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Craft Skills

  • Traditional Building Craft Skills
    There is a shortage of practitioners skilled in the traditional crafts necessary to conserve and restore our historic buildings. These include bricklayers, carpenters, flint workers, lime-plasterers (including pargetters), stone-masons and thatchers. English Heritage has joined forces with CITB-Construction Skills (Sector Skills Council for Construction) to form the National Heritage Training Group (NHTG). The NHTG is responsible for implementing a coherent strategy for training and skills provision in the traditional building crafts sector.
  • New Bursary Scheme Helps Meet Demand for Heritage Skills
    The Heritage Lottery Fund has awarded £900,000 to a partnership between English Heritage, The National Trust, Cadw, ConstructionSkills and the National Heritage Training Group to establish and deliver a £1.2 million Traditional Building Skills Bursary Scheme throughout England and Wales over the next 4 years until 2010.
  • Ironbridge Institute Conservation Courses
    October 2007 - March 2008. The Ironbridge Institute, offers both lecture based and practical two day conservation workshops which can be attended individually by members of the public or as elements of CPD training.
  • Building Conservation Masterlasses 2008
    A collaboration in specialist training between West Dean College, English Heritage and the Weald and Downland Museum supported by the Radcliffe Trust.

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  • Historic Environment Traineeship (HET) Scheme
    English Heritage has now launched the Historic Enivironment Traineeship (HET) Scheme. The first Trainees started work with English Heritage in October 2008 and have been placed within our regional teams across the country. They will gain experience in the application of professional conservation management skills in a planning and development context.
  • Streets for All: Practical Case Studies
    English Heritage, which launched the Save our Streets campaign in 2004, has now published the best “how to” examples from around the country in ten Streets for All: Practical Case Studies. These showcase examples of councils who have taken the initiative to deal with a particular aspect of street clutter.