The Cultural Cities Enquiry, which came together in March 2018 to develop a new model to help culture flourish in cities in the context of diminishing public funding in UK, has published its final report. The enquiry aimed to consider how we can radically increase …

Changes at the UK border in 60 seconds (video) provides an overview of actions that organisations need to take to prepare in the event of a no deal scenario. Here’s the Culture version. UK nationals travelling to the EU: essential information If the UK leaves the …

Historic England is inviting historic environment sector organisations to participate in their annual programme to help diversify the heritage workforce in England so that it is more representative of the wider population. Historic England has been been running a training placement scheme for university students …

The Heritage Alliance, with support from the British Council, is delighted to offer travel grants to support UK heritage professionals to develop mutually beneficial international projects and partnerships for their organisations. This welcome scheme was one of the recommendations in the Heritage Alliance’s 2018 international report. …

Join us for this unique opportunity to learn about heritage specific legal issues with the Heritage Alliance Legal Partner BWB LLP. Topics will depend on attendees but could include: Gift Aid issues – can you gift aid memberships or tickets? Donations to heritage organisations and …

The Heritage Alliance has written to the Secretary of State Michael Gove with a paper setting out how a positive Environment Bill might deliver for heritage.

The Heritage Alliance is delighted to announce that the Honor Frost Foundation Steering Committee on Underwater Cultural Heritage has joined the Alliance. The Steering Group provides advice to the Honor Frost Foundation (HFF) and helps to shape its policy towards Underwater Cultural Heritage (UCH). The Steering Committee …

Our website update is gathering speed this year so we would like to hear from our website users on how they use our current website and what they would like to see in a new version. We have created a simple survey to allow visitors …

Following our objections to the Government’s plans to introduce new permitted rights, we have signed an open letter from the Local Government Association which asks the Secretary of State for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government not to pursue proposals to allow for demolition of existing …

January’s #HeritageChat was led by CIfA’s Voluntary and Community Archaeology Group. It explored how infrastructure projects (e.g. HS2, A14, Tideway) can be used to connect communities with place. Twitter-ers discussed when (at what stage in a project) there’s greatest potential for engaging communities, with most …

Does your heritage organisation work in partnership with the creative industries? Have you commissioned a piece of art or theatre, or told your stories through an augmented reality or virtual reality experience? If so, we’d love to hear more about it for a report The …

As many of you may have heard at Heritage Day, the Alliance is putting together a report on the important role of heritage and heritage organisations in underpinning and supporting the creative industries. As we move towards producing the report, we are looking for sponsorship …