Promoting equity, diversity and inclusion in volunteering

Posted on 25/02/2025 by IHBC

New research commissioned by the government explores the effectiveness of different interventions and practices in equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) across a range of different sized volunteer-involving organisations (VIOs), with an emphasis on smaller organisations.

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NCT: Church architecture awards winners 2024 announced

Posted on 25/02/2025 by IHBC

image for illustration: St James the Great, Aslackby, near Sleaford, Lincolnshire by Acabashi – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Commons Wikimedia

The National Churches Trust has announced the winners of the church architecture awards 2024.

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New Director for the Georgian Group: Dr Anya Lucas

Posted on 25/02/2025 by IHBC

The Georgian Group, the society founded in 1937 to protect and promote Georgian buildings, has appointed Dr Anya Lucas FSA as its next Director.

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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Beavers build planned dams in protected landscape area while officials still seek permits

Posted on 25/02/2025 by IHBC

image for illustration: A Beaver eating dinner By NPS Photo / Emily Mesner – NPGallery, Public Domain, Commons Wikimedia

A beaver colony in the Brdy region has gained overnight fame by building several dams in the protected landscape area, as local officials sought permits, reports Radio Prague International.

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IHBC’s Context 182 now out (Part 1): ‘Heating and ventilation’ from Sustainable heating for listed buildings to people-first retrofit, hothouses and more (& even Alec & Gus!)

Posted on 21/02/2025 by IHBC

The new issue of IHBC’s members’ journal, Context – No. 182 – examines ‘heating and ventilation’ because ‘Is anything more important to historic building conservation…’, and that’s just the start of our CPD journey that includes Alec Clifton-Taylor, Gus Astley and more!

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Join IHBC’s online Council on 24 March, 1.15pm on, for Welcomes (future President, Rebecca Thompson, VPs etc.); Thanks (President Mike Brown, & volunteers), and practice-led CPD on managing London’s mixed-use historic Charterhouse estate

Posted on 21/02/2025 by IHBC

IHBC’s next free online Council and CPD, exclusive to all IHBC members, opens on 24 March at 1.15pm from London’s Charterhouse, offering: welcomes to our next President Rebecca Thompson; thanks to Mike Brown and others, and Charterhouse case-study insights into heritage estate planning and management, all in our first ‘blended’ Council (NB: ‘In-Person’ attendance exclusively by invitation only).

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Nominations sought for IHBC’s TWO Marsh Awards: ‘Successful Learning’ AND/OR ‘Community Contribution (Retired Members) – to 31 March 2025

Posted on 21/02/2025 by IHBC

The two IHBC Marsh Awards, developed in partnership with the Marsh Charitable Trust, celebrate ‘Community Contributions’ by retired IHBC members, as well as ‘Successful Learning’ in heritage-related skills, with £500 and free places at IHBC’s 2025 Annual School in Shrewsbury – #IHBCShrewsbury2025 – with presentations on June 13, and entries closing 31 March.

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IHBC’s IHBC’s ‘Professional’ capacity-building Signpost: England’s Pathways to Planning – Information for councils

Posted on 21/02/2025 by IHBC

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Pathways to Planning provides local planning authorities with a pipeline of talented, supported new planners , and the LGA is now able to offer councils salary bursaries to cover part or all of a graduate planner’s salary to help create new positions in their planning teams.

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IHBC’s ‘Professional’ Signpost: New research at Bennett Institute defines and measures social and cultural infrastructure

Posted on 21/02/2025 by IHBC

New research at the Bennett Institute aims to define and measure the role and value of ‘social and cultural Infrastructure’ and develop a framework that helps understand their value and role in public life.

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IHBC’s occasional ‘HESPR opportunities’ signpost: Our £8.2+M sampler ‘Director’s choice’ January issue, & benefits including free annual IHBC Jobs etc. post (transferable for goodwill too!)

Posted on 21/02/2025 by IHBC

The IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance service – emails members our ‘News and Tender Alerts’ and, for our NewsBlogs feature this week, we’re offering our occasion sample listing from January.

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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (Scottish) doorstep’: On ‘Heat in Buildings’, Government update from Climate Action Minister

Posted on 21/02/2025 by IHBC

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Scotland’s Minister for Climate Action, Alasdair Allan has sent a progress update on ‘Heat in Buildings’ to Ariane Burgess MSP, Convener of the Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee.

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A decade of cuts: Wales risks being left behind in cultural and sporting achievement

Posted on 21/02/2025 by IHBC

Wales spends less on culture than almost all European nations, a Senedd Committee report has founds.

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Nathan Baker steps down as CIfA CEO

Posted on 21/02/2025 by IHBC

A Statement from the Honorary Chair of CIfA has announced that Nathan Baker has stepped down from his role as Chief Executive Officer.

