image for illustration: The Museum of English Rural Life, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
To mark the centenary year of the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE), a new exhibition at The Museum of English Rural Life (The MERL) celebrates the charity’s pivotal role in shaping and protecting England’s countryside.
Continue readingOne in nine (11%) new homes in England constructed between 2022 and 2024 have been built in areas of medium or high risk of flooding, according to new analysis from insurer Aviva, as Greater London and Essex have the highest number of constituencies with at-risk new homes.
Continue readingNew analysis by Protrade reveals a 1.5% increase in new construction apprentices for 2024/25, representing the first year of growth since the 2021/22 peak.
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To connect employers’ needs with practitioners’ skills, the IHBC regularly updates our NewsBlog readers on the wide-ranging opportunities on our ‘IHBC Jobs etc.’ service, so sign up for free alerts and tell your boss or team how our low-cost service helps them and brings public benefits too!
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IHBC’s newest CPD Circular, which lists accessible and cost-effective ‘Continuing Professional Development’ (CPD) opportunities on our networks, has been simplified, with tighter ties to our Events Calendar, colour coding of provider categories.
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The Research Infrastructure for Conservation and Heritage Science (RICHeS) has opened its Full Access Fund – to help heritage science and conservation researchers etc to access RICHeS-funded equipment, with a support webinar on 11 March.
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Booking is open for IHBC’s South East Branch (SE Branch) Day School and AGM on ‘Seaside structures of the 20th century’, Bexhill-on-Sea’s De La Warr Pavilion, on 13 March from 9.30am
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Know any emerging practitioners who’ve shown accomplishment in learning new conservation trades or skills, AND/OR Retired conservation professionals giving back to their local communities: Nominate them NOW for an IHBC-MARSH Award to celebrate their contributions!
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IHBC’s Council, our inclusive member-only advisory and training body, held its most recent meeting online on 8 October to engage with and update members while also exploring ‘Heritage Skills in Conservation’, and now with new-format response-led First Draft minutes available for review and feedback to us at IHBCCouncil@ihbc.org.uk.
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image for illustration: Becket’s Chapel by Hugh Llewelyn from Keynsham, England, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Historic England’s Advice Note 18 explores ‘Adapting Historic Buildings for Energy and Carbon Efficiency’.
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The IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance service – emails members our exclusive ‘News and Tender Alerts’, with the Director’s tender taster for NewsBlog readers this week a call from a national heritage body for Conservation Plans for two iconic buildings, to 27/03/2026.
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image for illustration: Burghley House, the Orangery by Tilman2007, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
The Stone Specialist and Clare Howcutt-Kelly visits stonemasons Mick Teale and his son, Ben at one of the largest and most spectacular Elizabethan houses in the UK.
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On the 22 January 2026, the UK Government confirmed the end of Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme, to be replaced by a £92 million four-year-fund called the Places of Worship Renewal Fund, which The National Churches Trust (NCT) reports on, with a call to write to your MP.
Continue readingWith Proof of Concept funding opportunities open from 4 March, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is streamlining its research translation and commercialisation funding opportunities to make them clearer and more consistent.
Continue readingDesigning Buildings National Planning Policy Framework 2025 draft review in brief with indicative responses.
Continue readingMore than 200 high-school students from across the region gathered at Okanagan College for the institution’s annual spaghetti bridge-building competition, a long-running event designed to test students’ engineering skills using only pasta and glue.
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The IHBC has recently secured permission to seek a Charter while delivery of our 5 Parliamentary Commitments is under way and Branch Consultants are in place, and much more too, so we’re now calling for volunteers to help, and grow your skills with us!
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Booking is open for IHBC’s South East Branch (SE Branch) Day School and AGM on ‘Seaside structures of the 20th century’, Bexhill-on-Sea’s De La Warr Pavilion, on 13 March from 9.30am
Continue readingIHBC members should have received their invitation from our President, Rebecca Thompson, to join in our new-style and ‘members-only’ online Council from 4.30pm on 8 April, when, as well as Charters & much more, we start to ‘investigate conservation roles and services in local government’ – part of our 3rd Parliamentary Commitment.
Continue readingKnow any emerging practitioners who’ve shown accomplishment in learning new conservation trades or skills, AND/OR Retired conservation professionals giving back to their local communities: Nominate them NOW for an IHBC-MARSH Award to celebrate their contributions!
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Historic building conservation is for buildings more modern than you might expect, reports Scotland’s The Engine Shed.
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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 the HESPR Alert News on ‘Booking opening for #IHBCNewcastle2026’.
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Earlier this week a local tour guide urged Tyneside authorities to urgently crack on with the restoration of the broken Swing Bridge, reports Newcastle World.
Continue readingThe Heritage Fund is asking the thousands of owners and managers of historic landscape parks and gardens across the UK to take part in a new survey about how the climate crisis is affecting the places you care for.
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