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- Presidential invite to IHBC’s ‘members-only’ online Council Wednesday 8 October, 4.30pm, on ‘Heritage Skills & the Conservation Professional’, Charter explorations & more 03/10/2025
- IHBC’s October ‘CPD Circular’: Accessible, cost-conscious learning, events & resources, with Branch events, CPD Partnerships, Lime, Lutyens & more 03/10/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Members with benefits’: Free entry to Listed Property Show, Malvern, 10-11/10… just email Charlie, or bring your IHBC business card! 03/10/2025
- 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 03/10/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Members with benefits’: West Dean’s 10% discount on specialist Conservation courses for IHBC members (all categories) 03/10/2025
- IHBC’s Professional Signpost: Historic Rochester Grade II listed bridge undergoes detailed principal inspection 03/10/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Director’s pick’ from HESPR’s £87.5K+ weekly works: Social landlord seeks affordable housing services, to 10/10, £84K 03/10/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Decision on plan for Glasgow’s iconic Barrowlands sign 03/10/2025
- Housing Secretary issues ‘call to arms’ to ‘build, baby, build’ 03/10/2025
- Parliamentary Inquiry: ‘The Environment in Focus’, open to suggestions to 10 Oct 03/10/2025
- Surge in 18–25-year-old new members as National Trust annual report reveals growth of 39% 03/10/2025
- Edinburgh’s Cockburn Association welcomes new Director, Rowan Brown 03/10/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Europa Nostra on ‘European Cultural Heritage Summit 2025’, Brussels 12-15 Oct – ‘Heritage Matters for Europe 03/10/2025
- UPDATE: IHBC’s ‘members-only’ online Council features ‘Heritage Skills & the Conservation Professional’, Charter explorations and impacts, & much more: Book now for 8 October, from 4.30pm 01/10/2025
- Context 184: IHBC’s accessible CPD for Conservation Professionals – A first take on ‘Leaders of conservation thought…’ Ruskin & Morris, Lord Kennet, John Ashurst and much more 01/10/2025
- 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 01/10/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Members with benefits’: Free entry to Listed Property Show, Malvern, 10-11/09… just email Charlie, or bring your IHBC business card! 01/10/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Research’ signpost: UCL reports on ‘Value of Arts and Culture’, investment, returns and more 01/10/2025
- IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’: Double up with DB on IHBC Gus Astley Student Awards closing 30/09 and IHBC free access to LPOC at Malvern, 10/11 Oct 01/10/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Kinloch Castle on the Isle of Rum put up for sale by NatureScot 01/10/2025
- Preliminary market engagement notice for UEA Ziggurats Design Competition: ‘for the transformation & renewal of… Grade II*-listed ziggurats’ 01/10/2025
- Why we’re evolving the RTPI brand: A New RTPI is coming- clearer stronger, more connected 01/10/2025
- Scotland’s The Places of Worship (POWF) Newsletter – Would you like to contribute to a blog? 01/10/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: URBACT on ‘We art the cities’ – Six European cities on cultural regeneration 01/10/2025
- Government ‘Pride in Place’ powers: Communities to seize control over high streets and restore pride 01/10/2025
BEFS’ update on campaign to improve property maintenance and repair in Scotland
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BREEAM Wiki joins IHBC on DBW: Advancing knowledge sharing and collaborative solutions… for BRE sustainability tools
BREEAM Wiki has become part of the widely-used Designing Buildings Wiki (DBW), with the object of ‘advancing knowledge sharing and collaborative solutions for the BRE family of sustainability tools.’
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COTAC publishes 2017 ‘BIM for Heritage’ conference abstracts etc: ‘Stepping into the Future with the Past’
COTAC has published material from its 2017 conference – BIM for Heritage: ‘Stepping into the Future with the Past,’ on its cotac.global website.
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New GCHT publication ‘Glasgow’s Historic Built Environment: A Snapshot’
Glasgow City Heritage Trust (GCHT) has published a brief survey of heritage places and perceptions there , entitled ‘Glasgow’s Historic Built Environment: A Snapshot’, as a baseline of information to provoke ongoing discussions about heritage and the city.
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UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders Fellowships scheme
Early career researchers in Arts and Humanities are being encouraged to make the most of a ‘transformational opportunity’ for funding that is being offered through UK Research and Innovation, with the submission deadline for the first call of 3 July 2018, and a mandatory Expression of Interest required by 7 June.
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WMF Knoll Modernism prize: Nominations open to raise awareness of modern preservation successes – closing 15 June
With the support of founding sponsor Knoll, World Monuments Fund(WMF) launched the World Monuments Fund/Knoll Modernism Prize to raise awareness about modern preservation success stories, and nominations are now being accepted for outstanding and innovative design solutions that save modern icons, with a closing date of 15 June.
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Stoke-on-Trent house ’30in too tall’ risks demolition
The BBC has reported on how a family in Stoke-on-Trent has been told to tear down their new home or spend £200,000 on a new roof after it was found to be 30 inches (76cm) too tall.
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IHBC’s new member ELetter out: Membership highs (2,600+) and other timely updates
The IHBC’s current member ELetter is out, updating members (and others) on progress following IHBC board meetings in February and April, reporting a new membership high of 2600+ alongside other updates such as our data protection plans.
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#saveourheritage: IHBC welcomes Prospect report on future of heritage – ‘Heritage: cold climate to ice age’
The IHBC has welcomed Prospect’s new report – Heritage: cold climate to ice age – which highlights the concerns of Prospect members after a decade of funding cuts to the heritage sector and the new uncertainty created by Brexit.
