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- IHBC welcomes Government response to DCMS Committee inquiry into ‘Protecting built heritage…’: … supportive statements but little detail… 27/10/2026
- IHBC Marsh Awards NOW OPEN: Nominate your ‘Successful learner’ (in Heritage Skills) or ‘Retired member’ (Community Contributions), to close 15 December 2026 27/10/2026
- Bursaries now open for IHBC Annual School 2027: Accessible, certified CPD on Climate Change & Significance 27/10/2026
- IHBC welcomes RICHeS Access Fund second call: ‘access… cutting-edge equipment, collections & expertise’, to £20K, for charities, social enterprises, commercial companies etc. 27/10/2026
- IHBC’s ‘Research’ CPD Signpost: Scotland’s ‘Our Past, Our Future’ (OPOF) Midpoint Report 2026 27/10/2026
- IHBC’s ‘Professional’ CPD Signpost: The professional ethics of AI in surveying, from the RICS 27/10/2026
- IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’: IHBC on Save the Date for #IHBCBristolBath2027 – 10-12 June 2027 – as website opens! 27/10/2026
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Eryri hydropower approval withdrawn following legal challenge 27/10/2026
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Shapinsay has won a national public vote to transform the land around its historic Gas House into a community garden. 27/10/2026
- LGA: National cultural framework to reset how culture is delivered 27/10/2026
- Heritage Debate 2026 asks ‘How can Heritage stay relevant today?’, 18/11, online & free 27/10/2026
- New Commissioners Appointed to Historic England 27/10/2026
- Heritage Fund: Reopening Dewsbury Arcade as the UK’s first community-run shopping centre… ‘home to 16 affordable small shops… studios &… event space’ 27/10/2026
- Chief Construction and Scientific Adviser appointed to improve building safety 27/10/2026
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: The Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society, on a Vape Shop next to Mackintosh Tearooms 27/10/2026
- Bursaries now open for IHBC Annual School 2027: Accessible, certified CPD on Climate Change & Significance 23/10/2026
- IHBC looks forward, from our last Council: Public Practice Associate Programme open to 16/11, as Trustee Serena Cardozo highlights potential 23/10/2026
- IHBC Marsh Awards NOW OPEN: Nominate your ‘Successful learner’ (in Heritage Skills) or ‘Retired member’ (Community Contributions), to close 15 December 2026 23/10/2026
- REGISTER INTEREST NOW: IHBC’s new ‘Leaders in Learning for Practice Network’ seeks ‘interest’ from leads in conservation-led education, training & learning programmes & courses 23/10/2026
- CLOSING SOON: IHBC’s first joint National-Branch CPD Partnership event – Bob Kindred MBE on ‘Enforcement…’, 27/10: In person in London, and Online (from £15-£50) 23/10/2026
- IHBC’s ‘Research’ CPD Signpost: Design Economy – Evidencing the value of the UK’s design sector across nations and regions. 23/10/2026
- IHBC’s ‘Management’ CPD Signpost: York Minster’s New Centre of Excellence for Heritage Craft Skills and Estate Management 23/10/2026
- IHBC Director’s ‘double-up’ taster from HESPR’s £969K works: Council seeks structural engineer for church (@£15K) & heritage trust calls for learning specialist on Schools resource (@£3.8K) 23/10/2026
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: An 180-year old church has disappeared overnight, and people are angry 23/10/2026
- National Heritage Memorial Fund seeks Memorial Fund Panel Members, to 5 November 23/10/2026
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IHBC Marsh Awards NOW OPEN: Nominate your ‘Successful learner’ (in Heritage Skills) or ‘Retired member’ (Community Contributions), to close 15 December 2026
The IHBC has opened nominations for the next IHBC-MARSH Awards, under its new schedule, from 30 September to 15 December for 2026, offering awards that celebrate ‘Learning in Heritage Skills’ and ‘Community Contributions by Retired members’.
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IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’: IHBC on Save the Date for #IHBCBristolBath2027 – 10-12 June 2027 – as website opens!
