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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Consultation on ‘Reforms to the Energy Performance of Buildings’ regime, to 26/02

Posted on 18/02/2025 by IHBC

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The Government has issued a consultation on changes to Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs), Display Energy Certificates (DECs), and air conditioning inspection reports (ACIRs), closing 26 February 2025. [applies to England & Wales]

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Marina Tabassum & firm selected for Serpentine Pavilion 2025

Posted on 18/02/2025 by IHBC

Serpentine is delighted to announce that Bangladeshi architect and educator Marina Tabassum and her firm, Marina Tabassum Architects (MTA), have been selected to design the 2025 Pavilion, titled A Capsule in Time.

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Megan Veronesi appointed Interim Director of EWH

Posted on 18/02/2025 by IHBC

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Edinburgh World Heritage (EWH) has announced Megan Veronesi’s appointment as Interim Director, stepping into the role previously held by Christina Sinclair.

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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: National Trust for Canada’s Review of 2024: Great Saves & Worst Losses

Posted on 18/02/2025 by IHBC

image for illustration: Barkerville (BC) by Cbone, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

The National Trust for Canada has issued its ‘non-exhaustive roll-up of some of the highlights and lowlights from 2024’.

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IHBC’s SelfStarter opens accessible learning to all: On our Home Page, with new branding, updates & more for emerging Conservation Professionals – so say what more you need

Posted on 14/02/2025 by IHBC

The IHBC’s SelfStarter hub – our ‘quick guide to conservation online’, targeting emerging Conservation Professionals but open to all – has just benefited from a refresh, with new branding and more, and as that’s just the start our update, just let us know what more you need.

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IHBC calls for Vice President nominees (to 24/02): Help lead IHBC’s Council from our FIRST hybrid Council, in London and online, 24 March 2025 – ‘Statements’ due 24 February 2025

Posted on 14/02/2025 by IHBC

As procedures for the officers of the IHBC’s Council evolve, the IHBC seeks up to four suitably qualified nominees to serve as co-Vice President(s), to be appointed at Council’s FIRST blended meeting on 24 March 2025 (or after), with ‘Statements’ due by Monday 24 February.

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IHBC’s Council ‘Diary Date’: On 24 March, welcome IHBC’s next President Rebecca Thompson, new VPs, Mike Brown in new role, with Asset Management CPD & more, all at IHBC’s FIRST blended Council, from London’s Charterhouse

Posted on 14/02/2025 by IHBC

image for illustration: Charterhouse by Stuart Taylor, CC BY-SA 2.0

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.

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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 14/02/2025 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 ‘Amenity & Professional’ Signpost from 2024: Cardiff Coal Exchange on Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list for the second time

Posted on 14/02/2025 by IHBC

As the owner of one of Wales’ most iconic buildings says he is likely to find himself having to commit a criminal offence in order to save it, we’re featuring Cardiff Coal Exchange – Grade II* by Seward & Thomas, 1884-86 – from its second time on the Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings.

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IHBC’s ‘Director’s pick’ from HESPR’s £595K of weekly works: Council seeks architectural practice with conservation lead for ‘iconic project’ to 10/03 and £500K

Posted on 14/02/2025 by IHBC

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 City Council for an architectural practice with a conservation accredited lead for an ‘iconic project’, to 10/03/2025, and £500K.

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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Lewes’ Gail’s makes fresh bid to keep new doors

Posted on 14/02/2025 by IHBC

A high end bakery chain is making a fresh attempt to keep the modern glass doors it has installed in a listed building in Lewes, reports Sussex News.

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