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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 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
- IHBC’s ‘Members with benefits’: Free entry to Listed Property Show, Malvern, 10-11/10… just email Charlie, or bring your IHBC business card! 07/10/2025
- IHBC launches FREE ‘Events Calendar’ submission form – with potential for inclusion in our celebrated monthly CPD Circular 07/10/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Research’ Signpost ‘The Big Think’ UK Heritage Pulse update – Sector-wide collaboration and relevance 07/10/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Professional’ Signpost looks back: Why Foxglove and Global Action Plan are opposing the Woodlands data centre 07/10/2025
- IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’: BD on regen in Newcastle – UK Design Capital of the Year & IHBC 2026 School Venue 07/10/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Victorian engine found in attic of former Scots jail ‘one of three in world’ 07/10/2025
- 2024 ICOMOS Annual Report now available 07/10/2025
- C20 welcomes listing of Sir David Chipperfield’s first UK building (1987-89), 1 Cobham Mews Studios in Camden 07/10/2025
- From the Carbon Trust’s Insight Series: New draft Net Zero Standard version 2.0, and ‘What it means for corporates’ 07/10/2025
- Adults’ People and Nature Survey Results Released 07/10/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Climate Heritage Network ‘Refresher on the Global Call to Put Culture at the heart of Climate Action’ 07/10/2025
- Presidential invite to IHBC’s ‘members-only’ online Council Wednesday 8 October, 4.30pm, on ‘Heritage Skills & the Conservation Professional’, Charter explorations & more 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 joint project and HESPR ‘Pick’: ‘Guidelines for Cultural Heritage Impact Assessment – Request for Expressions of Interest for a Writer’, closing 2 Feb 2018
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IHBC Marsh Awards 2018 Update: President calls for entries – closing 28 February
The IHBC’s Marsh Awards, developed in partnership with the Marsh Christian Trust, celebrates retired IHBC members and successful learners in heritage practice, with prizes that include £500 and a free place at the IHBC’s Annual School, while the IHBC’s President has written to members to call for more entries and to remind them of a closing date of 28 February 2018 for the current round.
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The European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018 takes off, with IHBC’s 2018 Annual School in Belfast too
The celebrations for the 2018 European Year of Cultural Heritage (EYCH) kicked off at the European Culture Forum in Milan recently, helping put the spotlight on Europe’s wealth of cultural heritage, showcasing its role in fostering a shared sense of identity and building the future of Europe, while the IHBC’s 2018 School in Belfast, in June, is to be a celebrated part of that international programme.
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IHBC welcomes CCS ‘Spotlight on…women in construction’ campaign
The IHBC has welcomed the Considerate Constructors Scheme (CCS) initiative on an industry survey that has revealed that more needs to be done to change perceptions and encourage more women into construction.
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Charity put in charge of Coventry’s historic assets
Coventry will hand the management of its heritage over to a charity the Historic Coventry Trust (HCT) in the first arrangement of its kind in a British city.
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Clandon Park: Allies and Morrison chosen to rebuild the NT’s fire-hit mansion
Allies and Morrison architects has been selected to rebuild the National Trust’s (NT) Clandon Park, the 18th Century mansion destroyed by fire in 2015.
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Coventry to host UK City of Culture 2021
Coventry will host the prestigious title of UK City of Culture 2021, Arts Minister John Glen has announced.
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BBC: Margam Country Park, Wales – Turbine restoration to power estate
A historical turbine house which was one of the first in the UK to power a home will be restored to once again provide electricity to Margam County Park estate, located between Swansea and Cardiff, reports the BBC.
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National Trust announces new Director-General Hilary McGrady, currently Chief Operating Officer
Hilary McGrady will officially take over on 12 March, next year as Director General of the National trust (NT), succeeding Helen Ghosh who announced earlier this year that she was stepping down to take up a new position.
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Giant box planned to save NTS’ ‘rotting’ Helensburgh’s Mackintosh Hill House
A plan to rescue Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s masterpiece – The Hill House in Helensburgh – by enclosing it in a huge see-through structure has been unveiled by the National Trust for Scotland (NTS).
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IHBC welcomes Carole Souter CBE as Gus Astley Student Award judge for 2017: Master of St Cross College, Oxford and past CE of HLF
The IHBC is delighted to welcome Carole Souter CBE as the judge for the 2017 IHBC Gus Astley Student Awards, now Master of St Cross College, Oxford and former Chief Executive (CE) of the National Heritage Memorial Fund and Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF).
