The Heritage Alliance’s legal partner Bates Wells Braithwaite (BWB), the UK’s leading law firm for charities and social enterprises, writes a regular ‘legal corner’ for Heritage Update: Are you meeting your safeguarding obligations? After a series of high-profile incidents in the public and charity sectors, …

This Government call for evidence will support a review of the actions that could be most effective in improving the productivity and growth of small and medium-sized businesses. This review is focused on improving the productivity of businesses with lower productivity, sometimes described as a ‘long tail’ …

The Government is consulting on a draft strategy to reduce air pollution in England. This may have impacts of historic vehicles. The consultation closes 14 August 2018.

Historic England: Community Development Advisers: Taylor Review Pilot Locations: 1 x Manchester, 1 x Cambridge/Suffolk Refs: 8556/8554 Join Historic England and be a part of an exciting Pilot project focussed on delivering and evaluating the maintenance and community engagement of listed places of worship. This …

Flexible location – London, Manchester, Birmingham or Cambridge considered Ref: 8548 Join Historic England and help to lead an exciting Pilot project focussed on delivering and evaluating the maintenance and community engagement of listed places of worship. This is both a practical project to help …

Locations: 1 x Manchester, 1 x Cambridge/Suffolk Refs: 8552/8550 Join Historic England and be a part of an exciting Pilot project focussed on delivering and evaluating the maintenance and community engagement of listed places of worship. This is both a practical project to help those …

Salary: £27,300 Hours of Work: 37.5 hours per week Contract length: Initially 18 months July 2018 to December 2019 (with the possibility to extend) To manage a portfolio of church and charity heritage-based projects, from early inception through to securing grant funding from HLF and …

This is the first DCMS Areas of Research Interest (ARI) publication . It summarises the most important research questions facing DCMS. These include: Research on the economic and social impacts of heritage on local surroundings e.g. on house prices/businesses, increasing mutual understanding and cohesion etc. Evidence to …

The CLA [Alliance member] has published the first paper of its kind detailing a new mechanism for how a post-Brexit public goods scheme should work for farming and rural businesses as well as delivering for the environment and society. The substantial new report explains how a Land …

Together the National Park Authorities are signatories to a Joint Statement on the Historic Environment in National Parks. The agencies with responsibility for heritage and the historic environment in England, Wales and Scotland have also signed up to this statement which guides joint work on …

The Institute of Historic Building Conservation(IHBC) [Alliance member] has responded to Historic England’s consultation draft on Conservation Area Appraisal, Designation and Management: Historic England Advice Note 1, registering its serious concerns. The IHBC considers that the revised version ‘fails to acknowledge that the character and appearance …

RAISE is a programme that supports fundraisers and development professionals working in the arts, culture and heritage sector throughout England. The programme aims to raise the profile of cultural sector fundraising, enhance the expertise of sector fundraisers and share that knowledge, and enable fundraisers to engage with …