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- IHBC’s special thanks from our Newcastle 2026 School to our ‘Exhibitor Hub’ supporters, as we look forward to School, events & more in 2027 – Bristol & Bath, on ‘Climate Change & Significance’ 24/07/2026
- IHBC welcomes ‘real data’ informing Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) accuracy research 24/07/2026
- REGISTER INTEREST NOW: IHBC’s new ‘Leaders in Learning for Practice Network’ seeks ‘interest’ from leads in conservation-led education, training & learning programmes & courses 24/07/2026
- IHBC’s 2026 Gus Astley Student Award for heritage work on UK courses: Open to 31/08 – Win £500 + free place at #IHBCBristolBath2027, on ‘Climate Change & Significance’ 24/07/2026
- IHBC ‘Research’ CPD signpost: The resilience of traditionally constructed buildings to flooding 24/07/2026
- IHBC research CPD signpost: … UK-wide survey: Heritage and Conservation Science Workforce: ‘‘Please complete and share’, from RICHeS and Icon, to 31 August 24/07/2026
- IHBC Director’s pick from HESPR’s £1.9M+ costed works this week: Trust seeks feasibility study in WHS, to 24/07, £60K 24/07/2026
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Another chance for Carlisle’s Victorian and Turkish Baths 24/07/2026
- Public to have their say on National Lottery Good Causes 24/07/2026
- Culture Secretary celebrates over 400 towns applying to be UK Town of Culture 24/07/2026
- Launch of 5 Year Action Plan for Scotland’s Landscape Charter 24/07/2026
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Dublin’s Temple Bar marks 35th anniversary- ‘Phenomenal success’ 24/07/2026
- SAHGB-IHBC Heritage Research Award 2026 open: Celebrates ‘research… in heritage and conservation practice’, to 20 August 21/07/2026
- IHBC welcomes new Heritage Counts research for HE on ‘Retrofitting Traditional Buildings: Embodied Carbon Payback Times’ 21/07/2026
- IHBC’s 2026 Gus Astley Student Award for heritage work on UK courses: Open to 31/08 – Win £500 + free place at #IHBCBristolBath2027, on ‘Climate Change & Significance’ 21/07/2026
- IHBC research CPD signpost: … UK-wide survey: Heritage and Conservation Science Workforce: ‘‘Please complete and share’, from RICHeS and Icon, to 31 August 21/07/2026
- IHBC’s ‘Practice’ CPD Signpost: ‘Help Tackle One of Construction’s Biggest Killers: – Dust’…. a 5-minute survey open to 31 July 21/07/2026
- IHBC’s ‘Professional’ CPD Signpost: Centre for Cultural value on ESRC-funded scoping project: ‘… blueprint for a national cultural data observatory for the UK’ 21/07/2026
- IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’: Building on ‘How Bradford’s regeneration is driving its revival’ 21/07/2026
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Moseley Road Baths secures full funding for Phase 2 – £9.27m from NLHF 21/07/2026
- BEFA/CIC: New report calls for data-led workforce planning to confront Built Environment skills permacrisis 21/07/2026
- BEFS POWF launches Ecclesiastical Exemption Survey 21/07/2026
- UK Heritage Pulse 2026: May (Intangible Cultural Heritage) 21/07/2026
- SPAB Call for Papers for 150th Anniversary Conference, to 31/08, hosted by SPAB Scotland 21/07/2026
- Jay Morton elected RIBA President (2027-2029) 21/07/2026
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Another chance for Carlisle’s Victorian and Turkish Baths
image for illustration: Carlisle’s Victorian and Turkish Baths by Markmclellan, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Charity receives grant to progress plans for a sustainable future for Carlisle’s Victorian and Turkish Baths, reports Northwest Bylines.
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Tagged building, conservation, culture, expertise, health, heritage, planning, skills, wellbeing
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Public to have their say on National Lottery Good Causes
The government on 1 July launched a 12-week call for evidence asking the public to help shape the future of National Lottery Good Cause funding (published under the 2024 to 2026 Starmer Labour government).
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Culture Secretary celebrates over 400 towns applying to be UK Town of Culture
The Culture Secretary visited the Museum of Liverpool yesterday to celebrate entries to the UK Town of Culture competition.
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Tagged building, culture, environment, government, heritage, town
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Dublin’s Temple Bar marks 35th anniversary- ‘Phenomenal success’
image for illustration: Temple Bar Dublin by Sonse, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Dublin’s Temple Bar has marked its 35th anniversary by paying tribute to the EU funding which kick-started its regeneration in 1991, reports RTE News.
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IHBC’s ‘Professional’ CPD Signpost: Centre for Cultural value on ESRC-funded scoping project: ‘… blueprint for a national cultural data observatory for the UK’
A new scoping project to develop a ‘blueprint for a national cultural data observatory, a programme’ – funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) – is outlined for the Centre for Cultural Value, the national research centre based … Continue reading
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Tagged arts, cultural value, culture, heritage
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IHBC’s ‘Research’ CPD Signpost: UCL research confirms ‘Engaging with arts linked to slower pace of ageing’
Regularly taking part in arts activities such as reading, listening to music or visiting a gallery or museum may slow the pace of biological ageing, suggests a new study by University College London (UCL) researchers
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Government UK Policy Paper update on ‘Culture Priority Places’
Government UK has updated on ‘Culture Priority Places’ and its methodology.