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New Context out: ‘Floorscape –The heritage at our feet’ and much more, from Listing’s 70th anniversary to Student Awards
The latest edition of the IHBC’s membership journal Context is now out, themed around traditional paving and its contribution to our experience of places, with Robert Huxford of the Urban Design Group (UDG) as guest commissioning editor for the theme, and with articles also ranging from Listing’s 70th anniversary to IHBC Student Award-winning research.
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IHBC South Branch CPD on church alterations: ‘NEW ORDER – DIVINE INTERVENTION’; 19 Jan, Booking closes 12 Jan
IHBC South Branch, in association with the Diocese of Winchester, is offering another premium CPD experience on Friday 19 January, at All Saints Church, The Bury, Odiham, Hampshire, exploring alterations and changes to protected churches – ‘NEW ORDER – DIVINE INTERVENTION’ – and a MUST for conservation practitioners, Local Authority Conservation staff, DAC Members and Church representatives, with booking closing 12 January and reduced rates for IHBC members of £30.
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IHBC HESPR’s weekly top weekly pick from c.£4M+ costed work: Dacorum BC’s HE services, valued £60-120k, closing 10/01
The IHBC’s heritage business list, HESPR – the Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition scheme – offers its members weekly ‘News and Tender Alert’ emails, with costed opportunities worth more than £177,000 this week, while the IHBC Director’s current top pick for NewsBlog readers features a call from Dacorum Borough Council (BC) for the provision of Historic Environment Consultancy Services, valued at £60,000-120,000 and closing 11/01.
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DBW features Steven Robb on Geddes and ‘conservative surgery’ in Edinburgh: IHBC’s ‘Conservation and Urbanism’ Context
Recently featured on the Designing Buildings Wiki (DBW) email alert – sent to nearly 8000 registered users – is Steven Robb’s article on ‘Conservative surgery in Edinburgh’, from IHBC’s Context special issue on ‘Conservation and urbanism’.
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Planning company fined for wilfully obstructing council officers
Brentwood Borough Council (BC) has reported that a planning company, Smart Planning , and its representative, have been given substantial fines for wilfully obstructing council officers in the course of their work, as Colchester Magistrates Court praised local authority officers for offering ‘consistent, professional and credible’ evidence.
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New BSI standard out: BS EN 16883:2017 ‘Guidelines for improving the energy performance of historic buildings’
BSI has launched Conservation of cultural heritage. Guidelines for improving the energy performance of historic buildings.
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Celebrating the anniversary of female suffrage with the National Trust
In 2018 the National Trust is shining a light on the history of women to celebrate the anniversary of female suffrage. Continue reading
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Scotland’s charity watchdog is to investigate the finances of RIAS
The BBC reports that Scotland’s charity regulator OSCR has opened an investigation into the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS) following concerns raised by a number of organisations and individuals.
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Wales’ New Minister for Culture, Tourism and Sport: ‘Cadw to remain in government’
Cadw writes that Lord Dafydd Elis-Thomas AM assumed responsibility for the portfolio including the historic environment when he became Minister for Culture, Tourism and Sport at the beginning of November 2017, and in his first ministerial appearance before the National Assembly for Wales on 21 November he announced that, following careful consideration of a business case examining future governance options, the Welsh Government’s Historic Environment Service (Cadw) would remain part of government. Continue reading
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Eleven bids for £15m Northern Cultural Regeneration Fund
Eleven towns and cities from across Northern England have bid for a share of a new £15 million fund to support major culture and tech capital projects and provide a legacy from the Great Exhibition of the North.
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Futurism from County Life: Children’s visions of the perfect future house, as rendered by a professional architect
Country Life reports in ten imaginative children’s ideas for houses of the future that have been turned into modern 3D models to get a sense of what they’d really be like!
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IHBC Course Connection Day 2017: Update and review
The 2017 IHBC’s Course Connection Day was held in Birmingham on 23 November, with students representing the full diversity of heritage related courses across the UK and Ireland enjoying an expenses –paid opportunity to learn more about built and historic environment conservation and the resources and support available from the IHBC.
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IHBC on ‘Urgent’: Do IHBC’s ‘5 minute member survey’ to help our future and maybe win a free copy of BS 7913
Many IHBC members have already completed this short survey to influence the future direction of the Institute but there are still many more who can still offer their thoughts on the work of their institute and their experience of it.
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Reminder: Can IHBC members and colleagues help HE find more listed buildings used as mosques?
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