This interactive webinar on how the heritage sector can engage the mainstream public on climate change includes Alliance members the National Trust and the International National Trusts. The webinar will look at how can we use our resources and skills to play a useful, educational role on climate change? Most importantly, what kind of climate…
The Inland Waterways Association [Alliance member] has launched a new campaign to encourage everyone to get involved in controlling invasive Himalayan balsam. In addition to its series of work parties organised by various IWA branches around the country, IWA wants to see more individuals helping to control the plant following calls in national newspapers and…
Rethinking Relationships is a report from the first phase of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation’s Inquiry into the Civic Role of Arts Organisations. The report, which was produced following extensive research and collaboration with those working within the arts sector, highlights the extent and diversity of the civic role arts organisations are currently playing in the…
Historic England raised £15,000 to restore Peter Lazlo Peri’s Festival of Britain sculpture ‘The Sunbathers’. Historic England thanks its backers for giving so generously, including the Heritage Lottery Fund [Affiliate member], Nesta and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport who provided match-funding.
The Sunbathers is now on public display at the Southbank Centre.
Theatres Trust Conference 17: Theatres & Placemaking will take place on Tuesday 17 October at the Lyric Hammersmith, London, discussing the role of theatres and wider cultural infrastructure within placemaking. The conference will examine and debate a number of issues around this vital topic, including the contribution theatre buildings can make towards the regeneration, economic…
The Scottish Government has published an analysis of responses to the consultation on Place, People and Planning, the review of the Scottish planning system, accompanied by a position statement on proposals it plans on taking forward. The Scottish Government is consulting on elements to be taken forward in it’s Planning Bill which aims to strengthen…
A new story by Michael Morpurgo, the author of War Horse, will be performed to mark the centenary of the Battle of Passchendaele, Culture Secretary Karen Bradley announced. The work has been specially written for the national commemorations on Sunday 30 July. His live reading of the story will be accompanied by an appearance by…
The Canal and Rivers Trust [Alliance member] protects our waterways’ heritage and has launched Seven Wonders of the Waterways.
These include Thomas Telford and William Jessop’s awe-inspiring Pontcysyllte Aqueduct (a Scheduled Ancient Monument; a Grade I Listed structure and a World Heritage Site), Caen Hill Lock Flight; Barton Swing Aqueduct and Anderton Boat Lift.
Civic Voice [Alliance member] volunteers in Altrincham have produced the video below as a simple, effective, way to demonstrate how we can all play a part in celebrating conservation areas. It is a celebration of Altrincham’s 9 conservation areas as part of National Civic Day.
Arts Minister John Glen has placed a temporary export bar on a drawing of the Schmadribach Waterfall, by Austrian Romantic artist Joseph Anton Koch. This provides an opportunity to keep it in the country if a buyer can match the asking price of £68,750. Dating from around 1793, the work is typical of the highly…
