We’re recruiting to our Board! We want to provide the best possible strategic leadership and support to LP&GT to really make an impact. We want to make sure our Director and her staff can rely on us to help them to take the organisation forward. …

The Oxford Diocesan Advisory Committee (DAC) are currently seeking an Assistant Church Buildings Officer to help support the long term sustainable future of the historic church buildings across the diocese and help individual congregations to care for them and adapt them for today’s needs. Working …

The Prince’s Foundation and QEST (the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust) are collaborating to deliver a training programme in traditional building skills, linking short courses and workshops with a series of live training builds on heritage sites across the UK and are recruiting now. START DATE …

The Albanian-American Development Foundation (AADF) was created with the support of USAID. The Foundation’s mission is to make a meaningful contribution to Albania’s economic growth by making social investments related to entrepreneurship, education, leadership development and support for cultural and eco-tourism. Under its Cultural and …

Following advice from the Gambling Commission on a wide range of options, the Government is consulting on amending the limits for society lotteries in the following four areas: ● Large society lotteries: sales limits for individual draws ● Large society lotteries: prize limits for Individual …

Historic England has undertaken a substantial update to its guidance on Piling and Archaeology. The main reasons for these changes were to align the document better with the NPPF and with Historic England’s recent guidance on Preserving Archaeological Remains. The amendments place a greater emphasis …

DEFRA is consulting on its Fisheries white paper, which lays out their vision for the marine environment and the fishing industry post-Brexit. Heritage is conspicuous by its absence in the paper, so the consultation provides an opportunity to promote its importance. Of interest from a …

Women and Power, presented by BBC broadcaster Kirsty Wark, will hear from National Trust house stewards, curators, volunteers and experts. Listeners will be invited to delve into unique and seldom documented accounts of the events that led up to 1918, and beyond to 1928 when …

The Policy Exchange has published a report ‘Building more, building beautiful’, which asks that the new generations of buildings and homes ‘meet the aesthetic needs of citizens, communities and the nation as a whole, both now and in the future.

The Association for Consultancy and Engineering’s has published a new research report, ‘Unlocking Housing: Invigorating local communities through placemaking’, which argues that only a radical change in approach will ensure we’re able to tackle the housing crisis. It states that ‘improved community support is the …

The English Civic Museums Network published a ‘Think Piece’ on ‘The Future of Civic Museums’. They noted that civic museums could play a vital role as a ‘catalyst’ for bringing about ‘a new enlightenment’ to strengthen ties across communities in a world focused on the …

The heritage sector is a fundamental part of the UK’s economy and culture, and the use of digital technology (such as Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality) has the potential to open up historical sites and museums beyond the barriers posed by language, culture, location, mobility …