ICON launches revamped ‘Find a Conservator Service’… easier than ever to access trusted conservation specialists across the UK

Posted on 05/08/2025 by IHBC

The Institute of Conservation (ICON) has launched its revamped Find a Conservator Service providing a refreshed, user-friendly platform to help individuals and organisations find accredited conservation experts with ease.

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Places of Worship Forum (POWF) launches inaugural Newsletter: COSS on ‘New Futures Programme – Former places of Worship in Scotland’

Posted on 05/08/2025 by IHBC

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The new Places of Worship Forum (POWF) Newsletter includes Audrey Dunn, Churches Advisor at COSS (Community Ownership Support Services) introducing their New Futures Programme – Former places of Worship in Scotland a new initiative dedicated to supporting churches into community ownership.

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Architect reports Glasgow City Council to police over tenement collapse

Posted on 05/08/2025 by IHBC

An architect has reported Glasgow City Council to Police Scotland, alleging that the local authority failed in its legal responsibility to maintain a derelict tenement in Pollokshields.

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Arts Council’s Creative Foundations Fund launched – Guidance for applicants on support for arts and cultural organisations

Posted on 05/08/2025 by IHBC

The Creative Foundations Fund (CFF) has been launched by The Arts Council to support arts and cultural organisations across England.

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Career conscious & in conservation? IHBC’s ‘Jobs etc.’ reaches across disciplines, levels & sectors, and now countries too as Wexford CC seeks Exec ACO, to €82,929!

Posted on 01/08/2025 by IHBC

To connect employers’ needs and practitioners’ skills, the IHBC updates NewsBlog readers on the wide-ranging opportunities on our ‘IHBC Jobs etc.’ service, so sign up for free alerts, and tell your boss how our targeted subsidies for adverts, outlined below, helps them too, including in Ireland!

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BOOKING ENDS MONDAY – IHBC NW goes hybrid on ‘Placemaking & Context’, with Dave Chetwyn in Lancaster, 6/08, from£15

Posted on 01/08/2025 by IHBC

Join the IHBC’s North West (NW) Branch and Dave Chetwyn of Urban Vision Enterprise online or in person for a programme of ‘Placemaking & Context’ CPD, site-specific in Lancaster too, Wednesday 6 August, with fees (online) from £15, as another ‘IHBC CPD Branch Partnership’ event.

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Need a MATE? Last chance for 5 August: IHBC’s free monthly online accreditation guidance… all welcome, including accredited members seeking CPD updates and roles in IHBC training and assessments

Posted on 01/08/2025 by IHBC

As part of the IHBC’s evolving Membership Accreditation Training Events (MATEs) programme, which advises on IHBC accreditation applications, we’re offering free webinars for applicants as we pilot streamlined application forms and expanded resources.

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REMINDER: IHBC welcomes RICS’ #IHBCShrewsbury2025 School ‘Friend’ benefit: RICS’ rates for members at Global Building Conservation Conference, ‘Sharing heritage skills…’, 25/09, online, 7hrs CPD

Posted on 01/08/2025 by IHBC

The IHBC is delighted to announce that, thanks not least to the efforts of our West Midlands Branch team and School Friend lead, RICS & IHBC member Jessica Jones, IHBC members (all categories) can enjoy RICS rates at the online Global Building Conservation Conference, on 25/09, on how to ‘… Sharing heritage skill-sets with the next generation’.

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IHBC’s ‘Finance and Economics’ Signpost: From DCMS & London Economics ‘Estimating the economic and social value of volunteering’

Posted on 01/08/2025 by IHBC

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has issued a London Economics report to monetise the economic and social value of volunteering in England.

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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Iconic Round House building renovation to begin in Evesham

Posted on 01/08/2025 by IHBC

image for illustration: The Round House, Evesham (2018) by Joanna Theobald

Work is set to begin on an iconic Round House building in the town centre that has been covered in scaffolding for more than a year, reports The Evesham Journal.

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UPDATE: Coalition secures Peter Womersley’s Bernat Klein Studio for the nation, for £279,000

Posted on 01/08/2025 by IHBC

image for illustration: Bernat Klein Studio 2010 by Jonathan Oldenbuck, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

A coalition of leading Scottish heritage and design organisations – The Bernat Klein Foundation (BKF), the National Trust for Scotland (NTS) and Scottish Historic Buildings Trust (SHBT) – has been successful in buying the Bernat Klein Studio at auction, saving the modernist masterpiece for the nation.

