The National Heritage Training Group are running a two-day course aimed at contractors working on traditional buildings. It will consider: How to repair and maintain traditional buildings Relevant legislation and guidance Traditional materials and methods Maintaining safe working practices Registration with the CITB Cskills Awards for AWD053 is included in the course fee and participants…

The 27th BRICK workshop, will focus on governance, project management as it relates to the project objectives of groups involved in heritage regeneration, and using and understanding your Quantity Surveyor. These relevant topics are part of the Prince’s Regeneration Trust’s efforts to help with ensuring a sustainable future for historic buildings and sites. The workshop…

This year’s Tyne and Wear Heritage Forum Annual Conference will be a celebration of the industrial and social heritage of Tyne and Wear and the wider region and will feature: Lessons from the ongoing community projects supported by the Forum Presentations of best practice for local heritage groups Various workshops on themes such as heritage…

As part of its Giving to Heritage programme, the Institute of Fundraising are running a workshop aimed at those interested in offering community shares. The workshop, which, is run in association with The Community Shares Company, will enable people involved in delivering or funding heritage projects to: Understand what are community shares and why they…

Nominations are being sought for Jewson’s ‘Building Better Communities’ funding programme. The firm building providers are offering regional project prizes of £500 to £10,000 and the top regional project will receive £50,000. You can also nominate your Trade Hero who could win £50,000 to help them complete a community project. Nominations close on the 5th…

This practical course, which is part of the Charity Finance Group’s Small Charity Programme, will provide you with useful tools to develop the way small groups or small charities manage basic financial areas. Delegates will learn about essential banking and money management practices and what questions to ask when considering moving to an external financial…

This year’s AIA Conference will be held at Moulton College near Northampton. The conference will begin with a seminar focussing on the contribution of developer-funded projects to industrial archaeology. The opening lecture of the conference proper will be by Brian Giggins on 2000 years of industrial development in Northamptonshire and Milton Keynes, whilst the annual…

The next Association for Transport and Engineering Museums (ABTEM) seminar will be held at the Wheal Martyn Museum, St Austell, Cornwall, and is titled ‘Overexposure- Caring for Objects that have to Stay Outside’ and will deal with the trials and tribulations or looking after objects that sit outside museums. Full details and list of speakers…

The Association for British Transport & Engineering Museums (ABTEM) has recently appointed the International Railway Heritage Consultancy (IRHC) to work with them to produce new guidelines for museums and private collectors with larger and working objects. The guidelines will cover stationary engines, industrial machinery, road vehicles, aircraft, railway vehicles, ships, boats and other working items….

Do you represent a charity which is considering borrowing money to help reduce costs or perhaps as a means of securing effective streams? If so, this advice, which was originally published in The Guardian, might of use to you. Ian Mansfield, Charities Aid Foundation Borrowing is not a last resort: Lending should not be considered…