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 IHBC’s own ‘Save the Date for #IHBCBristolBath2027 – 10-12 … Continue reading
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Tagged conservation, expertise, heritage, professional, skills
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LGA: National cultural framework to reset how culture is delivered
The Local Government Associations highlights how Councils are calling for a ‘national reset’ of how culture is delivered in England through a new cultural framework.
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Tagged councils, culture, Government UK, heritage, local authorities, local government
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Shapinsay has won a national public vote to transform the land around its historic Gas House into a community garden.
image: Shirley Grant, Shapinsay Gas House, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons Shapinsay has won a national public vote to transform the land around its historic Gas House into a community garden, reports The Orkney News.
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Tagged community, conservation, heritage, Scotland
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New Commissioners Appointed to Historic England
Seven new Commissioners have been appointed to Historic England, including Charles Donald, Dominic Field, Anna Keay, Georgina Lynch, Claire McColgan, Lukman Patel, and Moira Sinclair, with all appointed for a term of four years.
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Tagged appointments, commissioners, heritage, HIstoric England
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NT: Landmark act of generosity secures home of London’s oldest restaurant for the future
image: Steve F, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons The home of a beloved London institution once frequented by Charles Dickens and Charlie Chaplin has been secured for the future as its owner, J-P Mayhew, has donated the building and … Continue reading
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Tagged building, conservation, heritage, London, national trust
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IHBC Marsh Awards NOW OPEN: Nominate your ‘Successful learner’ (in Heritage Skills) or ‘Retired member’ (Community Contributions), to close 15 December 2026
The IHBC has opened nominations for the next IHBC-MARSH Awards, under its new schedule, from 30 September to 15 December for 2026, offering awards that celebrate ‘Learning in Heritage Skills’ and ‘Community Contributions by Retired members’.
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Tagged awards, heritage
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LAST CHANCE: IHBC’s WM Branch to join West Midlands Heritage Careers Fair 2026: ‘Inspiring the Next Generation of Heritage Professionals’, 21/10, Worcester Cathedral
image: Worcester Cathedral interior by Steve McLeish for IHBC Annual School 2016 This IHBC and our West Midlands Branch will join the next West Midlands Heritage Trust (WMHT) Careers Fair, which will come to Worcester Cathedral on 21 October 2026.
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Tagged careers, heritage, skills
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National Lottery Community Fund proposes rewording of statutory remit
The National Lottery Community Fund (NLCF) has suggested that the language underpinning its good cause funding remit should be modernised.
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Tagged charity, environment, funding, heritage, National Lottery
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: New Brunswick bishop seeks ways to save historic cathedral from demolition
image: CLallaby, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons The bishop of Bathurst, New Brunswick, says he hopes to have discussions with the city’s mayor about how to save the city’s historic Sacred Heart Cathedral, currently slated for demolition next spring, … Continue reading
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Tagged Canada, cathedral, demolition, global, heritage, quebec
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IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’: Partners SPAB & Owlsworth celebrate as ‘Chapel wins Architects’ Journal Retrofit Award’
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 partners on ‘St Andrew’s Chapel wins Architects’ Journal Retrofit … Continue reading
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IHBC welcomes new findings from joint Arts Culture & Heritage Project: ‘… to better articulate the economic, social and cultural value of arts, culture and heritage’
The IHBC has warmly welcomed the new report from Historic England (HE) and partners on ‘Developing Taxonomies for Arts, Culture and Heritage’ a project ‘describing how arts, culture and heritage create flows of benefits for people and communities’.
