The new issue of the IHBC’s members’ journal, Context, No. 181, alongside themed and special features includes a wide range of regular articles, with the current spotlight on IHBC’s past-Chair James Caird’s journey from the ‘The Upper Ten Thousand’ to ‘women’s artistic and personal freedom’.
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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 next free online Council CPD, exclusive to all IHBC members, will take place on 24 March as a blended event from London’s Charterhouse, welcoming our Vice President Rebecca Thompson as next President, thanking Mike Brown as he takes the role of Immediate Past President, plus top-notch CPD (Asset Management), all in our first blended Council.
Continue readingChallenges ahead: collecting, managing, integrating and sharing comprehensible findings on actual performance from cradle to grave.
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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 church body for a main professional adviser with conservation accreditation, to 07/02.
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The only surviving Art Deco cinema in Northern Ireland is undergoing a major refurbishment to mark its 90th anniversary, reports RTE.
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The World Monuments Fund is celebrating 60 years of heritage conservation around the globe as, since 1965, it has been dedicated to preserving the world’s heritage.
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A new Nature Restoration Fund will accelerate infrastructure projects and enable developers to meet their environmental obligations faster, government reports.
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Enabling a Natural Capital Approach (ENCA) offers government guidance providing information and resources for Natural Capital.
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Scottish Government guidance to assist with engagement activities in the preparation of local development plans is part of measures introduced by the Planning (Scotland) Act 2019 to put community voices at the heart of the planning system in Scotland.
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The Housing Minister Matthew Pennycook has written to the President of the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) to convey a clear message on behalf of government to professional planners.
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Humanise is asking for help to shine a light on the way so many places have become characterless and inhuman… smothered by deadening buildings, and seeks a collection of boring buildings from all over the world, defined by contributors.
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IHBC’s next free online Council CPD, exclusive to all IHBC members, will take place on 24 March as a blended event from London’s Charterhouse, welcoming our Vice President Rebecca Thompson as next President, thanking Mike Brown as he takes the role of Immediate Past President, plus top-notch CPD (Asset Management), all in our first blended Council.
Continue readingThe 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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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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New technical research and findings on ‘Culture and Heritage Capital: Monetising the impact of culture and heritage on health and wellbeing’ have been added to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Culture and Heritage Capital (CHC) Evidence Bank.
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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 IHBCon free places and more for members at the London Listed Property Show, Olympia, 31 Jan/01 Feb.
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With a tower dating back almost to the Norman conquest and the majority of the church standing since the 13th century (13C), a reordering and renovation project at All Saints Winterton in Lincolnshire was going to be a major project, reports The Church of England (CoE).
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The public spending watchdog the National Audit Office (NAO) estimates that the government’s maintenance backlog is at least £49 Bn and it will need to consider the best way to manage its assets alongside its long-term investment plans, in addition to the cost of ongoing maintenance, to bring property condition to a satisfactory level.
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The 2031 cut-off date for recording historic rights of way is to be removed.
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The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Jobs Salary Report provides the average salaries for those who work in RIBA Chartered Practices, by region and practice size.
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A new strategic framework for heritage science in the UK has been developed by the National Heritage Science Forum for the period 2024-2027.
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The Architectural Heritage Fund(AHF) has reported on Government awards from the final round of its Community Ownership Fund (COF) for 15 AHF-supported projects.
Continue readingThe family home where rock band AC/DC was founded has been mistakenly demolished by a property developer in Australia.
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