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- Career conscious & in conservation? IHBC’s ‘Jobs etc.’ reaches across disciplines, levels & sectors, from charities – led here by Scotland & CEOs – to Officers (LG) Inspectors (HE) & more 10/10/2025
- Context 184 under the spotlight: IHBC’s accessible CPD for Conservation Professionals, offers insights into ‘The world of generative AI’ 10/10/2025
- IHBC welcomes Gardens Trust report into the role of historic parks and gardens in the 21st century 10/10/2025
- IHBC joins 33 leading organisations calling for £6.8M in urgent funding to support Planning Schools 10/10/2025
- IHBC launches FREE ‘Events Calendar’ submission form – with potential for inclusion in our celebrated monthly CPD Circular 10/10/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Heritage from the doorstep’ (& ‘Management’ signpost): AJ on legal challenge to Barbican demolition… which ‘can proceed’ 10/10/2025
- Chancellor appoints infrastructure and planning adviser to clear path for new investments… to ‘do what it takes to get Britain building’ 10/10/2025
- Scotland’s ‘Properties and Collections Strategy: Towards Sustainable Stewardship’ consultation draft out, open to 23/01 10/10/2025
- £214m new funding for Welsh communities to improve neighbourhoods and restore pride 10/10/2025
- RICS calls for expressions of interest for pilot programmes of new professional pathways 10/10/2025
- RTPI launches five-year strategy to elevate planning: Empower 2030 10/10/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Donovan Rypkema & Heritage Strategies International seek input on ‘measuring in Arts, Culture, and Heritage’ 10/10/2025
- Presidential invite to IHBC’s ‘members-only’ online Council Wednesday 8 October, 4.30pm, on ‘Heritage Skills & the Conservation Professional’, Charter explorations & more 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
HE protects two sites to commemorate New Zealand lives lost in WWI Messines centenary
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Heritage to be at the heart of Northern Ireland’s great places
The Great Place Scheme has been launched in Northern Ireland, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), to put culture and heritage at the heart of the development of local communities.
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IHBC Membership Benefits update: ‘Money is not the barrier’ to progress in your heritage career, job or trade – from low fees to no fees…’
Money is not the barrier to support for any career, job or trade progress in the heritage sector as the low-fee IHBC also offers numerous support mechanisms to make sure that our members have the best financial support possible to advance their ambitions in any part of the heritage sector.
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Heritage places for ‘planes, trains & automobiles’… and boats too! Let your colleagues know about opportunities and challenges at the IHBC’s conference, Manchester 23 June
Let your colleagues and networks know how to find out more about some of the most challenging heritage resources of our time – the infrastructure of transport – at the IHBC’s 2017 Manchester conference, 22-24 June, or just the Day School, on 23 June!
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IHBC CPD Boost – 3D Handheld Scanning: Cataloguing the Intricacies of Oxford University
Oriel College in the UK is blessed with alumni including two Nobel laureates, one of them being a founding member of the Oxford Movement – the Catholic revival in the Church of England – but while the academic prowess of the college is not in any doubt, the structural integrity of an institution that was founded in 1326 is less certain.
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Campaign to save GII Cardigan Arms Pub in Leeds through crowd funding
A community group from Leeds, has put their plans for the Cardy, a Grade II listed pub in Burley, directly to owners Greene King, who made it very clear they are looking for the best bid and not necessarily the highest.
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£300,000 to drive up participation in culture and the arts in Wales
The Welsh Government will invest nearly £300,000 this year to create more opportunities for people to engage in culture and the arts and drive up volunteering in the sector.
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Australian National Trust Heritage Awards 2017: Winners announced
The Australian National Trust has announced the 2017 Heritage Awards winners, with categories that reflect many heritage areas familiar in the UK, and some less so.
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Esmée Fairbairn grows endowment to £1bn
The Esmée Fairbairn Foundation had a record spend of £49.1m across its grant-making and social investments, and it now has an endowment of £1bn, its 2016 accounts have revealed, which was up from £876m at the same time in 2015.
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Scientific report reveals 90% English floodplains no longer work properly
Ninety percent of floodplains across the country have been so severely changed that they no longer work properly, according to a new report, released today by Co-op Insurance and Dr Neil Entwistle and Dr George Heritage of The University of Salford.
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New urbanism? London ‘Landscraper’ for Google’s Kings Cross HQ
Google has submitted plans for ‘landscraper’ London headquarters, as construction on building that is longer than the Shard is tall is set to begin in King’s Cross in 2018.