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Derbyshire HBT campaign promotes Parliamentary petition on Wingfield Manor ‘preservation and protection’ presented by Linsey Farnsworth MP

Posted on 01/08/2025 by IHBC

image for illustration: Sam Styles / Wingfield Manor Commons Wiki

Following promotion by Derbyshire Historic Buildings Trust Linsey Farnsworth MP (Labour, Amber Valley) has presented a petition to Parliament on the future of Wingfield Manor, calling for its preservation and protection.

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THA’s refreshed Heritage Funding Directory is Live

Posted on 01/08/2025 by IHBC

After months of research and development, we successfully unveiled the refreshed Heritage Funding Directory, with thanks to our sponsors Historic Houses Foundation, PixelFridge, and Architectural Heritage Fund.

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AHF: £400K+ grants help communities rescue & repurpose England’s Historic Buildings

Posted on 01/08/2025 by IHBC

The Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF) is very pleased to announce that it has awarded additional grants through the Heritage Revival Fund, with £424,738 given in support of nine different projects in June, ranging from a former parish school in Gateshead to a historic coaching inn in Great Torrington.

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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Royal Museums Greenwich: Landmark capital project ‘First Light’ to transform Royal Observatory, home of GMT & Prime Meridian

Posted on 01/08/2025 by IHBC

image for illustration: Royal Observatory, South Building, Greenwich by Chris Morgan, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The Royal Museums Greenwich is ‘Transforming the Royal Observatory…’, embarking on a landmark capital project known as ‘First Light’ to make science and astronomy accessible to all.

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IHBC sends #IHBCShrewsbury2025 delegates Day School videos: ‘Heritage in Context – Value : Plan : Change’ – and welcomes all seeking CPD, insights and more, from only £42 +VAT

Posted on 29/07/2025 by IHBC

Selected recordings of the IHBC’s 2025 Day School, on 13 June, have been made available to all delegates, so if you’ve not received your access links, let us know at booking@ihbc.org.uk.

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REMINDER: #IHBCShrewsbury2025’s first CPD scoping on ‘Boosting your School CPD’: Adding value to School learning, with a call for examples & suggestions from delegates

Posted on 29/07/2025 by IHBC

The IHBC’s recent exploration of a Charter has helped focus our support for interdisciplinary learning by Conservation Professionals, so we’re looking at how our Schools can help delegates add value for themselves and their networks, and calling for more ideas and suggestions from delegates and members.

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Need a MATE? Next chance 5 August:  IHBC’s free monthly online accreditation guidance… all welcome, including accredited members seeking CPD updates and roles in IHBC training and assessments

Posted on 29/07/2025 by IHBC

As part of the IHBC’s evolving Membership Accreditation Training Events (MATEs) programme, which advises on IHBC accreditation applications, we’re offering free webinars for applicants as we pilot streamlined application forms and expanded resources.

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IHBC’s ‘Design’ Signpost: HE’s ‘Design in the Historic Environment’ update

Posted on 29/07/2025 by IHBC

Historic England (HE) provides information on good practice for design when making changes to the built historic environment through development.

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IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’: SHN on ‘student accommodation near to Glasgow School of Art called in’

Posted on 29/07/2025 by IHBC

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 Scottish Housing News that Glasgow student accommodation plans near to Glasgow School of Art (GSoA) has been called in’.

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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Hull CC confirms repair works to begin at Drypool Bridge Hull

Posted on 29/07/2025 by IHBC

image for illustration: Drypool Bridge, Hull by Ian S, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Hull Live reports that Hull City Council (CC) has confirmed that major repair works are to begin at Drypool Bridge, a Scherzer Rolling Bascule Bridge.

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IStructE: Drought, prolonged dry weather, and heatwaves – subsidence risks could increase… and the signs to check

Posted on 29/07/2025 by IHBC

The Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE) explains what an increase in subsidence problems could mean, and the signs to look out for so that homeowners are aware.

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Funding the future of traditional skills in Scotland: ‘Centre of Excellence for Canals & Traditional Skills’

Posted on 29/07/2025 by IHBC

image for illustration: Thatching in Scotland by Fiona Newton

A new national training centre for Scotland, focused on traditional skills, has secured £3.7m of National Lottery support.

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HE issues amended HEA Note 10 on ‘Listed Buildings and Curtilage’: … for the LPA to conclude..

Posted on 29/07/2025 by IHBC

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Historic England’s (HE’s) Planning Bulletin from June has noted the amended update of its ‘HEAN 10: Listed Buildings and Curtilage (June 2025)’, noting that it is ‘for the local planning authority [LPA] to reach a conclusion as to whether or not buildings are within a particular curtilage’.

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BBC: National Trust blames tax rises as it cuts 550 jobs

Posted on 29/07/2025 by IHBC

The National Trust has announced plans to cut 6% of its current workforce, about 550 jobs, partly blaming an inflated pay bill and tax rises.

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