The Historic Environment Forum (HEF) is a collaborative initiative that brings together senior representatives from organisations working across the historic environment sector in England.
The HEF enables cross-sector partnership working across a range of strategic issues and activities that matter to the historic environment. Our collaborative approach is designed to deliver positive change for the sector, ensuring that England’s historic environment is supported, and that people are able to benefit from it.
Our current Task Group priorities are:
Explore our key activities below to learn more.
Highlighting developments across England’s heritage sector in the last financial year, the Historic Environment Overview for 2023-24 was published in August 2024. The report was produced by the Historic Environment Forum with support from Historic England. It outlines significant achievements for the sector, showcasing collective efforts to preserve, celebrate, and
In the first instalment of the Historic Environment Forum’s Sector Resilience Interviews series focussed on the theme of Governance, we hear from Ari Volanakis, PhD researcher. Please tell us a bit about yourself and your role. I am Ari Volanakis, PhD researcher at the Institute for Sustainable Heritage at UCL,
Following a remarkable career of leadership in England’s historic environment sector, Peter Hinton – former CEO of the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists – has retired. The Historic Environment Forum (HEF) Chair, Dr Adrian Olivier, paid tribute: “Pete Hinton has been a valued, steadfast, and very active supporter of HEF since
Bringing together senior members of staff from public and non-government bodies to work collaboratively on strategic matters for the historic environment sector.
