IHBC NORTH WEST BRANCH DAY CONFERENCE 2018

Thursday 18th October 2018

Liverpool Medical Institution and Conference Centre
114 Mount Pleasant
Liverpool L3 5SR

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This year’s conference focusses upon the many challenges faced in the conservation of historic places of worship. These buildings are used by a wide range of denominations and faiths, including churches and chapels, meeting houses, synagogues, gurdawaras, temples, mandirs and mosques. An increasing number of secular buildings are now also being used by faith groups, such as former schools and cinemas. These buildings often have a key presence in the wider historic environment, contributing positively to the quality of the local townscape and a sense of place as well as embodying evidential, historical, aesthetic and communal values.

Managing places of worship to ensure their long term preservation and ongoing use whilst minimising harm to their significance can be a considerable challenge. This may require balancing evolving faith practices, congregational expectations, and accommodating a wider range of activities alongside ongoing maintenance and historic fabric repair. The conference will consider different ways in which this balance can be achieved in order to support their ongoing use as places of worship, particularly where there is a need to make physical changes to the fabric or install new facilities for community use.

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IHBC LONDON BRANCH DAY CONFERENCE
Creative Conservation: Partnerships & Public Value

Thursday 4th October 2018

Royal College of Physicians, 11 St Andrews Place
Regent’s Park, London NW1 4LE

creativeconservation.ihbc.org.uk

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It is claimed in some quarters that the conservation battle has been won. Exemplary developments such as those at Kings Cross show how a conservation-led approach can bring both private and public benefits. But this is no reason to sit on our heritage laurels. There are still many who are sceptical about the value of the historic built environment. Our challenges range from continuing austerity, the disposal of public assets to the pressure for more housing.

How are we adapting and changing to meet these challenges, and what creative means are there to keep our profession at the forefront of protection of the historic environment? In this, the fourteenth of IHBC’s London Conferences, we will be looking at how national organisations such as Historic England and the National Trust are modernising their agendas; how funding bodies are responding to needs in the third sector and how we can do more to promote the sector.

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4 October 2018
Carlisle

Join us for an in-depth, accessible look at the structural side of building conservation, from philosophy and techniques to causes and prevention.

A full day with case studies and discussion, guided by Ian Hume, DIC CEng MIStructE DiplConsAA IHBC, Former Head of Conservation Engineering at English Heritage.

To book your place, please email the following details to Jane Walshe Jane.Walshe@carlisle.gov.uk :

– Delegate name
– Organisation
– Postal address
– Contact telephone
– Email address

Please send Jane a purchase order addressed to Carlisle City Council against which she can raise an invoice for £25.
Directions to Carlisle Civic Centre, and travel/parking options, can be found here  

Further details on the day and bookings HERE

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22 November 2018
Newcastle

IHBC is holding another Membership Application Training Event with our Branches- the main aim of which is to assist people in upgrading their membership from either Affiliate/Associate to Full membership.

The event will be held at Lichfields, St Nicholas Building, St Nicholas Street, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 1RF.

There will be a presentation from Kate Kendall, IHBC Education, Training & Standards Liaison Officer followed by small group discussions.

Kate Kendall said: ‘These events are a great way for prospective applicants to find out how to understand their skills, knowledge and experience in the context of IHBC membership criteria and accreditation.  And all this is free too, offered to anyone interested in IHBC membership as part of the IHBC’s charitable support for the care of the built and historic environment.’

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To book your FREE place please email Kate Kendall LETS@ihbc.org.uk

With thanks to Lichfields for supporting this event 

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29 September 2018
Leeds

A Workshop led by Alan Gardner BSc (Hons), MRICS, SPAB Lethaby Scholar, Principal & Head of Heritage Asset Consultancy, Arcadis entitled: “‘Philosophy Into Practice: 2 case studies (All Souls, Bolton and Gorton Monastery Manchester) that consider the philosophical and technical and examines, ‘where does honesty become rudeness?’

Followed by the IHBC Yorkshire AGM at 12.15pm.

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