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The care and maintenance of historic buildings requires craftspeople with specialist skills and knowledge. The NHTG are committed to ensuring that construction work carried out on historic buildings is carried out by suitably skilled individuals.
Our built heritage is a limited resource that requires care and regular maintenance for it to survive. If we fail to raise awareness of these skills and do not train workers in the materials and techniques needed then we run the risk of losing these essential practical skills across the UK.
What's available to the heritage sector?
- Get your workforce carded with the Heritage Skills CSCS card, endorsed by English Heritage and other clients as a requirement for work on heritage sites.
- Heritage Skills NVQ Level 3, designed for heritage craftspeople
- National Progression Award for Masonry Conservation in Scotland
- Provide a placement or an employee for a Heritage Lottery Fund bursary scheme
Heritage Skills NVQ + CSCS card
Heritage Skills NVQ 3: the principal qualification for craftspeople who work on historic buildings.
CSCS Heritage Skills Card: proof of competence to work on historic buildings.
Heritage Lottery Fund's Traditional Building Skills Bursary Scheme
The scheme is looking for companies, organisations and individuals who realise the need to provide on-the-job experience for committed and skilled individuals, and are prepared to host a placement.
ConstructionSkills
For information on apprenticeships, scholarships, training courses, getting qualified and carded.
