBC-MARSH Award to celebrate their contributions!
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IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’: IHBC’s double-up – Designing Buildings on Conservation Wiki + Marsh Awards to 31/03
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 Designing Buildings (DB) on IHBC’s Conservation Wiki – ‘Everything you … Continue reading
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IHBC MARSH Awards – Nominations closing soon: For emerging practitioners’ skills AND Retired IHBC helping communities, ‘Just fill the form by March Thirty One’
Know any emerging professionals or practitioners who’ve shown eagerness and accomplishment in learning new conservation trades or skills, or retired conservation professionals giving back to their local communities – Nominate them for an IHBC-MARSH Award to celebrate their contributions!
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IHBC MARSH Awards – Nominations closing soon: For emerging practitioners’ skills AND Retired IHBC helping communities, ‘Just fill the form by March Thirty One’
Know any emerging professionals or practitioners who’ve shown eagerness and accomplishment in learning new conservation trades or skills, or retired conservation professionals giving back to their local communities – Nominate them for an IHBC-MARSH Award to celebrate their contributions!
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NCT: Church architecture awards winners 2024 announced
image for illustration: St James the Great, Aslackby, near Sleaford, Lincolnshire by Acabashi – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Commons Wikimedia The National Churches Trust has announced the winners of the church architecture awards 2024.
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Nominations sought for IHBC’s TWO Marsh Awards: ‘Successful Learning’ AND/OR ‘Community Contribution (Retired Members) – to 31 March 2025
The two IHBC Marsh Awards, developed in partnership with the Marsh Charitable Trust, celebrate ‘Community Contributions’ by retired IHBC members, as well as ‘Successful Learning’ in heritage-related skills, with £500 and free places at IHBC’s 2025 Annual School in Shrewsbury … Continue reading
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IHBC’s February ‘CPD Circular’: For cost-conscious and time-sensitive conservation learning – events, awards, calls and more – including welcomes to new Providers
IHBC’s new CPD Circular offers our current listing of accessible, cost-effective ‘Continuing Professional Development’ (CPD) opportunities for historic and built environment conservation professionals and their networks, with the usual range of Branch and network events, publications, awards and more, and … Continue reading
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Nominations sought for IHBC’s TWO Marsh Awards: ‘Successful Learning’ AND/OR ‘Community Contribution (Retired Members) – to 31 March 2025
The two IHBC Marsh Awards, developed in partnership with the Marsh Charitable Trust, celebrate ‘Community Contributions’ by retired IHBC members, as well as ‘Successful Learning’ in heritage-related skills, with £500 and free places at IHBC’s 2025 Annual School in Shrewsbury … Continue reading
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IHBC’s TWO Marsh Awards for 2025: Nominations sought for ‘Successful Learning’ AND/OR ‘Community Contribution (Retired Members) – to 31 March 2025
The two IHBC Marsh Awards, developed in partnership with the Marsh Charitable Trust, celebrate ‘Community Contributions’ by retired IHBC members, as well as ‘Successful Learning’ in heritage-related skills, with £500 and free places at IHBC’s 2025 Annual School in Shrewsbury … Continue reading
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IHBC’s TWO Marsh Awards for 2025: Nominations sought for ‘Successful Learning’ AND/OR ‘Community Contribution (Retired Members) – to 31 March 2025
The two IHBC Marsh Awards, developed in partnership with the Marsh Charitable Trust, celebrate ‘Community Contributions’ by retired IHBC members, as well as ‘Successful Learning’ in heritage-related skills, with £500 and free places at IHBC’s 2025 Annual School in Shrewsbury … Continue reading
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IHBC’s TWO Marsh Awards for 2025: Nominations sought for ‘Successful Learning’ AND/OR ‘Community Contribution (Retired Members) – to 31 March 2025
The two IHBC Marsh Awards, developed in partnership with the Marsh Charitable Trust, celebrate ‘Community Contributions’ by retired IHBC members, as well as ‘Successful Learning’ in heritage-related skills, with £500 and free places at IHBC’s 2025 Annual School in Shrewsbury … Continue reading
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IHBC’s TWO Marsh Awards for 2025: Nominations sought for ‘Successful Learning’ AND/OR ‘Community Contribution (Retired Members) – to 31 March 2025
The two IHBC Marsh Awards, developed in partnership with the Marsh Charitable Trust, celebrate ‘Community Contributions’ by retired IHBC members, as well as ‘Successful Learning’ in heritage-related skills, with £500 and free places at IHBC’s 2025 Annual School in Shrewsbury … Continue reading
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IHBC’s TWO Marsh Awards for 2025: Nominations sought for ‘Successful Learning’ AND/OR ‘Community Contribution (Retired Members) – to 31 March 2025
The two IHBC Marsh Awards, developed in partnership with the Marsh Charitable Trust, celebrate ‘Community Contributions’ by retired IHBC members, as well as ‘Successful Learning’ in heritage-related skills, with £500 and free places at IHBC’s 2025 Annual School in Shrewsbury … Continue reading
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IHBC’s TWO Marsh Awards for 2025: Nominations sought for ‘Successful Learning’ AND/OR ‘Community Contribution (Retired Members) – to 31 March 2025
The two IHBC Marsh Awards, developed in partnership with the Marsh Charitable Trust, celebrate ‘Community Contributions’ by retired IHBC members, as well as ‘Successful Learning’ in heritage-related skills, with £500 and free places at IHBC’s 2025 Annual School in Shrewsbury … Continue reading
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IHBC’s TWO Marsh Awards for 2025: Nominations sought for ‘Successful Learning’ AND/OR ‘Community Contribution (Retired Members) – to 31 March 2025
The two IHBC Marsh Awards, developed in partnership with the Marsh Charitable Trust, celebrate ‘Community Contributions’ by retired IHBC members, as well as ‘Successful Learning’ in heritage-related skills, with £500 and free places at IHBC’s 2025 Annual School in Shrewsbury … Continue reading
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Winners of the 2024 Heritage Crafts Awards announced
image for illustration: Open Government Licence v3.0 Traditional boat builder Gail McGarva has won the fifth annual President’s Award for Endangered Crafts at the 2024 Heritage Crafts Awards, supported by headline sponsor The Royal Mint and venue sponsor English Heritage.
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IHBC looks ahead to 2025 No.2: Congratulations to 2024 ‘SAHGB-IHBC Research Award’ winners ‘double up’ – Dalkeith Palace & Thaxted Market Cross
The SAHGB-IHBC Heritage Research Award for 2024 was announced and presented at the SAHGB Annual Awards ceremony – which took place at the church of St Anne’s, Limehouse, one of Nicholas Hawksmoor’s six London churches – as joint winners’ research … Continue reading
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