New items have been added to the IHBC’s ‘Awards, placements & bursaries etc’ web page, a leading pan-sector resource that also posts opportunities for those in the early stages of developing skills or learning – ‘early-skills’ – in any aspects of buildings or places, their care, understanding, management and improvement.
IHBC Director Seán O’Reilly said: ‘On offer just now are two more opportunities with the timber frame specialists responsible for the Globe Theatre, McCurdy and Co. These have been notified to us by Graham Lee at the Building Crafts College (BCC), and are for structural carpentry bursary training. But it’s a wide-ranging resource, and also current are RIBA awards and the IHBC’s own Annual Student Award for 2013!’
‘So don’t forget to check out this critical resource. It’s a great resource for anyone with early career interests in any aspects of historic and built places. And do remember that it is developing as a full database, so you will be able to check back through earlier opportunities to see if any have been re-opened in later years!’
IHBC member Graham Lee is a regional co-ordinator with the National Heritage Training Group (NHTG), the lead body overseeing the delivering of key craft skills under the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) Skills for the Future training scheme.
Graham writes:
We hope that the Building Traditional Skills bursary funded training opportunities might be of interest to current or recently past carpentry students who wish to advance their training in structural carpentry.
The placements are initially at McCurdy and Co workshops in Berkshire and then on the Jacobean Wannamaker theatre adjacent to the Globe in Southwark, London.
Please circulate the information as widely as possible, to relevant current contacts and anyone else you think might be interested in these opportunities to train in Traditional Heritage Craft Skills.
For the NHTG see www.nhtgskills.org
For the HLF see www.hlf.org.uk
For the IHBC’s Annual Student Award see: http://gasa.ihbc.org.uk/
For McCurdy and Co see: www.mccurdyco.com
Details in terms of Person, Placement Specifications and Application forms are downloadable from: LINK
See the Building Crafts College (BCC) website at www.thebcc.ac.uk
