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- IHBC’s December ‘CPD Circular’ now out: Accessible, cost-conscious learning, events & resources, with Branch & National AGMs, Surgeries, CPD Partnerships & more 28/11/2025
- IHBC Supporter Surgery for aspiring Affiliates: Have you registered yet? 11 December, 1pm (IHBC CPD too!) 28/11/2025
- IHBC’s 2025 Parliamentary Briefing launches research-led ‘5 Commitments to Help Heritage Skills in Conservation’… From Crafts in Crisis to Rubbish in Retrofit 28/11/2025
- IHBC welcomes new joint CEOs at Historic England to post 28/11/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Professional’ & ‘Management ‘ Signpost: DB’s ‘brief outline of the Planning and Infrastructure Bill’, with terms, and amendments 28/11/2025
- IHBC Director’s pick from HESPR’s £2.4M+ of weekly works: BC seeks review of Conservation Areas, to £50K 28/11/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Two companies fined total of £190k for unauthorised Grade I listed building works following BNES council prosecution 28/11/2025
- Government consultation: ‘Reforms to the statutory consultee system’, to 13/01/2026 28/11/2025
- Gardens Trust on ‘Government Consultation on Removal of the Gardens Trust as a Statutory Consultee’ 28/11/2025
- NLHF launches Future Heritage Leadership Programme, open to 10/12, starting March 2026 28/11/2025
- As UK City of Culture 2029 opens, new ‘UK Town of Culture’ competition – to shine a spotlight on towns – opens soon too 28/11/2025
- UK Parliamentary Cttee. launches International Climate Policy Inquiry, ‘on UK climate policy and finance’, seeking evidence, to 7/01/2026 28/11/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: European Heritage Excellence Day 2025 spotlights innovation, creativity and community engagement 28/11/2025
- PAS 28/11/2025
- Career conscious & in conservation? IHBC’s ‘Jobs etc.’ services spans disciplines, levels & sectors, linked by interdisciplinary conservation practice standards delivering public benefit 25/11/2025
- IHBC’s 2025 Parliamentary Briefing launches research-led ‘5 Commitments to Help Heritage Skills in Conservation’… From Crafts in Crisis to Rubbish in Retrofit 25/11/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Evaluation’ Signpost from Sheehan Quirke via Open Culture: ‘How did the world get so ugly?’ 25/11/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (duplicate) doorstep’: Plans for first Iron Age broch ‘in 2000 years’ approved for Highlands 25/11/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (Lottery) doorstep’: Historic Birnbeck pier saved as surprise funding announced from NLHF 25/11/2025
- ‘Natural England’s Strategy: Recovering Nature for Growth, Health and Security’ – with ‘nature as essential to sustaining growth and a healthy society’ 25/11/2025
- HE & ACE issue first parts of suite of guidance, templates and factsheets etc. 25/11/2025
- Government’s Pride in Place: Strategy update 25/11/2025
- Winners of the Georgian Group Architectural Awards announced! 25/11/2025
- Joining the dots: A single EDI portal for the sector 25/11/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Worker dies after partial collapse of medieval tower in Rome 25/11/2025
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Nominations to Victorian Society’s Top 10 Endangered Buildings list 2025 open, as ‘President Griff’ urges nominations
image for illustration: The Victorian Society The Victorian Society is asking the public to nominate threatened Victorian and Edwardian buildings for their list of Top 10 Endangered Buildings to be announced in 2025.
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RFACT: Building Beauty Awards… ‘Have you seen or designed a beautiful new building to nominate for 2025?’
image for illustration: Tintagel new bridge by Kmtextor, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons The Royal Fine Art Commission Trust (RFACT) will be inviting entries from Spring 2025 for projects completed since the start of 2024 for the Building … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage form the global doorstep’: APSARA National Authority to restore the Tro Moung Temple
image for illustration: Angkor Thom by Marcin Konsek / Wikimedia Commons The APSARA National Authority is undertaking an important restoration project for the Tro Moung Temple, located to the west of the Takav gate of Angkor Thom.
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IHBC’s HESPR member Dyfi Architecture helps Glyn Cywarch win Historic Houses Restoration Award 2024
image for illustration: Dyfi Architecture Glyn Cywarch, in Gwynedd, Wales, has been crowned winner of the Historic Houses Restoration Award 2024, while owner Lord Harlech said IHBC HESPR member ‘Dyfi Architecture provided invaluable guidance and expertise to see the project … Continue reading
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New IHBC MATE Accreditation support dates out: Sign up ASAP for FREE sector-specific sessions, piloting simpler forms – 9/12 (Churches etc.), 11/12 (LAs) or 13/12 (Private sector)
As part of the IHBC’s evolving arrangements for our Membership Accreditation Training Events (MATE), advising on applications, three pilot online support sessions are planned for December, all free and each targeting specific sectors, with an open-access session to come in … Continue reading
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Don’t forget: IHBC’s HESPR-linked service promotion is now even more accessible to clients when using our map-based search
IHBC members, colleagues and client bodies can now find the office locations of HESPR members – IHBC’s Historic Environment Service Provider Recognition (HESPR) scheme – using our new map-based facility. image: Google Maps
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IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’: BD features IHBC HESPR member Purcell’s project appointment in London
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 features Building Design online on Purcell – and IHBC HESPR COMPANY – with … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Volunteers work to transform 100-year-old ‘hidden’ building into bothy
image for illustration: Fiona Newton Volunteers are helping transform a 100-year-old ‘hidden’ building – named Druimnashallag and located southeast of Oban – into a bothy, reports STV News.
