The Alliance was pleased to attend Wildlife and Countryside Link and Greener UK’s Parliamentary Farmers’ Market to hear speeches from Environment Minister Therese Coffey and National Trust [Alliance member] Director General Hilary McGrady amongst others. The event demonstrated the growing cross-sector consensus on the interdependence …
Do you know of a woman who deserves her own statue?
Put her forward, an artwork by non zero one, commissioned by Heritage Open Days, that recognises living women who have positively impacted the people around them. Of the 925 public statues in the UK, just 25 of these are of non-mythical, non-royal women. After nominations …
Survey to assist World Heritage UK bid for Resilient Heritage funds
World Heritage UK [Alliance member] is currently preparing a bid to apply for a Heritage Lottery Fund Resilient Heritage grant and running a short survey to help guide the application
New Museum School secures National Lottery support
Culture& [Alliance member], has received a National Lottery grant for the ‘New Museum School’ project which aims to open up who represents, makes and enjoys arts and heritage by providing year-long work-based placements for trainees from diverse cultural and social backgrounds. The New Museum School …
Icon Publishes Report on China Collaboration
The Institute of Conservation, Icon, [Alliance member] has published a report discussing opportunities for UK-China collaboration in cultural heritage conservation. Based on Icon Chief Executive Alison Richmond’s recent tour of Shaanxi Province as a part of the UK delegation to the Silk Road International Expo …
Parliament’s Elizabeth Tower original colour scheme to be restored
The clock dial frames and the hands of the Elizabeth Tower are to be repainted in a return to the original Victorian colour scheme shown in this week’s header image. Completed in 1859, the design of the clock tower was undertaken by Charles Barry, the …
English Housing Survey 2016 and other reports published
The Government has a number of reports on housing. One of those published is a report on the energy efficiency of the English housing stock using present-day statistics, time-series analysis and profiling of hard-to-treat dwellings. Among other things this notes: Around one in fifteen privately …
Cultural connectedness between the UK and the US
Research published this week by the British Council, entitled ‘A Special Relationship’, revealed that the cultural connectedness between the UK and the US is ‘strong, and shows no signs of weakening’. The research, which surveyed 1000 young people, noted that 71% of Americans agreed that …
Government injects £7.5 million into council digital agenda with launch of new sector pledge
A “digital pledge” backed by £7.5 million of Government funding has been launched to help councils transform their online services. Over 50 local authorities, Government departments and partner organisations have already signed up to the pledge, called the Local Digital Declaration, agreeing a common vision …
Museums and galleries monthly visits
In May 2018 there were a total of 3.9 million visits to the DCMS-sponsored museums and galleries. This is an increase of 0.1% (around 4,000 visits) compared with May 2017.
New research into factors the public associate with trustworthy charities
The Charity Commission has published an independent study examining the factors that the public associate with a trustworthy charity. It identifies the key drivers of trust in charities as being: transparent about where money goes (8.8 of 10) true to their values (8.5) efficient in …
Charity tax statistics 2017/18
HMRC has published the charity tax statistics for 2017/18. Overall the value of tax reliefs to charities (including Gift Aid, SDLT and business rates relief) is £3.62bn and for individuals the value of tax reliefs (including higher rate relief, IHT relief and payroll giving) is …