Museums Association Conference 2023: the Power of Museums

The Museums Association hybrid annual Conference 2023 will be held at The Glasshouse (formerly the Sage Gateshead) on 7-9 November 2023, and is also available online for remote attendees. Collections, buildings and people have the power to inspire, engage and enrich the communities that we serve. But with museums facing multiple financial, ethical and practical challenges,…

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UK Government Commits to Consult on Making it Harder to Demolish Locally Important Buildings

The UK Government has committed to consulting on requiring planning permission to demolish unlisted buildings. This was in response to amendments to the Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill to require planning permission for demolishing buildings put forward by Baroness Andrews, Lord Carrington, and Lord Shipley and promoted by the Victorian Society. Currently, most unlisted buildings outside…

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Thaxted Windmill Receives Grant Towards Conservation

Thaxted Windmill Trust Community Interest Company (CIO) has received a grant of £116,902 from The National Lottery Heritage Fund for the development of a project to conserve John Webb’s Mill in Thaxted, Essex. Historic England have provided additional funds of £33,326 for the development of the project, largely towards planning for the structural and millwrighting…

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Canal & River Trust to Campaign Against Proposed Grant Cut

The Canal and River Trust (CRT) has launched a campaign to reverse budget cuts proposed by DEFRA over the summer of 2023. The reduction in the grant funding DEFRA provides amounts to a more than £300 million budget cut in real terms over a 10-year period from 2027. The CRT says that this will threaten…

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AIM’s 2024 ‘State of the Sector’ Survey Now Open

Following on from the Association of Independent Museums’ previous surveys, AIM are keen to assess how museums have fared over the summer holiday period and the impact the current cost of living crisis is having on the museum sector, including industrial sites. The state of the sector survey helps AIM to understand the challenges facing…

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Historic England Technical Tuesday Training Courses for Autumn 2023

Historic England have announced this autumn’s topics for their Technical Tuesday training courses. The free webinars, presented by Historic England’s Technical Conservation Team, provide delegates with an in-depth look at a range of technical conservation issues. The subjects include two industrial heritage-related items: a study of the Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings ground source heat pump project,…

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Historic England Publishes Heritage Crime Guidance Documents

Historic England has published their Heritage Crime Risk Assessment guidance, which outlines how heritage professionals with minimal experience of risk management and crime prevention can assess risks and implement measures to address them. This comes alongside the release of their Heritage Crime Interventions, which aims to help agencies that are responsible for handling heritage crime….

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