The IHBC is delighted to thank all for your strong response to our Heritage Staff Wellbeing at Work survey, helping us understand the current state of wellbeing among those working and volunteering in the heritage sector, and to ensure we capture a full and representative picture, we’re extending the deadline to Wednesday 22 May, 11.59pm.
Continue readingGovernment UK has issued a new report, ‘An independent review of Defra’s regulatory landscape…’.
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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 Defra social media call for 30 new Board Members for England’s National Park Authorities (NPAs) & National Landscape Conservation Boards.
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Donegal County Council’s award-winning Thatch Repair Grant Scheme has opened for applications.
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Government UK reports that a new AI tool aims to modernise council planning by replacing outdated paper systems with high-quality digital data, enabling faster, smarter decisions to support the government’s goal of building 1.5 million homes.
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Government UK has launched £20Mn of support funds to boost people’s access to local heritage, to increase opportunities for all.
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The Welsh Government has issued a consultation survey seeking views from charities on volunteering, to 30 May.
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A record £13.9 billion funding outlined to support transformational R&D in areas like life sciences, green energy, engineering and beyond has been reported by Government UK.
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The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) is looking for 30 Board Members of National Park Authorities and National Landscape Conservation Boards: to 19/05.
Continue readingEvery quango across government will be reviewed, with a view to close, merge or bring functions back into departments if its continued existence cannot be justified.
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The IHBC’s Angharad Hart, Education and Application Support Officer, has been holding the fort at our stand in the Heritage Hub at London’s UK Construction Week (UKCW), including The Stone Show, helped by IHBC’s Michael Netter – also the STBA’s Director – alongside SPAB, ICON, and host partners, Historic England led by Clara Willet IHBC.
Continue readingNewsBlog readers may find value in some takes and comments on the Planning and Infrastructure Bill (PIB) and amendments, from LinkedIn (a LinkedIn account is needed to access some links).
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The IHBC has issued its regular reminder to our voting members (Full, Associate and Retired) that proxy voting in advance of our Annual General meetings (AGM) is strongly encouraged, not least to minimise costs, ensure quorum and make the best use of time.
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Following on from the launch of the 2025 Annual School and the linked pre-conference CPD in Redruth on 13 March, the IHBC is delighted to announce a series of online lunchtime webinars across a variety of topics that relate to the school theme of ‘Heritage in Context’, all open to everyone and free to attend, and all supporting #IHBCShrewsbury2025.
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IHBC’s President Rebecca Thompson, Director of Property for St Paul’s Cathedral, will speak on ‘Historic and Heritage Places and Assets’ on 20 May at the Leeds UKREiiF 2025’, a forum dedicated to unlocking investment and driving regeneration and development across the UK.
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The IHBC has updated the 2025 AGM’s formal notice – for 13 May, with online proceedings from 5.30pm for a 6.00pm start – which includes a new pre-AGM talk, by Tim Greensmith and entitled ‘Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings – Back from the Brink’, which still serves as a membership-only prelude to our 2025 Annual School in Shrewsbury, from 12-14 June: #IHBCShrewsbury2025.
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The IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance service – emails members regular ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and the IHBC Director’s pick this week is a call from a Church Council for a fixed term Heritage Manager, to 16/05 and £41K.
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image for illustration: Hangar at Old Sarum Airfield by Jonathan Hutchins, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Old Sarum Airfield director Grenville Hodge says his company is ‘devastated’ after a fire tore through a historic aircraft hangar, reports the Salisbury Journal.
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Government reforms will streamline and modernise regulation to unlock growth, deliver 1.5 million homes and do more for nature under the Plan for Change.
Continue readingThe 20thCentury Society (C20) has issued ‘Reuse Them or Lose Them…’, its 2025 Risk List highlighting outstanding 20th and 21st century buildings across the country that are at risk from demolition, dereliction or neglect.
Continue readingThe Welsh Government has issued a consultation survey seeking views from charities on volunteering, to 30 May.
Continue readingThe Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) is looking for 30 Board Members of National Park Authorities and National Landscape Conservation Boards: to 19/05.
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Issue 28 of the Historic England (HE) Research Magazine covers a major study of the heritage of England’s suburbs and much more.
Continue readingIHBC’s President Rebecca Thompson, Director of Property for St Paul’s Cathedral, will speak on ‘Historic and Heritage Places and Assets’ on 20 May at the Leeds UKREiiF 2025’, a forum dedicated to unlocking investment and driving regeneration and development across the UK.
Continue readingThe IHBC has issued its regular reminder to our voting members (Full, Associate and Retired) that proxy voting in advance of our Annual General meetings (AGM) is strongly encouraged, not least to minimise costs, ensure quorum and make the best use of time.
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