Heritage Skills in Conservation
An independent sector survey… (2025)

From Crafts in Crisis to Rubbish in Retrofit:
IHBC’s 5 Commitments to Help Heritage Skills in Conservation

The Value of Heritage:
First Report of the APPG on Conservation, Places & People (2022)

National Audit Office Report: Value for money - Energy efficiency installations… (Oct 2025)

National Audit Office: Weak controls and oversight blamed for faulty home installations under energy efficiency scheme

BBC: 30,000 homes fitted with botched insulation

IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (resident’s) doorstep’: ‘Botched insulation means mushrooms grow on my walls’

IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’: BD on the ‘litany of failures’ in external insulation captured by National Audit Office (NAO)

Licensing builders must happen following ECO debacle, says FMB

IHBC supports ‘CUT the VAT’ budget submission to Osborne

IHBC & partners: VAT relief update

IHBC & partners sponsor ‘VAT-relief on housing repairs’ research & Westminster launch

Winners of the 2024 Heritage Crafts Awards announced

Heritage Crafts Red List of Endangered Crafts 2025 published

IHBC joins 33 leading organisations calling for £6.8M in urgent funding to support Planning Schools

The Heritage Alliance

Built Environment Forum Scotland (BEFS)

SPAB: The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings

COTAC (with the Edinburgh Group)

The Sustainable Traditional Buildings Alliance

Conservation Wiki

Historic England

Historic Environment Scotland

CADW

Department for Communities Northern Ireland

The National Trust

English Heritage

National Trust for Scotland

CITB

Heritage Crafts

Climate Heritage Network

ICOMOS-UK

IHBC Climate Change Hub & Knowledge Base