The Conservation Trust has been granted £14,000 of funding from English Heritage to carry out an architect’s appraisal at the 17th-century Bells Farm. It’s great news for the farmhouse, which is a Grade II*-listed and in urgent need of restoration ...
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If you like to support charity when buying Christmas gifts here are some ideas: For starters every time you use this http://buy.at/birminghamconservation we get a donation with each thing you buy. (Have a look here for a full list of traders and ...
read moreWe’ve been members of Heritage Link for some time, appreciating how they are able to act on behalf of a wide range of heritage organisations. This week they launched the Heritage Manifesto. You can download it as a pdf here, but I ...
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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 ...
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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