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- Context 184 under the spotlight: IHBC’s accessible CPD for Conservation Professionals, featuring Past President Mike Brown’s Vox Pop 14/10/2025
- IHBC’s Communications and Outreach Strategy 2025-28 now online 14/10/2025
- IHBC’s Annual School ‘Save the Date’ notice & Home Page launch: IHBC’s 2026 Newcastle School, 18-20 June, on ‘Adaptive Reuse’ & up to 20 hours CPD – accessible, interdisciplinary, cost-effective 14/10/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: GII Coventry Baths demolition approved by Historic England 14/10/2025
- Government responds to Parliamentary Report on Home Retrofitting with £13.2bn programme 14/10/2025
- HH: Lack of support from Scottish Government threatening heritage tourism sector 14/10/2025
- People across the country set to benefit from £4M boost to improve accessibility to arts and culture: Open to 14/11 14/10/2025
- THA’s Heritage and Placemaking Survey and Call for Case Studies – they want to hear from you… by 17 October 14/10/2025
- BSRIA: Wellbeing in Buildings (TG 10/2025) 14/10/2025
- ‘Remaking the relationship between citizens and the built environment’, a blog via Demos 14/10/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Heritage home in Canada demolished despite Heritage Act 14/10/2025
- Career conscious & in conservation? IHBC’s ‘Jobs etc.’ reaches across disciplines, levels & sectors, from charities – led here by Scotland & CEOs – to Officers (LG) Inspectors (HE) & more 10/10/2025
- Context 184 under the spotlight: IHBC’s accessible CPD for Conservation Professionals, offers insights into ‘The world of generative AI’ 10/10/2025
- IHBC welcomes Gardens Trust report into the role of historic parks and gardens in the 21st century 10/10/2025
- IHBC joins 33 leading organisations calling for £6.8M in urgent funding to support Planning Schools 10/10/2025
- IHBC launches FREE ‘Events Calendar’ submission form – with potential for inclusion in our celebrated monthly CPD Circular 10/10/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Heritage from the doorstep’ (& ‘Management’ signpost): AJ on legal challenge to Barbican demolition… which ‘can proceed’ 10/10/2025
- Chancellor appoints infrastructure and planning adviser to clear path for new investments… to ‘do what it takes to get Britain building’ 10/10/2025
- Scotland’s ‘Properties and Collections Strategy: Towards Sustainable Stewardship’ consultation draft out, open to 23/01 10/10/2025
- £214m new funding for Welsh communities to improve neighbourhoods and restore pride 10/10/2025
- RICS calls for expressions of interest for pilot programmes of new professional pathways 10/10/2025
- RTPI launches five-year strategy to elevate planning: Empower 2030 10/10/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Donovan Rypkema & Heritage Strategies International seek input on ‘measuring in Arts, Culture, and Heritage’ 10/10/2025
- Presidential invite to IHBC’s ‘members-only’ online Council Wednesday 8 October, 4.30pm, on ‘Heritage Skills & the Conservation Professional’, Charter explorations & more 07/10/2025
- IHBC’s CPD Blog from #IHBCShrewsbury2025: Some ‘Academic Reflections on the IHBC Annual School… and participation’ from Dr Alison McCandlish IHBC, University of Glasgow 07/10/2025
Tag Archives: church
IHBC welcomes re-opening of Notre-Dame Cathedral of Paris: 7-8 December, in time for Christmas 2025
image for illustration: by Ali Sabbagh – Notre Dame De Paris, CC0, Ali Sabbagh, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons The reopening of Notre-Dame will extend from December 7-8, 2024, and after, including the Octave of Reopening (8 to 15 December) and … Continue reading
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NCT’s critical Autumn Budget update for UK churches
image for illustration: Peter Badcock The National Churches Trust (NCT) is campaigning to highlight threats – and prospective campaign solutions, centred on a letter to your MP – to the Listed Places of Worship tax relief that allows VAT reclaims … Continue reading
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Friends of Friendless Churches: ‘Latest News’, on churches in care – Wales, wall paintings, service dates and more
image: canvases and triple decker pulpit, St Doged’s, Llanddoged The ‘Latest News’ bulletin from Friends of Friendless Churches updates on a new church in their care, St Doged’s, Llanddoged and offers an inside look at our works at St James’s, … Continue reading
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NCT’s ‘Discover Churches’: A Toolkit for Welcoming Visitors
The National Churches Trust (NCT) has a guide ‘Explore churches – Discover Churches: A Toolkit for Welcoming Visitors and a resource’ – designed to help volunteers extend a warm and meaningful welcome to visitors exploring church heritage, art, and community.
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National Churches Trust: The house of good & easing pressures on the NHS
A new National Churches Trust research report – The house of good: health: Churches are good for our health – shows that the UK’s churches take an immense amount of pressure off the NHS.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (Portsmouth) doorstep’ 2: Cathedral wins £118K Lottery funds for Visitor Experience space
Portsmouth Cathedral has announced it has been awarded nearly £118,000 by The National Lottery Heritage Fund to transform the visitor experience within the Cathedral.
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The National Lottery Heritage Fund awards nearly £5M for conservation ‘expansion’ in Church of England parishes
image for illustration: Peter Badcock The Church of England has been awarded nearly £5 million to fund a ‘much needed’ expansion in work to conserve cultural and historical heritage in parish churches in a grant from The National Lottery Heritage … Continue reading
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Closing churches cuts worship numbers, National Churches Trust poll finds
image for illustration In person church attendance can fall by almost a third (29%) if a local church closes, a new opinion poll commissioned by the National Churches Trust shows, with 22% of churchgoers who currently attend religious services in … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the ‘Lottery’ doorstep’: Cherished churches and heritage receive £7.4M, thanks to Lottery players
From restoring buildings with centuries of choral heritage to championing environmental sustainability, The Heritage Fund is celebrating heritage gems that will thrive again thanks to National Lottery players.
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From Church to Cultarlann: AHF supports creation of Scotland’s first Gaelic Cultural Centre
The Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF) has awarded a Project Development Grant to Cultarlann Inbhir Nis to progress plans to establish a Gaelic Cultural Centre, following up on its earlier, successful investment.
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The world of Suffolk’s remarkable churches unveiled
‘Guides to Suffolk Churches Online’ launched on the 50th anniversary of the Suffolk Historic Churches Trust (SHCT) Foundation Day (21st December 1972).
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English cathedrals become registered charities
image for illustration All 41 Church of England cathedrals have become registered charities, co-regulated by the Charity Commission and Church Commissioners.
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