The first loan of the Bayeux Tapestry outside France for 950 years is expected to be to the British Museum in 2022.

English Heritage [Alliance member] has appointed new trustees. Kunle Olulode, the Director of Voice4Change England (a national advocate for the Black and Minority Ethnic voluntary and community sector), and David Olusoga, the historian, broadcaster and film-maker.

The #makeheritagefun series of activities is a distributed campaign coordinated by GoUNESCO and organized by local volunteers every quarter in cities around the world to draw attention to heritage. On December 17, 2017, more than 1000 heritage enthusiasts organized 22 heritage activities in 10 countries. …

The review found that overall, Historic England’s advice and guidance is well received and trusted by users with a strong level of advocacy (90% would speak highly about it to others). Users generally praise the breadth of content, which is accessed by a wide variety of audiences …

The Churches Conservation Trust [Alliance member] has published Regeneration Building a future for your historic church which provides an overview of past year activity, programme impact and an introduction to its consultancy service.

The Award is made for repair or conservation of fabric, fittings or furnishings carried out in the last 18 months at an historic church, chapel or other faith building which remains in use for worship. However, cathedrals of any denomination are not eligible.  The closing date …

The European Commission is tendering for a project to strengthen the capacity of private owners of heritage houses and equip them with innovative business models. The preparatory action will map the existing business models used by family-owned heritage houses in the EU, compare them, identify and share …

The UK-Gulf Exhibition Programme – which has been granted to the British Council by the UK government – will support UK galleries and museums to partner with institutions in Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. UK-based non-profit museums can apply for grants …

History of Place – is a three-year HLF funded project which explores the lives of deaf and disabled people through eight historic locations from a medieval monastery to a 70s terraced house whose creation heralded the beginning of the Independent Living Movement. These are now informing …

EDJCH will run on Sunday 2ndSeptember and again on Sunday 7th – Sunday 14th October inclusive. The National Heritage Open Days will run from 6th – 9th and 13th – 16th September this year, but B’nai B’rith is happy to feature events on any date …

Allchurches Trust [Alliance member], one of the UK’s largest grant-makers, has revealed that over the course of 2017 it gave grants totalling £15.6 million, its largest sum ever, to 1,324 churches, charities and communities across the UK and Ireland. This included £2 million of grants to Methodist …

BAFM is offering its biennial Travel Award. The winners may be either totally committed volunteers of any age (who devote many hours supporting their museum or gallery) or young professionals who are starting their careers in the museum world. Funded travel could be within the …