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Tagged AHRC, arts, culture, heritage, HIstoric England, research
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IHBC Director’s pick from HESPR’s £2.3Mn new weekly costed works: City BID partnership seeks concept proposals for 3 ‘transformations’ of key locations, to 1/11, @ £500 each
The IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance service – sends members exclusive ‘News and Tender Alerts’, with the Director’s top taster for NewsBlog readers this week a call from a city BID … Continue reading
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Tagged heritage, heritage professionals, HESPR
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IHBC’s ‘Research’ CPD Signpost: Scotland’s heritage delivers benefits far beyond tourism, new evidence shows
image for illustration: Mallaig by Bradscorner, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons Scotland’s Historic Environment Audit 2026 highlights the contribution Scotland’s historic environment makes to the economy, communities, wellbeing and sustainable places
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IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’: NCE on ‘Ireland’s infrastructure threatened by climate change’
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 New Civil Engineer (NCE) on ‘Ireland’s infrastructure threatened by … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (trust) doorstep’: A house that changed architecture: Richard +?Su Rogers’s modernist masterpiece given to the nation
image: SVPetersham, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons The modernist family home designed by architects Richard?+?Su Rogers?that inspired some of the world’s most celebrated buildings has been given to the National Trust for the nation by the Rogers family.
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Tagged heritage, modern architecture, national trust, Richard Rogers, Su Rogers
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IHBC’s 2026 ‘Yearbook’ update No.1 –RTPI President on ‘IHBC & RTPI.. a great example of planning across the divide’
The IHBC’s 2026 Yearbook is our network’s essential sector guide, reference and review for 2026-27, complementing our 2026 Newcastle School, with IHBC updates and a foreword by Jan Bessell FRTPI, 2026 RTPI President, who supports ‘conservation planning’ as ‘… a … Continue reading
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Tagged building, environment, expertise, heritage, skills
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IHBC’s ‘Professional’ CPD Signpost: National Trust Annual Report on Linkedin – ‘… success stories… possible thanks to… members, volunteers, partners, and funders’
The National Trust Annual Report offers ‘some of the successes we couldn’t have achieved without your help.’
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (government) doorstep’: Local leaders handed powers to drive investment in communities
Mayors and local leaders will be given new powers with a levy on overnight stays as part of a devolution drive to shift power out of Westminster, reports Government UK.
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IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’: AJ on Glasgow CC’s Albert Cross Design Contest
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 Architects’ Journal (AJ) on Glasgow City Council’s (CC) Albert … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep: It started as Macy’s then hosted bankrupt robotics firm, now set for new chapter…
A large building in Nampa with an unusual history – from 2009 – is up for sale, reports Boise Dev, as the former Macy’s building in the Sugar District development has been made available for sale or lease by Boise … Continue reading
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IHBC’s October CPD Circular: Your user-friendly ‘What’s on’ guide to heritage learning, networking and experiences, from Branches to ‘CPD Providers’ & beyond…
IHBC’s new CPD Circular lists current accessible & cost-effective ‘Continuing Professional Development’ (CPD) including from local Branches, IHBC Recognised CPD Providers and more.
IHBC’s ‘Professional’ CPD Signpost: HE & partners on ‘Industrial Heritage in England – Resilience and Sustainability of Sites’, with 10 recommendations
image for illustration: Archaeologytea, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Commissioned by Historic England (HE) and the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust, a 2025 report by Heritage Innovation has been published, focussed on designated industrial heritage sites, with ten recommendations.
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Tagged conservation, environment, heritage, industrial
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Heritage Fund’s CE Eilish McGuinness: ‘We’ll invest £1.4 billion in heritage and communities over the next three years’
Heritage Fund Chief Executive Eilish McGuinness has introduced their new delivery plan for 2026–2029, sharing the next steps to achieving its ambitious 10-year vision for the UK’s heritage.
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Tagged england, heritage, Heritage Fund, UK, wales
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IHBC’s WM Branch to join West Midlands Heritage Careers Fair 2026: ‘Inspiring the Next Generation of Heritage Professionals’, 21/10, Worcester Cathedral
image: Worcester Cathedral interior by Steve McLeish for IHBC Annual School 2016 This IHBC and our West Midlands Branch will join the next West Midlands Heritage Trust (WMHT) Careers Fair, which will come to Worcester Cathedral on 21 October 2026.
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