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IHBC’s ‘Research’ CPD Signpost: Funding opportunity in AHRC large grants: Outline stage – to £3M, 16/09
The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) encourages applicants to apply for Large Grants funding to deliver novel, ambitious and transformative arts and humanities research projects at scale.
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Exploring the role and impact of small museums in places, by AIM
The Association of Independent Museums (AIM) is seeking your organisation’s views on the role and impact of small and medium museums across the UK, with a particular focus on their contribution to local placemaking and community life.
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Tagged communities, culture, heritage, local, museums, research
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ACE report finds commercial strategy drives cultural sector income growth
Bringing together data and insights from more than 260 sites, ‘A Seat at the Table: Embedding Commercial Thinking in the Cultural Sector’ is a new report from the arts, heritage and cultural sector charity and trade body, the Association for … Continue reading
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Tagged analysis, business, cultural heritage, culture, economics
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Northern Ireland’s Heritage Delivers – an alliance of heritage organisations -on ‘Prosperity Progress Personality -Treasure the Past Enrich the Future’
An alliance of Northern Ireland’s heritage organisations, Heritage Delivers believes that ‘protecting and investing in our heritage is essential to creating a better future… Our heritage supports our prosperity, strengthens our society, and shapes our character.’
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Tagged culture, economy, heritage, investment, Northern Ireland, regeneration, tourism
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: The uncertain road for culture in climate policy… COP30 opens a new path as… ‘what seemed impossible became a reality’.
Simon Musasizi, Regional Co-Chair for Africa and the Arab States has posted a blog for Climate Heritage Network on Brazil’s COP30 in November 2025, when ‘what seemed impossible became a reality’.
Scottish Government supports HES chair amid resignation reports
The Scottish Government has said it will support the chair of Historic Environment Scotland to ‘resolve the leadership and governance issues’ amid reports of his impending resignation, reports Deadline News.
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130 cultural venues, museums, and libraries to receive funding boost that will improve access to arts and culture across the country
image for illustration; Black Country Museum, by Gordon Griffiths, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons 130 cultural venues, museums and libraries are set to receive a share of almost £130 million to protect them for present and future generations
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: European Heritage Hub launches ‘Open Call’ for articles under In Varietate Concordia Columns initiative
The European Heritage Hub launched a new Open Call for opinion articles and columns through its In Varietate Concordia initiative, inviting Europe’s cultural and intellectual community to share insights.
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Tagged culture, europe, heritage
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (council) doorstep’: Birmingham City Council issues late update on Black Sabbath pub – the full story so far
image for illustration: The Crown, 65 Station Street, Digbeth by P L Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Birmingham City Council issued a statement to the press about proposals for The Crown on Station Street hours before the pre-election period … Continue reading
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IHBC’s ‘Professional’ CPD Signpost: HE on ‘New measures to protect Historic Shipwrecks from heritage crime’
image for illustration: Joanna Theobald Historic England has marked a significant step forward to protect England’s most important shipwrecks, together with our wider underwater cultural heritage, from the threat of heritage crime.
IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’:Unesco-protected monastery in Lviv damaged by Russian drone strike
image for illustration: (before the drone strike) Bernadine Monastery, Lviv (26 September 2015) by Rbrechko – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0 A 17th-century Bernardine Monastery was one of several buildings hit in the Ukrainian city’s historic centre, which is a … Continue reading
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Tagged building, conflict, culture, environment, expertise, heritage, history
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From Local to Global: The Power of Heritage in a Changing World – Heritage Alliance Insight Report
‘From Local to Global: The Power of Heritage in a Changing World’ explores the significant contribution the UK’s heritage sector makes to international partnership, cultural diplomacy and global collaboration.
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Tagged culture, global, heritage, partnerships
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Government calls for submissions to UK’s first national inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) – ‘living Heritage – open to 27/03
The Government has launched a call for submissions to the UK’s first-ever national inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) – living heritage – on foot of the UK’s ratification of the 2003 UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: HE on ‘Stanley Kubrick – A Heritage Odyssey’
image for illustration: Highclere Castle by Steve Daniels, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons Stanley Kubrick, the great American filmmaker of the 20th century, made England his adopted home in 1961 in order to film his production of Lolita (1962) after … Continue reading
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Tagged culture, filming, heritage, heritage tourism, HIstoric England, locations
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England’s cultural infrastructure: repair, maintenance and renewal reports from Purcell show £2 billion of unfunded repair and maintenance (R&M)
Reports for government, prepared by Purcell, into the repair, maintenance and renewal needed in the English cultural sector have been issued, estimating a backlog of £2 billion unfunded repair and maintenance (R&M) in the sector.
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First ever UK Town of Culture competition to restore pride in communities – to 31/03
Towns across the country can now apply to become the first UK Town of Culture, to 31 March 2026.
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IHBC’s Research Signpost: ‘Who stays and who leaves? Mapping Arts, Culture and heritage Careers’ from the PEC
A new Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre (PEC) State of the Nations report, building on its previous Arts, Culture and Heritage (ACH) research, finds that exit rates from the sector are higher compared with other sectors.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: CyArk’s Heritage Amplified Grant (Engaging New Audiences …) and Heritage Documentation Training Grant (Empowering Cultural Preservation) to 23/01 & 30/01
CyArk’s Heritage Amplified Grant will provide recipients with an opportunity to amplify place-based stories of cultural heritage through 3D virtual experience, and its Heritage Documentation Training Grant offers a unique opportunity for 10 emerging professionals to gain photogrammetry training and … Continue reading
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