At its meeting in December 2005, the Board of Trustees of the Heritage Lottery Fund awarded a total of £7m to fund 10 Training Bursaries Schemes.
The aims of the training bursary scheme are to:
improve the quality of skills available to the heritage sector by providing new entrants or existing staff with work-based training opportunities
develop innovative, exemplar training schemes which promote diversity in the workforce
enable heritage organisations to work in partnership with other agencies; and
disseminate good practice.
Each bursary scheme will set up specialist training placements at heritage sites and recruit bursary holders to take up these placements. Bursary holders will receive mentoring, training and assessment from skilled heritage professionals and craftspeople.
Recruitment for bursary holders will be managed by each of the ten schemes and is likely to commence in spring 2006. For further information please contact the bursary schemes direct.
APPROVED HLF TRAINING BURSARIES SCHEMES
Institute of Field Archaeologists
A UK wide scheme supporting work based learning for archaeological skills
Hampshire County Council
Transport heritage bursaries scheme
British Trust for Conservation Volunteers Scotland
Natural Talent - Training in species and habitat conservation skills for Scotland and Northern Ireland
The Broads Authority
Site based training for reed and sedge cutters and millwrights
Herefordshire Nature Trust
The LEMUR bursary training scheme for environmental conservation skills in rural, urban and coastal environments.
Guild of Cornish Hedgers
Cornish hedgers apprenticeship training scheme
English Heritage
Historic and Botanic Gardens Bursary Scheme – a UK wide scheme for developing horticultural skills based in historic parks and gardens
Historic Scotland
Masonry conservation scheme for historic buildings - a Scotland and Northern Ireland scheme
The National Trust and English Heritage
Traditional building skills bursary scheme for England and Wales
The Institute of Conservation
HLF Training Bursary programme - a UK wide scheme developing conservation skills for archives, books, stained glass, ethnography, natural sciences, stone, ceramics textiles and other objects.