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 national authority for a landscape and historic environment (HE) management plan, to 11/04 and valued to £40K.
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The House of Commons Library has published a briefing outlining the impact of the closure of high street services in rural areas.
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Growth in jobs, tourism and regional regeneration to be ushered in by funding for major cultural projects across the UK.
Continue readingThe UK Government has opened a consultation targeting ‘people responsible for looking after ‘any place of worship that occupies a listed building’, as part of an evaluation of the Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme.
Continue readingWales to receive £100 million creating local growth and opportunities through new Plan for Neighbourhoods.
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Heritage Creates: Heritage and the Creative Industries – Heritage Alliance Insight Report, published March 2025
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The NBS ‘Best Practice Guide to Specification Writing’ guide draws upon more than 50 years of combined experience from NBS and the team at NBS Schumann in order to help you get your specifications right.
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The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)and partners have completed a groundbreaking educational programme introducing primary school students to careers in quantity surveying, project management, and digital innovation through the creative lens of Minecraft Education.
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All our members have been sent invitations to the next IHBC CPD-led Council, with new business, and learning that includes London Charterhouse Director of Estates & Conservation, Aimée Felton on ‘The London Charterhouse – A Case Study in Heritage Estate Management’, in a session chaired by Rebecca Thompson, Director of Property, St Paul’s Cathedral and IHBC President elect & Chair of Council.
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Booking is now open for the IHBC’s 2025 Annual School – #IHBCShrewsbury2025 – in wonderful Shrewsbury, on 12-14 June, centred on our hybrid (in-person & Virtual) Day School (13 June), with certified IHBC CPD, exhibitors, pre-conference webinars, networking & more
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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 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 New Civil Engineer on ‘Statutory consultees removed to streamline planning…’.
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Wrexham Council could exploit the new Grade II listing of Waterworld to access ‘funding that was otherwise unavailable for a non-listed asset’, reports the Wrexham News.
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Historic England has announced 30 new projects exploring England’s rural and coastal working-class heritage.
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The government has taken immediate action after checks found widespread cases of poor-quality solid wall insulation installed under inherited ECO4 and GBIS.
Continue readingThe Heritage Alliance has issued briefing on the English Devolution White Paper, which has been supported through our Planning and Devolution Bills working group, and shared with government.
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The Scottish Civic Trust, the national voice for local civic and heritage groups, on 3 February 2025 launched their new strategy Scotland’s Places, People, and their Stories.
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The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) is recruiting individuals from a diverse range of science, engineering, and industrial backgrounds for its first ever College of Experts, ‘a list of pre-approved experts from whom MHCLG can commission short pieces of ad hoc work under contract…’.
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As a project partner, the Sustainable Traditional Buildings Alliance (STBA) is working with European experts in the CALECHE Project, developing sustainable solutions for historic building conservation.
Continue readingBooking is now open for the IHBC’s 2025 Annual School – #IHBCShrewsbury2025 – in wonderful Shrewsbury, on 12-14 June, centred on our hybrid (in-person & Virtual) Day School (13 June), with certified IHBC CPD, exhibitors, pre-conference webinars, networking & more
Continue readingAll our members have been sent invitations to the next IHBC CPD-led Council, with new business, and learning that includes London Charterhouse Director of Estates & Conservation, Aimée Felton on ‘The London Charterhouse – A Case Study in Heritage Estate Management’, in a session chaired by Rebecca Thompson, Director of Property, St Paul’s Cathedral and IHBC President elect & Chair of Council.
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IHBC Chair David McDonald has notified all members of the IHBC of the details of the IHBC’s 2025 AGM, to take place online on Tuesday 13 May at 6pm – including those standing down – 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.
Continue readingKnow any emerging professionals or practitioners who’ve shown eagerness and accomplishment in learning new conservation trades or skills, or retired conservation professionals giving back to their local communities – Nominate them for an IHBC-MARSH Award to celebrate their contributions!
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A new report offers independent analysis of the consultation on EPC reform, held by the Scottish Government to gain views and greater understanding on what could be achieved in this area, has been issued.
Continue readingThe 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 Northern Ireland (NI) government service for a team for modernisation works to an A-listed building in a Conservation Area (CA), to 24/03.
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