Summits in Belfast and Fulham Palace
Ian Lush, Chief Executive of the Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF), writes about two recent events. A sunny morning last week in Belfast and off to the magnificent City Hall for a summit on the Built...
View ArticleVote for Gartnavel!
Gill Stewart from Glasgow Building Preservation Trust (GBPT) needs your vote! Little could GBPT have imagined when we applied for an Options Appraisal Grant from the AHF towards testing the re-use of a...
View ArticleHaving a summer break!
Ian Lush, Chief Executive of the Architectural Heritage Fund, explains what is happening next with this blog. Regular readers of this blog will have noticed the gap since the last post. This is...
View ArticleWe’re back! (almost…)
Well, one thing I should have remembered when writing the previous post on this site was never to give a date for the launch of something unless you are 100% certain about it. And yet there I was,...
View ArticleNew publications
There are two new publications I want to draw your attention to this month. First is the Architectural Heritage Fund’s Annual Review for 2012-13, available in PDF form through our (spanking new)...
View ArticleThe ‘Ledbury Places’ Project – What is it and Why Does it Matter?
Chris Ammonds of Zebra Media, marketing and PR consultant for the Ledbury Places project, explains why this multiple asset transfer scheme is a national pilot. The beautiful Herefordshire market town...
View ArticleSocial value and impact
Ian Lush, Chief Executive of the Architectural Heritage Fund, ponders questions of social value and impact. One of the most debated issues in the heritage sector at the moment is the social value and...
View Article“What’s in a name?”
AHF Chief Executive Ian Lush examines some meanings and interpretations… So wrote Shakespeare in ‘Romeo and Juliet’, and he continued “that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet”....
View ArticleNew Life in Scotland
The new AHF Projects and Development Officer North, Gordon Barr, introduces himself… I’m delighted to be joining the AHF, although I’ve had a rather odd career path getting here – I studied chemistry,...
View ArticleGoodbye…
Today is my last day at the Architectural Heritage Fund, after 11 years as Chief Executive. I am moving out of the heritage sector for a new challenge at a healthcare charity, which is exciting both...
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