The IHBC welcomes 2018 by sharing some NewsBlog highlights from 2017 and, as we look ahead to a busy new year, why not make a resolution to help our work as well as yours: Get your colleagues access to the best free heritage CPD by encouraging them to subscribe to IHBC’s 6 month NewsBlog offer – just have them SIGN UP HERE
IHBC Director Seán O’Reilly said: ‘2017 has been a busy but successful year, as our NewsBlog selection below confirms, and 2018 is already shaping up to be even more hectic. So do please help us – and yourself – with a special New Year resolution, to get your non-IHBC colleagues to delve into heritage more seriously with a 6 month CPD taster of our weekly ‘NewsBlogs’ news service.’
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IHBC’s 2017 in Newsblogs
January: IHBC’s own Conservation Areas 50th Anniversary fund: first award to Wales
IHBC announces first award to Wales from our Conservation Area 50th Anniversary fund
February: Manchester 2017 Annual School booking opens
IHBC shows even more backbone in Manchester as our 2017 School checks out transport infrastructure & civilisation: 22-4 June, with bursaries too…
March: IHBC Director to open joint CIOB-National Trust conference, Somerset House
April: IHBC Yearbook 2017 launched, introduced by the HLF’s Ros Kerslake
May: National, pan-membership development forum, ‘Council+’, meets in Birmingham
June: Manchester School, AGM, joint ‘Conservation Professional Practice Principles’ launch; IHBC ‘Groups’ launch… and all the rest…
July: New ‘Conservation Wiki’ Home Page launched
August (1): ‘Conservation and Urbanism’ Context issued
August (2): IHBC ToolBox Guidance Note on ‘Townscape’ issued, addressing England’s national policy gaps
IHBC’s new Note on ‘Townscape’: Addressing knowledge gaps in heritage policy development
September: IHBC’s annual research on local authority capacity published, funded by Historic England
October: IHBC offers first private sector CPD membership training session, with CgMS
November: IHBC’s new-style Course Connection Day 2017
December (1): IHBC’s joint project seeks writer for ‘Guidelines for Cultural Heritage Impact Assessment’, issued as NewsBlog’s weekly HESPR ‘Director’s Pick’
December (2): IHBC welcomes Carole Souter CBE as our Gus Astley Student Award judge for 2017
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