HRH Princess Dana Firas and the UK Ambassador to Jordan visited As-Salt to inspect the restoration work at Bayt Al-Jaghbeer as a part of #Withstanding_Change Project.

British Council International National Trusts Organisation (INTO) UK in Jordan 🇬🇧🇯🇴
#climatechange #restoration #PNT

People who accidentally found their doppelgängers in museums - a thread 🧵

Over 1,500 years ago, this church was hewn into a vertical cliff face 650 feet above ground - and it's still in use today.

A thread of churches in astonishing places... 🧵

Lovely piece in today’s ⁦Country Life⁩ about ⁦International National Trusts Organisation (INTO)⁩ - the charity I’m proud to chair for a little while longer. With (now) 100 members we are global force for good ⁦National Trust⁩ ⁦Catherine Leonard⁩

One of our historic environment team was recently lucky enough to attend International National Trusts Organisation (INTO)’s ‘Withstanding change’ project meeting in Cairo, held at Egyptian Heritage Rescue Foundation’s Bayt al-Razzaz in the medieval heart of the city.

Read how historic properties in England and Australia and their managers John and Justin, are forging deeper connections thanks to International National Trusts Organisation (INTO) grants.

NT Cragside
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Happy memories of another full year at International National Trusts Organisation (INTO)! Well done and thanks to the brilliant team, all our wonderful trustees, volunteers supporters, donors and members without whom none of this could have happened 👏🙏 Here's to 2024!

Proud to be part of the #CultureAtCOP28 effort!

Are you in the #UKOverseasTerritories & have an idea for a small #environmental project that needs up to £50k funding? 💭Would your project help #BuildLocalCapacity ?🤝

Great news – our #DarwinPlus Local scheme has JUST opened loom.ly/Qa7tqoM

Apply now!

Deadline: 29 Nov

A MUST-WATCH from David Olusoga, connecting climate crisis with lack of access - or welcome - to the British countryside. This lecture counts the wider environmental costs of racism in rural places & much more
#BlueEarthSummit 2023 #RuralRacismProject m.youtube.com/watch?v=8qEANN…

Next International National Trusts Organisation (INTO) webinar Wed 2 Nov with Prof Dasgupta and Fiona Reynolds on #EconomicsOfBiodiversity :

👨🏻‍💻 Sign up: into.org/programmes-res…

📚 Headlines from the Dasgupta Review: bit.ly/3FlMDUW

🎬 New York Times' 5-min video: bit.ly/45Cll7q

21 September is International Day of Peace
Over 3 years, international volunteers have restored a remote Georgian monument in the name of #peacebuilding through #heritage . Tsiskarauli Tower, in the Khevsureti region of Georgia, was damaged in 2001 by missile fire 1/2 🧵

1/3 We’re delighted to share a new toolkit, along with our partners Czech National Trust

12 case studies from participants in the SEECHT project form the kit. Under 4 themes, the studies give practical tips for opening heritage to wider audiences #broadeningaccess 🧵FAI
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Wonderful to be part of this amazing project - we can do great things when we work together International National Trusts Organisation (INTO) Thanks to all our partners, Tsiskarauli Tower shines as a beacon of hope !

1/3 Today we mark the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition. Many INTO member organisations care for sites with a connection to slavery, from the slaving fort on Bunce Island in Sierra Leone 🧵

1/3 Blickling Estate, 14 August
The British Council Arts funded #WithstandingChange project creates links between international partners and @NationalTrust based on the challenges of adapting to #climatechange . These relationships are an opportunity to share best practice and new ideas🧵

What a wonderful few days in Prague building common cause around people, nature and heritage!

(And also found a famous signature in the Strahov Library visitors book; took a private train to Libčice and had breakfast with the British Ambassador.)

🙏 Czech National Trust Erasmus+

Wonderful to meet colleagues at a round table hosted by the British Ambassador in Prague - including the ČSOP (Czech Union for Nature Conservation) who I met 20 years ago & who credit the National Trust model as an inspiration!

Hello from Prague! We’re delighted to be joining our hosts Czech National Trust and participants in the SEECHT project, supported by Erasmus+ 🧵 1/4

#intoheritage #sharinglearning #erasmus + #Herita #NarodnyTrust

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I've heard so much about @CullodenNTS through a recent #INTOPlaces virtual tour & Erasmus+ knowledge exchange.

So it was great to visit yesterday with Angela Cott & Clea Warner 🎩👏🙏

Looking forward to learning even more this week with @INTOheritage members in Prague!