Ecclesiastical’s Heritage Heroes celebrate its 10th Anniversary Whether fundraising for their local churches or restoring a 19th century water mill houses, volunteers are crucial for the protection of England’s heritage. Conservators and fundraisers, trustees and campaigners, visitor guides and customer assistants – the heritage volunteers are more …
Historic Religious Buildings Alliance Upcoming Events
‘Planning and Managing Major Buildings Projects’ 21 November 2019 at Holy Trinity Church, Central Leeds Organised by HRBA in partnership with Purcell Architects, the day covers the management of all stages of a building project in a place of worship, from developing your vision through …
Reaching For Net Zero?
The Heritage Alliance is happy to announce the topic of our Annual Debate: “Reaching For Net Zero?”. This years’ debate will focus on the relationship between heritage and the environment. At a time when countries around the world, including the UK, are making commitments to …
Guest Editors
This week’s edition of Update was jointly edited by Karen Muperere, Janée Gagnon and Eve Farah who are all interning with the Heritage Alliance over the summer. Karen is currently studying History at St John’s College, Oxford, Janée is a student of Asian Studies and Classical …
Giving To Heritage
Giving to Heritage was The Heritage Alliance’s exciting training programme for fundraisers in the heritage sector, which ended in 2017, but its legacy led to many successful heritage projects and initiatives (see the full report on Giving to Heritage programme here). Working in partnership with the …
Alliance Members – Send Us Your Beautiful Heritage Photos!
As we are in the process of developing a new website, we would like to include more images that showcase the work of our 130+ members and all the heritage they represent across the country, from historic buildings to steam trains. We are therefore asking …
What Would You Like To See On Our New Website?
As you may know, we are developing a new website for the Heritage Alliance. This will ensure that our work and the work of our members is shared in a more helpful and user-friendly way. The new website will also contribute to our future work …
THA – British Council Travel Grant Scheme: Travel Reports
The 2018-19 Heritage Alliance and British Council Travel Grant Scheme enabled recipients to undertake an international visit to meet with colleagues and share skills, expertise and experience. The Travel Grant Scheme also supported UK heritage organisations who are starting to develop mutually beneficial international projects …
Join Us At Our Upcoming Events!
The Heritage Alliance is running an number of events this year. 17 September: Creative Industries Event: Celebrating the launch of our Heritage and the Creative Industries Report, this event will showcase successful collaborations between heritage sites and organisations in the creative industries, sharing best practice …
#HeritageChat
July’s #HeritageChat provided an opportunity for Heritage 2020 to gather feedback on their newly published scoping study into the nature and strength of collaboration between the heritage sector and UK higher education institutions. It asked participants to respond to the findings but also share their …
Let’s Get Digital! – Digital Skills Survey of the Heritage Sector
In light of The National Lottery Heritage Fund recently starting a Digital Campaign to support organisations in the Heritage sector, the Heritage Alliance is conducting a survey in partnership with Media Trust, Charity Digital and Naomi Korn Associates to understand the current digital skills needs …
Call for Case Studies – International Work
Have you or your organisation carried out work internationally? The Heritage Alliance is keen to hear about it. We are currently looking for written case studies from our members to showcase during our International Event. If you are interested in being involved or if you …