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Reconstruction and repainting of Battersea Power Station’s iconic four chimneys almost completed
Battersea Power Station’s four chimneys are iconic structures that are instantly recognisable and a much-loved feature of London’s skyline and are being fully reconstructed with work near completion and painting underway.
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New IHBC Context: ‘Green Retrofit’
The new issue of IHBC’s member journal Context is now out and s themed around Green Retrofit and with IHBC trustee John Edwards serving as guest commissioning editor.
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Historic England awards Croydon airport Grade II* listing: So find out more about transport infrastructure at IHBC’s Manchester School, June 22-4 June
Croydon’s centre of aviation and technological heritage raises its profile as it is awarded Grade II* Listing Status, perfect timing for the IHBC’s 2017 School on historic ‘Transport Infrastructure’, 22-4 June in Manchester, and especially the Day School afternoon focussed on air transport.
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HESPR’s top pick: Redbridge, for ‘Hainault Ancient Forest — a landscape for the future’ project, closing 30 June, valued £488,500
The IHBC’s heritage business listing, HESPR – the Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition scheme – offers members weekly Bulletins that bring tender and other business opportunities together into one handy resource, while the Director’s top pick for NewsBlog readers this week features a call for suitable teams from the London Borough of Redbridge, for Design Team to lead on the Development Phase of the ‘Hainault Ancient Forest — a landscape for the future’ project’, valued at £488,500 and closing 30 June.
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England’s youngest civic society Chairman elected to Bradford CS: On need for younger members and threats from conservation service reductions
30-year-old journalist Simon Cunningham, elected chair of Bradford Civic Society – the youngest ever Chairman of an English Civic Society – says civic societies needs to attract younger members, and highlights the damage from the dramatic downturn in conservation services across England.
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NI’s ‘longest listing’ – Mourne Mountain Wall – under repair, including from lightning damage
Northern Ireland’s (NI) longest listed monument is to be repaired after years of exposure to the elements and damage due to lightning strikes.
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Bristol named ‘green capital’ of the UK
Bristol has been named the greenest city in the UK as part of research into the country’s most environmentally friendly cities.
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English Heritage’s proposals for new footbridge at Tintagel Castle submitted to Cornwall Council
English Heritage’s proposals for a new footbridge which would span the gap between the castle’s mainland and island wards, at Tintagel Castle have been submitted to Cornwall Council.
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Buy a street name: Moray Council devise new way to raise cash – ‘Asda Avenue or Tesco Terrace!
A cash-strapped Moray Council is selling off the names of streets to businesses, which, The Scotsman paper argues, may open up the possibility of addresses such as Asda Avenue or Tesco Terrace.
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Walkers’ rock piles damaging ancient features of the North York Moors
Precious prehistoric monuments erected in the North York Moors thousands of years ago are being damaged, in some cases severely, by walkers building their own stone landmarks on top of them.
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Congrats all round after IHBC’s Council+ in Brum: Policy-packed, School-focused, & exploring governance, volunteer support and international strategies
The IHBC has concluded the 5th meeting of its ‘Council+’, the institute’s UK-wide forum for volunteers’ national oversight and development, which took place in Birmingham and covered topics as diverse as current policy panels – on Rural, Green and Consultations – new volunteer structures, and the IHBC’s evolving international strategy and governance.
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IHBC CPD spotlight: Explore Vic Soc concerns on proposed reordering of GI listed church
The Victorian Society (Vic Soc), in its role as a National Amenity Society, has objected to proposals for an extensive re-ordering put forward by the Church of St Botolph, a Grade I-listed building in Longthorpe, Peterborough, and IHBC members can study the Society’s perspectives via their online posting.
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UK construction skills gap could be helped with temporary visas for EU migrants post-Brexit
Migration Watch UK has issued a paper – EU Immigration, Post-Brexit – A Comprehensive Policy – on the prospect for temporary visas for EU migrants to work in jobs at lower skill levels than presently required for admission of non-EU nationals, such as bricklaying, plumbing and construction among others, for a maximum of three years after Brexit.
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Scotland’s cutting-edge technology from HES & GSA takes medieval Rosslyn Chapel around the world
A new mobile app, launched at the Rosslyn Chapel by Historic Environment Scotland and the Glasgow School of Art (GSA), will let members of the public see the Chapel’s renowned stonework wherever they are in the world.
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