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Melting Snow and Rivers in Flood: Mitigating the Impact of a Warming Climate on Uganda’s Heritage.
Posted on November 11, 2020 by Emma Taylor in Africa Region, INTO News, UncategorizedThe International National Trusts Organisation is delighted to announce a new project focusing on preserving heritage at risk from climate change in partnership with the Cross-Cultural Foundation of Uganda. The project is generously supported by the British Council Cultural Protection Fund’s Disaster and Climate Preparedness round for £76,447. Vanishing snow and rising […]
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Incubator programme launches #GrowingNewTrusts
Posted on September 30, 2020 by Catherine Leonard in Catherine's Page, INTO NewsA blog by Catherine Leonard, Secretary-General This week, we launched our INTO Incubator! Originally planned for March 2020, we postponed first to September and then took the programme online. So, on Monday we welcomed delegates from all over the world into our virtual learning lab! From Jamaica to Syria; Albania to Singapore; Nigeria to Haiti […]
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Sharing histories of slavery and colonialism (22 September 2020)
Posted on September 22, 2020 by Catherine Leonard in Catherine's Page, INTO NewsToday, the National Trust (England, Wales and Northern Ireland) has published a report exploring connections between historic places, colonialism and slavery. The research was commissioned last September as part of a broader commitment to represent, share and interpret these links at relevant National Trust places. Here at INTO, we welcome this report and the chance […]
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Secretariat News (May – August 2020)
Posted on August 25, 2020 by Catherine Leonard in Catherine's Page, INTO NewsIf this post mis-displays, please download a pdf here. Latest news from the INTO Secretariat I’m writing this report for our Trustees meeting on 8 September. We had hoped to gather in person, as guests of our INTO Ambassador, His Highness The Maharaja Gaj Singh II Of Marwar-Jodhpur. But like so many things, this meeting […]
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Impact of COVID-19 on heritage sites of the world’s National Trusts
Posted on August 4, 2020 by Catherine Leonard in Catherine's Page, COVID-19, INTO Newsby David J. Brown, Principal at Bearden Brown LLC Monuments in nature are not always what they seem. Antonio Gaudi, working in Barcelona in the early twentieth century, took huge inspiration from the natural environment. Moreover, his organic architectural style is echoed in his approach to project management. Gaudi was not one to be constrained […]
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Learn and share (Weekly update, 17 July 2020)
Posted on July 17, 2020 by Catherine Leonard in Catherine's Page, COVID-19, INTO NewsA blog by Catherine Leonard, Secretary-General This week, we held our quarterly teleconference of the INTO Board of Trustees. We begin our meetings with a round-up of what’s been going on at everyone’s organisations. We call this our ‘Learn and share’ and it’s a really nice way to take the temperature of our whole membership, […]
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Learn and Share (Weekly blog, 1 May 2019)
Posted on May 1, 2020 by Catherine Leonard in Catherine's Page, INTO NewsA blog by Catherine Leonard, Secretary-General This week, we held our quarterly teleconference of the INTO Board of Trustees. We begin every call with a round-up of what’s been going on at everyone’s organisations. Since our last formal Board meeting, the world has changed completely. So needless to say, this ‘Learn and Share’ focussed […]
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Secretariat News (February – April 2020)
Posted on April 24, 2020 by Catherine Leonard in Catherine's Page, COVID-19, INTO NewsLatest news from the INTO Secretariat It’s only just over a month ago that the World Health Organisation declared Covid-19 a pandemic. And since then the world has changed completely. For many, this has been a terrible and painful time and our hearts go out to our members, supporters and friends affected by the crisis. […]
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Virtual Visits: Ideas from the INTO Family
Posted on April 20, 2020 by Alex Bishop in COVID-19, Innocastle, INTO News, News From Members, UncategorizedSee the world’s sites from your sofa with these 14 virtual visits, selected from amongst the responses to World Heritage Day. We asked and you responded, sharing drone-shot footage, online tours and virtual walk-throughs that together show how heritage trusts globally are responding to COVID-19. 1 The sun is out for this visit to a Valencian […]
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Re-engaging Historic Sites (Covid-19 Update, 17 April 2020)
Posted on April 17, 2020 by Catherine Leonard in Catherine's Page, COVID-19, INTO NewsLatest news from the INTO Secretariat This week, I’m sharing details of our discussion yesterday about re-engaging historic sites. Our task force brought together fourteen representatives of INTO member organisations to pool their experiences. A number of common themes emerged: Corona hit most of us when we were just gearing up for a new […]
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