Culture Secretary celebrates over 400 towns applying to be UK Town of Culture

Posted on 24/07/2026 by IHBC

The Culture Secretary visited the Museum of Liverpool yesterday to celebrate entires to the UK Town of Culture competition.

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Launch of 5 Year Action Plan for Scotland’s Landscape Charter

Posted on 24/07/2026 by IHBC

After one year of extensive consultation, Scotland’s Landscape Alliance has published its 5-Year Action Plan to help deliver Scotland’s Landscape Charter.

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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Dublin’s Temple Bar marks 35th anniversary- ‘Phenomenal success’

Posted on 24/07/2026 by IHBC

Dublin’s Temple Bar has marked its 35th anniversary by paying tribute to the EU funding which kick-started its regeneration in 1991, reports RTE News.

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SAHGB-IHBC Heritage Research Award 2026 open: Celebrates ‘research… in heritage and conservation practice’, to 20 August

Posted on 21/07/2026 by IHBC Admin

The IHBC and the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain (SAHGB) have launched the 2026 joint Heritage Research Award to celebrate ‘the quality of architectural-historical research.. in heritage and conservation practice’, for research from 2024 & closing 20 August.

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IHBC welcomes new Heritage Counts research for HE on ‘Retrofitting Traditional Buildings: Embodied Carbon Payback Times’

Posted on 21/07/2026 by IHBC Admin

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The IHBC has welcomed the new Heritage Counts research from Historic England (HE) on ‘Retrofitting Traditional Buildings: Embodied Carbon Payback Times’.

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IHBC’s 2026 Gus Astley Student Award for heritage work on UK courses: Open to 31/08 – Win £500 + free place at #IHBCBristolBath2027, on ‘Climate Change & Significance’

Posted on 21/07/2026 by IHBC Admin

The IHBC’s celebrated annual Gus Astley Student Award close on 31 August 2026, so if you have relevant coursework from ANY UK taught course – under-graduate or post-graduate, completed by 30 September 2025 OR 30 September 2026 – just submit it online and on time to have a chance to receive a cash prize at the IHBC’s Annual School in Bristol/Bath in June 2027, on ‘Climate Change & Significance’.

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IHBC research CPD signpost: … UK-wide survey: Heritage and Conservation Science Workforce: ‘‘Please complete and share’, from RICHeS and Icon, to 31 August

Posted on 21/07/2026 by IHBC Admin

The Research Infrastructure for Conservation and Heritage Science (RICHeS) has commissioned Icon to undertake the first ever UK-wide survey of the heritage and conservation science workforce and we need your help to make it count, open to 31/08.

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IHBC’s ‘Practice’ CPD Signpost: ‘Help Tackle One of Construction’s Biggest Killers: – Dust’…. a 5-minute survey open to 31 July

Posted on 21/07/2026 by IHBC Admin

Dr. Scott McGibbon IHBC, at Pvotal Consultancy, seeks help to develop flexible Silica dust CPD courses for professionals etc, and has launched a 5-minute survey to scope interest in tackling ‘One of Construction’s Biggest Killers: – Dust’.

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IHBC’s ‘Professional’ CPD Signpost: Centre for Cultural value on ESRC-funded scoping project: ‘… blueprint for a national cultural data observatory for the UK’

Posted on 21/07/2026 by IHBC Admin

A new scoping project to develop a ‘blueprint for a national cultural data observatory, a programme’ – funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) – is outlined for the Centre for Cultural Value, the national research centre based at the University of Leeds.

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IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’: Building on ‘How Bradford’s regeneration is driving its revival’

Posted on 21/07/2026 by IHBC Admin

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 Building on ‘’How Bradford’s regeneration is driving its revival’.

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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Moseley Road Baths secures full funding for Phase 2 – £9.27m from NLHF

Posted on 21/07/2026 by IHBC Admin

image for illustration: Moseley Road Baths, Tony Hisgett from Birmingham, UK, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Birmingham City Council announced that a new award completes a £16m funding package to restore the iconic Gala Pool, create a new Community Health & Wellbeing Hub, and reopen Birmingham’s Grade II* listed Edwardian Moseley Road baths to a new generation (with planned first ever CEO).

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BEFA/CIC: New report calls for data-led workforce planning to confront Built Environment skills permacrisis

Posted on 21/07/2026 by IHBC Admin

A decisive shift is urgently needed from reactive responses to built environment skills shortages to a more strategic, evidence- and demand-led approach to workforce planning, says the ‘Built Environment Strategic Workforce Planning for 2030’ report by Built Environment Futures Assembly (BEFA).

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BEFS POWF launches Ecclesiastical Exemption Survey

Posted on 21/07/2026 by IHBC Admin

A Built Environment Forum Scotland (BEFS) survey on behalf of the Places of Worship Forum (POWF) aims to gather information on the most effective mechanism to enable protection and continued use of these buildings, within the planning system and consents process (ecclesiastical exception or otherwise).

