Projects contributing to our National Parks could receive a £2,000 boost in recognition of their work thanks to the Campaign for National Parks’ Park Protector Award. The Award, sponsored by Ramblers Holidays Charitable Trust, celebrates the work being done to protect and improve National Parks …
Littering guidance updated to deal with litter from businesses
DEFRA’s guidance on council responsibilities on litter and refuse has been updated with a section on ‘dealing with litter from businesses’ to explain Community Protection Notices and what councils must do with existing street litter control notices. Litter can affect the setting of historic buildings.
200th years anniversary of the Incorporated Church Building Society (ICBS)
The Heritage Alliance’s CEO Lizzie Glithero West was delighted to attend a service at St Pauls to mark the 200th anniversary of the Incorporated Church Building Society (ICBS ) which in 2013 became part of the National Churches Trust [Alliance members]. The ICBS was set …
Next steps for return of Bayeux Tapestry to the UK
A memorandum of understanding signed by the UK Culture Secretary and French Minister of Culture in Paris has set out a period of cross-Channel cooperation between universities and research institutes, who will consider how to use digital technology to make the Tapestry more accessible to …
Mining Institute saved with National Lottery grant
Projects focussing on the industrial heritage of cities and towns across England and Wales have been awarded National Lottery funding to support the regeneration of key buildings, high streets and landscapes. The North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers in central Newcastle, which …
Wildlife and Countryside Link and Greener UK’s Parliamentary Farmers’ Market
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 …