Businesses, individuals and charities are being headhunted to support a unique project to restore and conserve some of the thousands of dilapidated field barns in the Yorkshire Dales National Park....
Plans to merge organisations such as CABE and English Heritage into a superquango are being drawn up by the government under radical cost-cutting measures.
The Heritage at Risk Register helps us to identify the most threatened buildings, archeological sites and landscapes in this most distinctive of English Regions. Heritage at Risk 2010 Yorkshire...
Channel 4's Restoration Man is set to return for a second series and is currently on the lookout for owners of unusual historic building restoration projects to take part.
YHHEF (the Yorkshire and Humber Historic Environment Forum) have launched their new website, the latest micro site to join the hub supported by Yorkshire Futures. Formed in 2002, the YHHEF...
The National Heritage Training Group (NHTG) has been awarded the largest single amount of funding of the 54 successful projects in the new £17million Heritage Lottery Fund Skills for the...
The Victorian Society is calling on historians, enthusiasts and local campaigners across the country to nominate buildings that are at risk in their local area. Buildings don’t have to...
Former Pulp front-man Jarvis Cocker been working with The National Trust to produce an album of sounds entitled National Trust: Time to Think. The album, which is available to download...
Research conducted by the National Heritage Training Group found that there is a shortage of building professionals accredited to work in the conservation sector. If you are an architect,...
Sustainable procurement is fast becoming a big issue for business, but what does it really mean? Could it reduce costs and make a difference to your performance? From stationery to machinery, every organisation procures goods and services and sustainable procurement is a topic that is relevant to all sectors and business types.
Yorkshire and the Humber Forum is organising a conference - 'Big Society Unplugged' - in Sheffield on 11 November, at which Nick Hurd MP, Minister for Civil Society, will be the key speaker.
We need your input to produce a Big Manifesto for the Big Society, to present to the Minister at the conference.
We are holding a consultation session in Leeds on 6 September when you will be able to input ideas, opinions, suggestions, and concerns about the Big Society, and learn more about how the Forum is engaging with it.
Key seminar on a key aspect of policy by the new coalition government on devolving powers from the centre: How best can we deliver regional economic growth in a period of deficit reduction?
How does culture fit within the Big Society, localism, and making neighbourhoods better? Is there room for culture within the the local authority improvement agenda? How can creativity help to engage people? In lean times, what is the argument for embedding culture within renewal work? Is the role of the arts in public realm bigger than public art?
This one day conference, supported by Arts Council England, will draw upon a successful and nationally unique three year programme called ‘Creative Places’ in Sheffield.
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