Education, Training & Outreach

North West Heritage Skills Hub: Building the future on the heritage of the past

Heritage Works is a member of the North West Heritage Skills Hub, which aims to support traditional building skills training and professional development for the heritage sector through:

• Maintaining a network of organisations and individuals who are involved in heritage across the region
• Providing information on regional heritage skills statistics
• Raising awareness and creating training and partnership opportunities for heritage skills training
• Signposting opportunities for wider training such as Health and Safety
• Keeping hub members updated on issues affecting those working within the heritage built environment

The Hub is steered by a group of built heritage professionals with knowledge and influence at strategic level in national and regional organisations. The Hub is managed on a day-to-day basis by the Heritage Skills Co-ordinator based within the Construction Centre for Innovation (CCI) at the Centre for the Centre for the Urban Built Environment (CUBE) in Manchester.

For further information contact Kay Leech, North West Heritage Skills Co-ordinator, kay.leech@ccinw.com or 07938 898 861

Strategy Development

Education & Community Engagement Advisor, Brian Holmshaw, is currently developing an education, skills and community outreach strategy for Heritage Works. Such a strategy is necessary for the Trust to meet its second charitable objective "to advance the education of the public in the techniques and practice of building preservation and conservation".

Brian has been researching and putting together a flexible and robust strategy document to develop Heritage Works' involvement in the training and learning environment. The strategy document will analyse the heritage and education market to pinpoint models of operation and possible revenue streams. The research will identify funding bodies, business, education and community partners who might be suitable collaborators, for example on the new construction diploma. It will also examine the potential role for Heritage Works in heritage education consultancy, and for accredited training, sub-contracting and direct employment in heritage skills.

If you have any suggestions as to how the strategy could be developed, particularly with respect to partnership working, please contact Brian Holmshaw on 0161-237 3210 or by email.

Quality Street:

Making older homes more sustainable

On Saturday 14 November 2010, Heritage Works held a one-day event at Wigan Enterprise Centre, exploring how best to improve the environmental performance older homes, particularly the traditional Victorian terraces and inter-war estate houses. More information

Lime Mortar training day

Last year Heritage Works organised a lime mortar training day onsite at one of its projects, Causey Hall, Halifax. More information

Previous projects

The Skills, Schools & Stories project was developed as an integrated programme of activities providing opportunities for people of all ages to get involved in the restoration of Murrays' Mills and the regeneration of the Ancoats area of Manchester. The project was completed in summer 2007 and has its own legacy website.