The National Lottery Heritage Fund has resumed accepting small and medium project funding applications for it’s Grants for Heritage programme and launched an interest-free loans pilot. The project funding – for grants between £3,000 to £100,000 – will provide financial assistance for organisations working with …
SPAB Spring Lecture Series 2021: Transformations Part II
SPAB [Alliance Member] has launched a new series of online talks continuing their theme of transformation. Through a mixture of recent projects and current thinking about heritage, sustainability and conservation, they consider physical change and new uses for old buildings on the one hand and, on …
A Jewish Jesus: Art and Faith in the Shadow of World War II
St John’s Waterloo [Alliance Member] is hosting a symposium, exploring Jewish refugee artists who worked for the Church in post-war England. The event will feature academics in this emerging field as well as the direct descendants of artists, including Hans Feibusch, Naomi Blake, John Ivor Allenby …
Association for Heritage Interpretation – Online Course
Heritage Interpretation Online – This online course brings together heritage learning and interpretation professionals to share practice, ideas and approaches, and work through the challenges we mutually face. More information available from the AHI website. This will take place every Wednesday at 10:00 GMT from 13th January to …
Listed Property Show – New Dates
The Listed Property Owners Club [Alliance member] has unfortunately had to cancel their Listed Property Show, which was scheduled to take place in February, due to Coronavirus. The next Listed Property Show will take place on 5th & 6th February 2022.
Climate Change and Historic Places
Kellogg College, Oxford University [Alliance member] and the Historic Towns Forum are hosting two webinars exploring how climate change and historic places interact, as well as the new charter Heritage Declares. They will ask if the sector is doing enough to promote the sustainability of reuse, how …
AIM – Hallmarks at Home Lecture Series 2021
AIM [Heritage member] are pleased to announce the first Hallmarks at Home webinars of 2021, covering a range of brand new topics. The topics are as follows: Tackling inequalities – 11am Tuesday 5 January – this workshop supports AIM’s new Tackling Inequalities Hallmark and looks at how …
The Big Christmas Carol Service
The Churches Conservation Trust [Alliance member], in association with the Royal School of Church Music, is excited to present “The Big Christmas Carol Service” with a very special introduction from their President, HRH the Prince of Wales. Recorded in the beautiful All Saints’ church, Cambridge, …
Thames Historic Places Lectures
Nine Historic Places, linked by the Thames, have joined together to celebrate their landscape, history and luminaries. Marble Hill House has joined with Pope’s Grotto, Hogarth’s House, Turners House, Chiswick House, Strawberry Hill, Boston Manor, Orleans Gallery, Ham House to present a series of lectures, which will …
Proposed Changes to SSSI Condition Reporting
Natural England is seeking views on their proposal to changes the measurement used when condition reporting on SSSIs. The new proposal moves away from a unit or area-based assessment towards one which measures the condition of a particular feature across the whole site. You can view …
Stonehenge Illuminated to Honour Eight Heritage Heroes
This week Stonehenge, part of English Heritage [Alliance Member], was illuminated with projections of eight individuals from heritage organisations across the UK. Each person selected has been recognised as going above and beyond to keep heritage projects running during the pandemic, with their work supported …
Support for Community Businesses in Churches
National charity, Plunkett Foundation, has received £200,000 funding from Allchurches Trust [Alliance member], to enable a specialist support service to provide the bespoke advice and support needed to encourage new community businesses to thrive in places of worship. Read more here. The Plunkett Foundation also published guidance on …