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UK Heritage Pulse 2026: May (Intangible Cultural Heritage)

Posted on 21/07/2026 by IHBC Admin

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The Heritage Fund’s ‘UK Heritage Pulse’ has placed its current ‘Spotlight’ on Intangible Cultural Heritage.

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SPAB Call for Papers for 150th Anniversary Conference, to 31/08, hosted by SPAB Scotland

Posted on 21/07/2026 by IHBC Admin

A one-day conference ‘Honest Repair: 150 Years On’, to hosted by SPAB Scotland at the Playfair Library in Edinburgh in 2027, invites papers that explore the relevance, application, and influence of the SPAB Approach in contemporary conservation, to 31/08.

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Jay Morton elected RIBA President (2027-2029)

Posted on 21/07/2026 by IHBC Admin

Jay Morton announced as our next President; to succeed Chris Williamson in 2027

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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: ‘Baked’, printed, ready – premiere of architecture made from yeast

Posted on 21/07/2026 by IHBC Admin

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have developed a new, entirely bio-based material from a somewhat unexpected ingredient: yeast.

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Bring built heritage into the heart of climate policy with Heritage Now: Join the Global Campaign and Explore the Toolkit

Posted on 21/07/2026 by IHBC Admin

Heritage Now! is a global campaign to harness the potential of built heritage for a resilient, climate positive and just future.

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IHBC welcomes CMS Parliamentary Cttee. conclusion on ‘Protecting built heritage’ & nod to our ‘5 Commitments’: ‘…deterioration of heritage… a major missed opportunity’

Posted on 17/07/2026 by IHBC Admin

The IHBC has welcomed the conclusions of the Parliamentary Culture, Media and Sport Committee’s (CMS) inquiry into ‘Protecting built heritage’ – that the ‘deterioration of heritage… represents a major missed opportunity…’ – especially its echo of heritage wastage in the IHBC’s own ‘From Crafts in Crisis to Rubbish in Retrofit’ report and 5 Commitments.

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IHBC’s 2026 Gus Astley Student Award for heritage work on UK courses: Open to 31/08 – Win £500 + free place at #IHBCBristolBath2027, on ‘Climate Change & Significance’

Posted on 17/07/2026 by IHBC Admin

The IHBC’s celebrated annual Gus Astley Student Award close on 31 August 2026, so if you have relevant coursework from ANY UK taught course – under-graduate or post-graduate, completed by 30 September 2025 OR 30 September 2026 – just submit it online and on time to have a chance to receive a cash prize at the IHBC’s Annual School in Bristol/Bath in June 2027, on ‘Climate Change & Significance’.

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FINAL 20 July close for IHBC’s initial ‘quick query’ to help local government conservation services: ‘… still time to shape our high-level advocacy’

Posted on 17/07/2026 by IHBC Admin

IHBC’s ‘quick query’ to Local Government conservation Officers and services for ‘advice, input and suggestions’ on possible improvements that we can pass on to UK Governments as part of our ‘5 Commitments to Parliament’ has had its closing date extended to 20 July.

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Spotlighting IHBC’s recent Council film, ‘Do Drop-in, before they drop out’: Our new, must-see interview on pre-Pre App options, and how talking to applicants can help make things better!

Posted on 17/07/2026 by IHBC Admin

IHBC’s latest Council received impressively positive feedback, as we advance the 3rd of our Parliamentary ‘5 Commitments to Help Heritage Skills in Conservation…’ exploring Local Authority (LA) conservation roles and services, and now spotlighting a new film that could change conservation, on ‘pre-Pre App’ conversations.

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IHBC research CPD signpost: … UK-wide survey: Heritage and Conservation Science Workforce: ‘‘Please complete and share’, from RICHeS and Icon, to 31 August

Posted on 17/07/2026 by IHBC Admin

The Research Infrastructure for Conservation and Heritage Science (RICHeS) has commissioned Icon to undertake the first ever UK-wide survey of the heritage and conservation science workforce and we need your help to make it count, open to 31/08.

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IHBC’s ‘Professional’ CPD Signpost: Government Research Report on ‘Impacts of public services being delivered by civil society organisations’

Posted on 17/07/2026 by IHBC Admin

A new Research Report published by Government explores ‘Impacts of public services being delivered by civil society organisations.

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IHBC Director’s pick from HESPR’s £663K+ costed works this week: Heritage body seeks green-led adaptation workshops, to 03/08, £20K

Posted on 17/07/2026 by IHBC Admin

The IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance service – sends members exclusive ‘News and Tender Alerts’, with the Director’s top taster for NewsBlog readers this week a call from a national heritage body for workshops on green-led adaptations, to 03/08 and £20k.

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