IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance scheme for heritage services – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and this week features the South Downs National Park (NP) on investing in built heritage skills.
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South Downs National Park writes:
Major lottery funding will support the next generation of craftspeople to help care for the National Park’s incredible historic landscape and buildings.
Sussex Heritage Trust has received a grant of £207,000 from The National Lottery Heritage Fund to deliver its ‘Heritage Skills’ initiative, encouraging young people to develop traditional building craft skills crucial to the future of conservation.
It comes as the UK is facing a shortage of skilled craftspeople to conserve historic buildings. Without urgent action, the traditional skills needed to care for our heritage may be lost.
This significant funding boost will enable the Trust, working in partnership with Weald & Downland Living Museum, Chichester College Group, South Downs National Park Authority and a network of local employers, to deliver an ambitious three-year plan to train the next generation in skills such as Following a successful pilot last year, the project will expand its reach to hundreds more students, offering practical skills training, bursaries, and direct pathways to work experience with employers.
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