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HES Consultation for HES’ corporate plan 2025-28 launched, to 3 January 2025
Historic Environment Scotland’s (HES) consultation on a new corporate plan for 2025-28 closes on 3 January 2025.
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New IHBC MATE Accreditation support dates out: Sign up ASAP for FREE sector-specific sessions, piloting simpler forms – 9/12 (Churches etc.), 11/12 (LAs) or 13/12 (Private sector)
As part of the IHBC’s evolving arrangements for our Membership Accreditation Training Events (MATE), advising on applications, three pilot online support sessions are planned for December, all free and each targeting specific sectors, with an open-access session to come in … Continue reading
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IHBC ‘Practice & Finance’ Signpost: ‘Hastings printworks gets new lease of life’, from RIBA Journal
image for illustration: Former Sussex Express Building (2010) by Oast House Archive, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons IF_DO has transformed a former newspaper printworks into a community building for social enterprise Hastings Commons.
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IHBC’s ‘Director’s pick’ from HESPR’s £480K+ of weekly works: BC seeks surveyor for listed project, 20/11 and valued at £30K
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 Borough Council (BC) for … Continue reading
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Historic England issues Heritage at Risk Register 2024
image for illustration: Hurst Castle by Oast House Archive, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons Historic England has published its Heritage at Risk Register 2024, which offers an annual snapshot of the health of England’s valued historic buildings and places.
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CHN’s Global ‘Call To Action’ update
As COP29 kicks off in Baku, Climate Heritage Network (CHN) is sharing some of its news from the campaign.
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Heritage Alliance’ Heritage Heroes 2024: Nominations Open to 1/12
The Heritage Alliance (THA) Heritage Heroes Awards shine a spotlight on the extraordinary individuals and organisations making an outstanding contribution to our heritage sector.
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Joseph Rykwert (1926-2024): RIBA President Muyiwa Oki pays tribute to renowned authority on architecture and 2014 Royal Gold Medallist
image for illustration: Joseph Rykwert by Pawe? Mazur, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsRIBA President Muyiwa Oki has paid tribute to Joseph Rykwert (1926-2024), renowned authority on architecture, architectural history and the RIBA’s 2014 Royal Gold Medallist.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (Global) doorstep’: Tiny Trevi Fountain stand-in pool…‘The saddest thing I’ve seen in Italy’
image for illustration: Wilfredo Rafael Rodriguez Hernandez, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons When the city of Rome constructed what looks like a backyard swimming pool in front of the famous Trevi Fountain for tourists to toss their coins into while the … Continue reading
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IHBC’s ‘Special Thanks’ to Student Award entrants for 2024, with record numbers seeking prizes (to £500) & places at #IHBCShrewsbury2025, via guest judge Nathan Baker, CIfA CE
The IHBC has received a record 50+ submissions to our 2024 Student Awards, all hoping guest judge, Nathan Baker – new Chief Executive (CE) at the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists (CIfA) – will choose them for the coveted and certificated … Continue reading
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IHBC’s ‘Practice’ Signpost: ICOMOS-UK Heritage Photography Competition, celebrating 60 Years Of ICOMOS, to 30/11
ICOMOS-UK has launched a photography competition as a celebration of built heritage and living heritage traditions around the world, as seen by you through the lens, closing 30 November!
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Scot seeks museum to house big brick collection
image for illustration Mark Cranston started the hobby over a decade ago when he was looking for a brick as a doorstop for his garden shed, and he has a collection of over 4,000 and needs to find them a … Continue reading
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Future of theatres unclear amid prolonged RAAC closures
image for illustration: Open Government Licence v3.0 Four theatres that closed in 2023 because of RAAC concerns still have no reopening date announced, while four other venues are not expected to open until at least 2025.
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Help SAVE Britain’s Heritage, with its 4-minute survey to plan for its 50th anniversary
SAVE Britain’s Heritage is conducting a 4-minute survey to assist with the planning of its programme of activities to celebrate turning 50 years old in 2025
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National Trust: Cultural Heritage Magazine (autumn/winter) now out, and seeks feedback
The National Trust has posted Issue 5 of its twice-yearly Cultural Heritage Magazine.
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IHBC’s November ‘CPD Circular’: For cost-conscious learning, sector awards, calls and much more (including a CMP query!), with a simpler format too
IHBC’s new CPD Circular offers our current listing of accessible and cost-effective Continuing Professional Development (CPD) opportunities for historic and built environment conservation professionals and their networks, now with an even simpler format, and including the usual range of Branch … Continue reading
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IHBC ‘Research, Records & Analysis’ Signpost: The new ‘Arches for HERs’ Demo site, from the Getty Conservation Institute via HE
image for illustration: Peter Badcock A new ‘Demo’ website and resource ‘Arches for HERs’ – sponsored by Getty Conservation Institute via Historic England – shows how organisations responsible for historic environment records (HER) management can benefit from its powerful features … Continue reading
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