Barges on the Birmingham Canal by slack12 on flickr (click picture for original) This blog post from Stephen Bubb, the CEO of ACEVO caught my eye: I have had discussions with British Waterways about their interest in becoming a third sector organisation a currently ...
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Town Hall Birmingham, photo by Tim Ellis, please click it for the original. Those who keep track of this website will know that the trust had a set back this year. Losing the funding for the Coffin Works punched has left us keen ...
read moreThe West Midlands Regional Observatory reports: Research launched by English Heritage has found a significant link between an adult’s ‘sense of place’ and the concentration of historic environment assets within their area. Sense of Place and Social Capital and the Historic Built Environment (pdf, ...
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You might like to know that Heritage Link has updated and relaunched it’s funding directory. The organisation had brought together dozens of different sources in one searchable form just here. Use it and good luck! —- You can donate to Birmingham Conservation Trust here or ...
read moreAdmittedly we’re coming to the end of the month but Heritage Link reminded us that the Heritage Lottery Fund is 15 years old this month: HLF has made a difference across the UK – some areas of funding include : regeneration where ...
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Central Library in Birmingham by Rory Munro - click for original. The government has announced that the John Madin designed Birmingham Central Library will not be listed – which means that the building can now be demolished as part of Birmingham’s Big City ...
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Birmingham Central Library. Photo: Matthew Black Tomorrow we are all expecting to find out the fate of Birmingham’s famous Central library. Will it be listed, and so protected from demolition, or not? Culture minister Margaret Hodge has the final say and it is ...
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Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (BMAG) has won £4.8 million worth of lottery money to create a Birmingham History wing which will look into the city’s development and the history of its people, it was announced today. We would like to congratulate the ...
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Birmingham Conservation Trust joined twitter a few weeks ago. We’ve been able to have some very enjoyable conversations with people use the service. This morning Najm Clayton (who’s is doing a photostudy of Art Deco in Birmingham) asked us this question: Najm's question ...
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Last week Jon Bounds and I spent a night in London as part of some work we were doing. Both of us booked our hotel through the Birmingham Conservation Trust web shop: www.buy.at/birminghamconservation As a result the Conservation Trust took a proportion of each ...
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