Various paces are on offer on the National Heritage Training Group (NHTG) ‘Building Traditional Skills, Building Resilience, Building Community in England Bursary Scheme’, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) which seeks passionate, enthusiastic and dedicated people to be trained to work on England’s traditional buildings, with closing dates from 12 August
Opportunities include:
- Trainee Heritage Brickworker, London area
- Trainee Heritage Carpenter, South of England
- Trainee Heritage Plasterer placement opportunity, Oxfordshire
- Trainee Heritage Brickworker placement opportunity, East Midlands
- Trainee Heritage Flint and Brickworker placement, Suffolk/East Anglia
- Trainee Heritage Slating and Tiling placement opportunity, Sussex
- Trainee Heritage Hard Metal Roofing placement opportunity, Surrey
- Trainee Heritage Stone Mason placement opportunity Lincoln Cathedral
The NHTG Writes:
The National Heritage Training Group have been awarded £779,200 funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund to provide high quality, work-based training and skills development opportunities to equip people for a career in the built heritage sector.
Training and live site-based work experience is the largest element of this Project. Opportunities will include:
- 30 variable-length traditional building craft skills bursary placements100 delegates attending a 2 day course to achieve the Level 3 Unit Award in Understanding Repair and Maintenance of Traditional Pre-1919 Buildings
- 10 Heritage Specialist Apprenticeships
- 20 Level 3 NVQ Diplomas in Heritage Skills
- 10 Mentors to train enabling them to pass on their skills and knowledge to develop the abilities of less experienced trades people
Are you Interested to offer a placement with your specialist heritage building company or in undertaking a training placement?
For more details see the IHBC’s Awards and Bursaries page
