Five towns and cities shortlisted for UK City of Culture 2021

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Coventry, Paisley, Stoke-on-Trent, Sunderland and Swansea have been shortlisted to host UK City of Culture 2021, Minister for Arts, Heritage and Tourism, John Glen has announced. Hull is the current City of Culture and its programme includes 365 days of cultural events. It is estimated that …

Backing Beauty Commission closes

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Last week the Heritage Alliance attended a Backing Beauty reception on Monday at which the Rt Hon John Hayes MP, Minister of State for Transport gave a speech.  Dame Helen Ghosh of the National Trust [Alliance member] also spoke. You can see highlights of the evening …

#CultureisDigital launches

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The Heritage Alliance attended the launch of #CultureIsDigital at the Natural History Museum. Ministers Matt Hancock and John Glen both stressed the importance of the cultural and digital world mixing. John Glen stated that he wanted to use the #CultureisDigital consultation ‘to come up with tangible outputs …

UK Government renews its commitment to return Nazi-looted art

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The UK Government will call for stronger efforts to return Nazi-looted art to its original owners at the first European conference dedicated to the issue in five years. Hundreds of experts from the UK, Germany, France, Holland, Austria and across the globe will gather in London in …

Social Investment Consultancy and Support Sessions

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The main workshop programme has ended but other training still remains. One-to-one-support sessions: Free one-hour sessions with one of our expert trainers. Find out more and book. Social Investment support sessions: Free one-hour sessions with our Social Investment partners. Find out more or complete this survey to book. In-house workshops: …

Heritage 2020 Action Plans published

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All five Heritage 2020 working groups have now published action plans and these can be viewed on each group’s page alongside information on the groups’ most recent meetings. The working groups are: Capacity building: The Capacity Building group is currently focusing on apprenticeships as opportunities for skills …

World Heritage UK joins the Heritage Alliance

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The Heritage Alliance is delighted to welcome World Heritage UK as a member. World Heritage UK is a new membership charity set up in 2015 to undertake networking, advocacy and promotion for the UK’s 31 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, and the Tentative List sites progressing towards …