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ICOMOS-UK Heritage Photo Competition: Celebrating 60 Years Of ICOMOS, on Heritage at Risk: A Global Perspective’, to 28/02

Posted on 21/02/2025 by IHBC

The 2025 ICOMOS-UK photography competition celebrates built heritage and living heritage traditions around the world, as seen by you through the lens, as well as 60 years of ICOMOS, closing 28 February!

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Government Planning Reform Working Paper seeks input on ‘Streamlining Infrastructure Planning’ & NSIPs

Posted on 21/02/2025 by IHBC

A new Government paper invites views on how the government could reform the process for consenting Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIP).

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Theatres Trust announces Theatres at Risk Register 2025

Posted on 21/02/2025 by IHBC

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Theatres Trust has published its annual register of theatres under threat of permanent closure, redevelopment, or demolition across the UK, including five council-owned theatres added to the list as pressures on local authority budgets hit home.

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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’ – UNESCO supports reconstruction of Mosul treasures

Posted on 21/02/2025 by IHBC

image for illustration: By Levi Clancy – Own work, CC0, Views around the old city of Mosul (2019)

In 2014, the IS terrorist group took control of the Iraqi city of Mosul, systematically destroying its many cultural monuments but, with help from UNESCO, some historic buildings are now opening after reconstruction.

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Join IHBC’s online Council on 24 March, 1.15pm on, for Welcomes (future President, Rebecca Thompson, VPs etc.); Thanks (President Mike Brown, & volunteers), and practice-led CPD on managing London’s mixed-use historic Charterhouse estate

Posted on 18/02/2025 by IHBC

IHBC’s next free online Council and CPD, exclusive to all IHBC members, opens on 24 March at 1.15pm from London’s Charterhouse, offering: welcomes to our next President Rebecca Thompson; thanks to Mike Brown and others, and Charterhouse case-study insights into heritage estate planning and management, all in our first ‘blended’ Council (NB: ‘In-Person’ attendance exclusively by invitation only).

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IHBC issues formal notice for 2025 AGM: 13 May 2025, 5.30pm for 6pm start, online

Posted on 18/02/2025 by IHBC

IHBC Chair David McDonald has written to all members of the IHBC with the date of and guidance on the 2025 AGM, to take place online on Tuesday 13 May 2024 at 6pm, with the full programme starting at 5.30pm’, so if you have not received your notice, check your email trash first, and contact IHBC Company Secretary Lydia Porter at admin@ihbc.org.uk as needed.

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Nominations sought for IHBC’s TWO Marsh Awards: ‘Successful Learning’ AND/OR ‘Community Contribution (Retired Members) – to 31 March 2025

Posted on 18/02/2025 by IHBC

The two IHBC Marsh Awards, developed in partnership with the Marsh Charitable Trust, celebrate ‘Community Contributions’ by retired IHBC members, as well as ‘Successful Learning’ in heritage-related skills, with £500 and free places at IHBC’s 2025 Annual School in Shrewsbury – #IHBCShrewsbury2025 – with presentations on June 13, and entries closing 31 March.

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IHBC’s 2025 AGM is coming 13 May: To take your membership to a new level, as Trustee, be sure to · Check our guidance · Explore options with us · Sort your CPD · Submit your case.

Posted on 18/02/2025 by IHBC

If you are interested in a voluntary role as an Trustee you can explore duties and obligations not only through our extensive online guidance, but also ‘in real life’ by contacting a trustee post-holder – direct or through your Branch – or any at our National Office (e.g. Administrator, Lydia Porter at admin@ihbc.org.uk or Director, Seán O’Reilly at director@ihbc.org.uk).

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IHBC Research Signpost: Centre for Cultural Value on ‘Research Digest Environmental Heritage and Place’ and more

Posted on 18/02/2025 by IHBC

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The Centre for Cultural Value is building a shared understanding of the differences that arts, culture, heritage and screen make to people’s lives and to society, including with its Research Digests, ‘based on a rapid assessment of published literature to present a ‘snapshot’’.

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IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’: Barbican Renewal programme seeks feedback

Posted on 18/02/2025 by IHBC

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 the Barbican Renewal programme calling for feedback.

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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Govt opts not to list Manchester’s Hotspur Press

Posted on 18/02/2025 by IHBC

image for illustration: Percy Brothers Ltd – the Hotspur Press by Stephen Craven, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

It has been decided that the former mill and printing press on Manchester’s Gloucester Street is not worthy of protected status, paving the way for its redevelopment into a 37-storey student tower, reports Place North West.

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Heritage Treasures Day: Funding brings new hope for the future of 3 AHF-supported historic gems, from Cranleigh to S. Yorkshire

Posted on 18/02/2025 by IHBC

image for illustration from AHF newsletter : The exterior of Cranleigh Cottage Hospital. Photo courtesy of Cranleigh Heritage Trust CIO.

Heritage Treasures Day, reports the Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF), spotlights three AHF-supported projects in England that have also just been awarded grant funding from The National Lottery Heritage Fund.

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