Salary: £25K FTE 21 hours/week Closing date: Monday 25 March 2019, 12 noon Groundbreaking theatre company Clean Break is seeking a Heritage Project Manager to lead the Company’s 40th Anniversary Heritage Project, which will commence in spring 2019 and run through to late January 2021. …

Location: The Heritage Alliance, 5-11 Lavington Street, London, SE1 0NZ Reporting to: The Chief Executive Hours per week: 35 hours per week, Mondays to Fridays Salary: £32,000 p.a. This is a permanent post with a six-month probationary period. The Heritage Alliance is seeking an outstanding …

The DCMS consultation deals with proposed changes to the Treasure Act 1996. The aim of the Act is to ensure that important archaeological items are preserved in public collections. This consultation seeks to improve the treasure process so that it is more efficient, that it is focused on the …

The Historic Environment Trailblazer is a group of over 50 employers chaired by Historic England. The Government is running a consultation on the suitability of the proposed apprenticeship standards for the sector which is open to all. The consultation ends on 22 March. If you …

Historic England has published a draft Advice Note on minerals extraction and archaeology for consultation. The advice note provides suggestions on managing archaeology as part of mineral development in the English planning process. The document will update and replace The Minerals and Historic Environment Forum …

Ahead of Europe Day on 9th May 2019, the President of Europa Nostra, Maestro Plácido Domingo, invites you to take part in the #Ode2Joy Challenge. Launched in January 2019 for the European Year of Cultural Heritage, it aims to celebrate the shared cultural past which …

A report by Arts Council England has concluded that young people in schools are “overwhelmingly positive” about the process of creative writing. This marks a success for the £1.2m Creative Writing in Schools (CWiS) programme, which aimed to increase the number of high-quality creative writing opportunities in …

Historic Houses [Alliance member] has recently developed a weekly e-bulletin, which offers subscribers the latest news, updates, opportunities and more direct to their inbox. The latest e-bulletin, released on Friday 8 March 2019, features pieces on Chawton House [Alliance member], in honour of International Women’s …

The National Database of Fires in Heritage Buildings has published the most recent figures for July-December 2018. 264 fires have been added to the 2018 database so far, but this number is expected to rise as more fires that occurred during 2018 come to light. The figures …

Richmond House, the Grade II* listed masterpiece, designed by Sir William Whitfield, is set to be largely demolished due to government plans to build a temporary House of Commons while the Palace of Westminster is closed for seven-year refurbishment. Only the entrance front in Whitehall …

Sixteen new crafts have been added to the ‘critically endangered’ category of the Heritage Crafts Association’s Red List of Endangered Crafts. Skills such as withy crab pot making, millwrighting and commercial handmade paper making are now at serious risk of dying out in the next generation. …

Students from West Dean College of Arts and Conservation [Alliance Member] have taken part in 6-8 week placements at world famous museums and collections, including the V&A, Leiden University Library, Lambeth Palace, the Book & Paper Studio (Dundee), Oxford Conservation Consortiums, Bodleian Libraries, the Russell-Cotes Art Gallery …