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- IHBC welcomes RICS’ #IHBCShrewsbury2025 School ‘Friend’ benefit: RICS’ rates for members at Global Building Conservation Conference, ‘Sharing heritage skills…’, 25/09, online, 7hrs CPD 18/07/2025
- IHBC SE Branch Summer Social – Friday 25 July, Pevensey Castle: Places available – ‘Book, bring a picnic… & pop in & out as suits!’ 18/07/2025
- Need a MATE? Next chance 5 August: IHBC’s free monthly online accreditation guidance… all welcome, including accredited members seeking CPD updates and roles in IHBC training and assessments 18/07/2025
- IHBC Research for Practice Digest No.6 now out: ‘Connecting conservation research and professional practice’ 18/07/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Practice’ Signpost: Protected sites and development from the LGA and PAS 18/07/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Major Fire at Edwardian Busbridge Hall, Godalming, after BBQ sparks blaze 18/07/2025
- Welsh Planning Reforms to ‘…. speed up infrastructure decisions and create jobs..’, to make ‘… Wales the fastest country in the UK for determining planning applications’ 18/07/2025
- HES: National campaign, ‘Historic Places, Breathing Spaces’, calls on all to ‘connect with heritage to boost.. wellbeing…’ 18/07/2025
- England’s Dormant Assets Scheme: Forgotten assets to help families and young people thrive 18/07/2025
- MPs say ‘Warm homes retrofit failures pushing UK clean, secure energy targets further off track’ 18/07/2025
- Scotland’s urgent Church Challenge helped by National Lottery Heritage Fund Grant to Scotland’s Churches Trust & Soc Ant Scot 18/07/2025
- CMS Select Committee update on protecting built heritage, hear calls for end to ‘boom and bust’ heritage funding 18/07/2025
- Looking back at IHBC’s Context 183 (Part 2): IHBC’s members’ journal with Alexandra Fairclough’s ‘Law and Policy update’, UK-wide, plus Planning Appeals (with a shark) 15/07/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Research’ Signpost update to RICHeS Survey: For Heritage Science community and networks, input sought to 1 August 15/07/2025
- LAST CHANCE TO APPLY: IHBC seeks ‘Branch Consultants’ with strong interpersonal, IT & comms skills for flexible part-time (typically 4 hours/week) regional support: Help boost locally-led conservation and volunteers, @£25/hour + expenses, closes 18 July 15/07/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Professional’ Signpost: DB on ‘Architects, architecture, buildings, construction and inspiration in film’ 15/07/2025
- IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’: Arch Daily’s ‘Tribute to Léon Krier’ 15/07/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Future of Southend’s Kursaal discussed at Parliament meeting 15/07/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Built heritage trusts in Glasgow receive new funding from council 15/07/2025
- CoE: Major refurbishment of Lambeth Palace completed 15/07/2025
- Kicking restoration of Parliament down the road risks disaster, authorities told 15/07/2025
- University of Cambridge on ‘The Business Case for Integrated Retrofit: How banks, insurers, and the government can support healthy, efficient, and resilient homes’ 15/07/2025
- CIOB responds to committee report criticising UK retrofit schemes 15/07/2025
- Investing in community regeneration in Scotland – Projects to unlock economic growth and tackle poverty 15/07/2025
- RIBA Library and Collections services update June 2025 15/07/2025
Tag Archives: accessibility
HE reporting on ‘What Are the Experiences of Disabled People in the Heritage Sector in 2025?’
Results and recommendations have been reported from research conducted by Direct Access as part of Historic England’s (HE) Disability Access to Heritage project.
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Tagged accessibility, conservation, disability, expertise, heritage, research, skills, working
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CIC & partners launch Competence Framework for Sustainability in the Built Environment
The Construction Industry Council (CIC) and the Edge have jointly published the ‘Competence Framework for Sustainability in the Built Environment’.
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Tagged accessibility, building, climate change, environment, finance, nature, planning, safety, sustainability
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HE & Direct Access survey: Accessibility and Inclusion, to 05/02, with focus group calls for January
Direct Access is conducting an accessibility and inclusion survey for Historic England, open to 5 February, to understand the challenges people face when visiting historic sites up and down the country, with online Focus Groups also open across 27-29 January.
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Tagged accessibility, conservation, heritage, inclusion, questionnaire
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