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IHBC’s South Branch goes ‘Naval Gazing’ for CPD in Portsmouth, 18 May
Portsmouth Historic Dockyards is the venue and focus for the next IHBC South Branch CPD event, with its ‘Naval Gazing Day’, with a programme of fascinating talks and expert tours in and around the Mary Rose Museum, with costs at £40 for members and £60 for non-members, including lunch.
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IHBC HESPR’s top pick from c.£980K+ costed work this week: Cumbria CC seeks a Conservation Management Plan for scheduled site at Warton Crag, closing 14/05
The IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – the Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition scheme – offers members weekly ‘News and Tender Alert’ emails, with costed opportunities worth some £980K+ this week, with the IHBC Director’s top pick for NewsBlog readers this week featuring the Cumbria County Council (CC) call for a consultant for a Conservation Management Plan (CMP) for the scheduled monument/site on Warton Crag, Warton, Lancashire, closing 14 May.
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IHBC CPD boost in Context’s Isle of Man issue: ‘The TT Races and the landscape’
Matthew Richardson explores ‘The TT Races and the landscape’ in his article in Context 153, looking at the symbiotic relationship that has developed over the past 111 years between the TT Races and the island’s physical landscape, in ways that are perhaps unique among the world’s sporting events.
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IHBC’s ‘Opinion’ signpost to BEFS: ‘In the Footsteps of Geddes’ – engaging young people with place & heritage
In an opinion piece for BEFS, Scotland’s link body for built environment bodies, Wojciech Borowski, Project Coordinator at Planning Aid Scotland (PAS), reflects on the two-year Heritage Lottery funded youth project titled ‘In the Footsteps of Geddes’, focussed on engaging young people with place & heritage.
image PAS via BEFS website
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Minister: England’s newly formed Heritage Council meets up
England’s newly formed Heritage Council, which includes select key players in the heritage sector, has met for the first time, as explained by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DDCMS) and Minister Michael Ellis MP.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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CrowdJustice platform pioneered to ‘crowdfund’ coalition of opposition to Edinburgh’s Old Royal High School hotel plans
Plans for a new hotel on the site of Edinburgh’s Old Royal High School, on iconic Calton Hill, are being opposed by the city and national institutions, but with a new appeal in place following two refusals a coalition of heritage bodies opposing the plans need more funds, so the Cockburn Association –Edinburgh’s Civic Trust – is exploring a new platform to secure additional crowdfunded resources, ‘CrowdJustice’.
image: Calton Hill and Old Royal High School, Edinburgh, Courtesy Cockburn Association
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Applications open for 2019 Churchill Fellowships, including ‘Rural living’ and ‘… conservation & sustainable living’ – closing 18/09
The Winston Churchill Memorial Trust (WCMT) is now open to Churchill Fellowship applications for travel in 2019, with three new award categories (including Rural living) among the 12 on offer – including Environment, conservation & sustainable living – and with the deadline for applications of 18 September 2018.
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120,000 children to benefit from HE’s £1.6M Heritage Schools programme, thanks to HLF
Some 120,000 school children to benefit from £1.6 million investment to continue Historic England’s (HE) award winning Heritage Schools programme for the next two years so children can create films and exhibitions and campaign for war memorials, teachers can be supported to embed local heritage in the curriculum and HE provide resources for teachers.
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Coursework into cash, courtesy IHBC – 2018 IHBC Student Award closes 31 July: £500+ of prizes due Nottingham, June 2019
The IHBC’s Annual Gus Astley Student Award for 2018 closes on 31 July, so if you have ANY heritage or existing built environment related coursework from ANY UK taught course – under-graduate or post-graduate, from 2017 OR 2108 – be sure to submit it online and on time to secure your chance of receiving a prize at the IHBC’s Annual School in Nottingham in July 2019, all courtesy IHBC.
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IHBC’s fourth NewsBlog Branches Update: Explore Branch CPD events across the UK
This 4th issue of IHBC Branches Update is offering another great variety of events, offering local CPD across the UK open to IHBC members and non-members!
Places are filling fast for our 2018 Annual School in Belfast which offers some of the best heritage learning and CPD around – see details below (June section).
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IHBC CPD boost in Context: The ‘pattern of building’ in Manx vernacular was shaped by local materials, writes Patricia Tutt
Patricia Tutt’s recent Context article, ‘A pattern of building’, explores how the natural occurring building materials of the Isle of Man – an abundance of stone and the paucity of timber – shaped the development of a vernacular architecture and the rise of more sophisticated building skills.
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IHBC’s ‘Heritage (and industry) from the doorstep’: London’s St Paul’s bells returning to Loughborough after 140 years… for a clean-up
Twelve bells that last rang out for traditional new year peal from St Paul’s Cathedral are now being moved for restoration to where they were originally cast in 1878, at the Grade II* Listed John Taylor & Co bellfoundry in Loughborough, now the last remaining major bellfoundry in Britain and on the Historic England Heritage At Risk Register, writes the Leicester Mercury.
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Historic England Angel Awards 2018 open
Historic England Angel Awards, started by Andrew Lloyd Webber, are open for applications and this year, as Wales joins England, Scotland and Northern Ireland to hold its own Angel awards this year, an overall winner will be chosen from the winners of the Angel Awards held across the UK.
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BRE launches online self-assessment tool for ethical labour sourcing
Building Research Establishment (BRE) has launched the Online Ethical Labour Sourcing standard (BES 6002) developed to provide a framework for businesses to self-assess to better understand their corporate governance profile including human rights responsibilities.
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England’s new trustees will get a welcome pack from the Charity Commission
Every new trustee in England will now receive a welcome pack on being a trustee from the Charity Commission.
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New Director for the Scottish Civic Trust
The Scottish Civic Trust (SCT) has announced that its new Director is Dr Susan O’Connor, latterly Senior Projects Advisor for Scotland with the Princes Regeneration Trust.
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