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- IHBC celebrates learning, partnerships, friends and more at #IHBCShrewsbury2025, with thanks to all involved, and looks ahead to 2026, in June, in Newcastle, on ‘Adaptive Reuse’ 16/06/2025
- 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 16/06/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Members with benefits’: West Dean’s 10% discount on specialist Conservation courses for IHBC members (all categories 16/06/2025
- IHBC Signpost: DBW The Construction Wiki: The Gridshell – what is a gridshell? 16/06/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Director’s pick’ from HESPR’s £500K of weekly works: Council seeks park bridge assessments, to 26/06, £15K 16/06/2025
- IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’: WAF 25on ‘Lies, damn lies, and Homes England statistics’ 16/06/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Historic England gives £500K to Winter Gardens project 16/06/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Huge bill for demolition of unauthorised ‘man cave’ as council to get millionaire to pay 16/06/2025
- HES announces £3.9Mn funding to third-sector organisations 16/06/2025
- AHF funds support revival of Jacobs Wells Baths as ‘multi-use hub’ 16/06/2025
- HE’s Advice Note on ‘Historic Almshouses A Guide to Managing Change’ 16/06/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: European heritage Awards/ Europa Nostra Awards 2026 – Apply by 9/09 16/06/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: IHBC reminds members and networks of ‘LAST CHANCE TO BOOK VIRTUAL SHREWSBURY SCHOOL’, by 12/06 for broadcast and recordings on 13/06 (local times) 10/06/2025
- IHBC’s June ‘CPD Circular’: Accessible, cost-conscious learning, events, awards, calls etc., featuring Schools, webinars, Branch CPD partnerships and more 10/06/2025
- IHBC CPD Circular – Special Edition – Your CPD Guide to #IHBCShrewsbury2025 10/06/2025
- IHBC welcomes RICS Friend of the School Jessica Jones – RICS Building Conservation Advisory Group VC – to #IHBCShrewsbury2025: NB Virtual School booking (13/06, from £35+VAT) closes 12/06, 5.00pm 10/06/2025
- IHBC’s SPECIAL OFFER and updates to Conservation Course networks & students: Free access to (and recordings of) our online 2025 Shrewsbury ‘Virtual School’ (13 June) and more… 10/06/2025
- IHBC’s NewsBlog launch of Griff Rhys Jones on #IHBCShrewsbury2025 and more: Check out our YouTube channel for community and economics in conservation! 10/06/2025
- 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 10/06/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Policy’ Signpost: Natural England’s updated ‘Protected species and development: advice for local planning authorities’ 10/06/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (business) doorstep’: Leicester’s historic Rialto Bridge faces six-month specialist repair project 10/06/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Fire damaged Shire Hall in Wales could become a riverside apartment complex, if… 10/06/2025
- Heritage Crafts Red List of Endangered Crafts 2025 published 10/06/2025
- HES consultation on ‘Scotland’s protected historic places… a long-term strategy for heritage designation’ 10/06/2025
- Canal & River Trust announces new chief executive 10/06/2025
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (Irish) doorstep’: Thatch Repair Grant Scheme Opens in Donegal (with a little on ‘Fire Risk’)
Donegal County Council’s award-winning Thatch Repair Grant Scheme has opened for applications.
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IHBC Research spotlight: HE on ‘Challenges to Thatch Supply Threaten Vital Rural Industry’
image: Historic England The majority of growers and producers of cereal straw for England’s traditional thatching industry are currently relying on old, inefficient and unreliable machinery, according to a new Historic England report: Machinery for Harvesting and Processing Cereal Straw … Continue reading
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