Historic Towns and Villages Forum [Alliance member] has launched a survey about the quality of our experiences in towns and city centres and is seeking responses concerning the challenges of developing the visitor economy. From their seminars on ‘Supporting Historic High Streets’, they have found that the …

The Heritage Volunteering Group has created a survey to explore the scale, nature and impact of heritage volunteering. They have said that over the past ten years there has been little research done into ths area, which has limited our understanding of the impact volunteers …

The Department for Digital, Culture Media and Sport (DCMS) is conducting a tailored review of Historic England. Tailored reviews are central to the Government’s Public Body Reform Programme. Their purpose is to challenge and seek assurance of the continuing need, efficiency and good governance of public bodies. …

Historic England have produced an advice note on ways to satisfy the requirement in the National Planning Policy Framework for applicants for heritage-related consents to provide information on heritage significance to help local planning authorities in making decisions on the impact of proposals for change …

Historic England have produced a publication that provides advice for managing archaeology as part of mineral development in the English planning process. This document will update and replace the version produced in 2008 by the Minerals and Historic Environment Forum (MHEF), Minerals Extraction and Archaeology: A Practice …

This new document produced by Historic England is intended to provide guidance for the owners and managers of buildings with stained glass and other decorative windows. It explains how to work with professional conservation advisors to recognise deterioration caused by environmental problems, interpret the underlying causes, and …

MHCLG has published a consultation on the decapitalisation rate used in the business rates calculation for properties valued using the contractor’s method. This technical consultation concerns whether the government should prescribe decapitalisation rates for 2021 and, if so, how the rates should be prescribed. Question 4 is of …

DCMS is in the process of building an evidence-based understanding of employment and skills in the tourism and hospitality sector. As part of this they have commissioned Economic Insight to explore barriers to skills development from the perspective of both employees and employers. As part …

University College London (UCL) has just introduced a bursary, funded by Ecclesiastical Insurance [Alliance sponsor], which offers up to £20,000 (to cover the cost of fees and a stipend) is to enable heritage professionals to study on the Sustainable Heritage MSc. The bursary is available …

The Healthy London Partnership have created a clickable map of Social Prescribing accross London with help from AgileVentures and HLP Proactive Care. The map allows you to click on your London borough and see what Social Prescribing activities are going on in your area, along …

The Charity Retail Association has shared its fears about the future of several of its members’ charity shops in the Greater Manchester area, following the Greater Manchester Combined Authority’s recent move to severely restrict free charity tipping. Charity shops in Greater Manchester could now be …

An excavation, undertaken by Wessex Archaeology [Alliance member] uncovered an unusual Underground Monitoring Post (UGMP), dating back to the Cold War. Archaeologists excavating the site in Berkshire as part of the Wokingham Borough Council’s Major Highways Programme, uncovered the post after an anomaly was spotted …