The Twyi Centre in Wales has limited numbers of places each of the Heritage Plastering, Masonry and Carpentry Specialist Apprenticeship Programmes. Is there anyone in your company who would benefit from working towards this Heritage NVQ Level 3 and being able to apply for the CSCS Heritage Gold Card?
The first 2 weeks of training starts on Monday 21st September for the Masonry and the Carpentry, and on the 5th October for the first week of Plastering. There is CITB grant to cover the course cost if the trainee and your company are eligible.
Construction Companies are invited to enrol their employees on an NVQ Level 3 in Heritage Stone Masonry (Mason QUH870), Plastering (Solid QUD870) or Wood Occupations (QUG870). This is a 20-day training course, followed by on-site assessment over a year. The training will commence in September 2015. CITB grant is available for eligible companies and employees. Registration closes on 14<sup>th</sup> August 2015. Course flyer/booking from and FAQ’s attached.
More information on the requirements expected of employers is available, and if you have further questions, please do contact Angela James or Helena Burke for details. 01558 824271 or acjames@carmarthenshire.gov.uk or hburke@carmarthenshire.gov.uk
The Canal & River Trust is among the UK’s biggest charities, looking after 2,000 miles of canals, rivers docks and reservoirs; together with museums, archives and the country’s third largest collection of protected historic buildings.
As part of our commitment to the long term maintenance and restoration of the waterways, we are looking to recruit a number of Waterway Heritage Trainees across both Wales and England. more…
If you work in the building trade or are training you could be eligible for the City and Country Bursary which will fully fund a place on one of the courses.
further details: katie.seabright@essex.gov.uk
QEST apprenticeship – worth up to £18,000 – and better still, these are now open to anyone 16 or over, and institutions can apply without having a named apprentice. The apprenticeship can run over a number of years.
This is the second year that the Heritage Crafts Association has worked with generous funders to produce a unique set of awards specifically for traditional crafts. And our funders have been even more generous this year; we have almost £100,000 (£99,500) in bursaries and awards which is the most there has ever been for heritage crafts.
Awards Travelling Fellowships to British citizens from all walks of life to travel overseas, to bring back knowledge and best practice for the benefit of others in their UK professions and communities.
Fellows receive a travel grant to cover return and internal travelling, daily living and insurance within the countries visited.
Latest Categories (2015) include:
Crafts & Makers – in partnership with the Heritage Crafts Assoc & the Worshipful Company of Carpenters
Designers – this includes architecture and is in partnership with the British Council
Environment & Sustainable Living
Further details: LINK
Students from all areas of study in Historic Preservation and Conservation are encouraged to apply for an APT Student Scholarship to participate in the APT Québec City 2014 Conference. Applications are accepted by submitting an abstract that summarizes research and/or a project that addresses the 2014 Conference theme…
Lincolnshire County Council and Lincoln Cathedral have been granted extra funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund and are able to offer six bursaries in the above heritage skills. Training will be at Lincoln Cathedral and college. These are full-time placements lasting eighteen months.
Applicants need a degree of competency to level 2 in construction, art and design or engineering, through achieving qualifications or practical experience. Level 2 equivalence include 5 GCSEs A*-C, a level 2 new diploma in Construction and the Built Environment, Creative & Media or Engineering, or an NVQ Level 2. We are keen to attract people seeking to change career including those who have caring responsibilities.
You must be over the age of 18 and eligible to work and study in the UK, successfully complete an occupational health assessment and be confident of your ability to work outside and at height on scaffolded sites. Application pack from: amanda.davey@lincolnshire.gov.uk, 01522 550613, or Amanda Davey, Economy & Culture, Lincolnshire County Offices,13 The Avenue, Lincoln LN1 1PA
Closing date for applications: 17 February 2014
Interviews w/c 24 March, to be available from early May 2014.
Applications are invited from craftsmen and conservators for financial support. Since 2002 the York Foundation for Conservation and Craftsmanship has helped over 90 individuals across a very broad range of heritage skills. Based in York, the Foundation will consider applications from across the UK. Awards are available of up to £1500 to support training and development and up to £3000 to help established experts take on an apprentice or trainee. Applications are invited by the end of March 2014 and shortlisted applicants will be interviewed in early May.
Post-1914 places of Christian worship in the UK
In 1998 the Twentieth Century Society, a member of the Alliance, published in its Journal a gazetteer of about 2,400 Christian places of worship of all denominations. A further fifteen years of research and scholarship have revealed many more buildings, and the Society wishes to update this list and produce an authoritative, searchable, public access online gazetteer for the period 1914-2013.
An experienced researcher, with knowledge of the holdings of the RIBA library and other relevant archives is required to review published sources, unpublished reports and tour notes to compile simple gazetteer entries conforming to MIDAS and Inscription Standards in spread sheet format.
Ten days work, Fee £100 per day, plus Central London Oystercard provided (zones 1 and 2).
Please apply with CV and cover letter detailing architectural expertise and database experience to coordinator@c20society.org.uk subject line CHURCHES RESEARCH.
Deadline for applications is 6th December. For more information click here.
The next winter conference will be held at Stamford Court Conference Centre and John Foster Hall, University of Leicester on 4-5 January 2014. The theme is Attention to Detail, with the aim of discussing various ways in which close examination of buildings can produce new insights and understandings that may not otherwise have been noticed.
2 bursaries are available – one for a student and one for a professional at the start of their career. The bursaries cover the cost of the conference for someone attending as a resident, but not travel costs.
Closing date for applications is Saturday 30 November 2013
The successful applicant will be supervised by our Fellow Professor Dana Arnold and will have the opportunity to work in collaboration with Sir John Soane’s Museum on the relationship between Sir John Soane (1753―1837) and John Britton (1771―1857). This topic remains loosely defined and will be up to the student in consultation with Professor Arnold to develop and shape the project according to his or her own interests. Proposals are also welcome from suitably qualified students wishing to research other topics in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British architectural history and/or theory.
Closing date: 22 November 2013
Expressions of interest are invited from researchers from all disciplines within the arts and humanities to submit ideas for online exhibitions in the Image Gallery of the AHRC website. A total of £4,000 will be available to each successful applicant or group of applicants to prepare, make available and submit their images for exhibitions.Further details are available on our website.
Closes 29 November 2013
RIBA Funding for 2013/14
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced funding research and scholarship schemes for students worth a record £250,000 in 2013/14, while £100,000 of the funds will go towards financing scholars embarking on vital educational research into architecture.
see:LINK
President’s Awards for Research
The RIBA’s annual research awards exist to promote the innovation and insight that emerge from excellent research.
The awards acknowledge and encourage fresh and strategic thinking in architectural research for the benefit of the profession as a whole.
Projects are judged by a distinguished panel of experts in four categories:
Further details: LINK
Walter Parker Bursary Scheme
The emphasis of the Walter Parker Bursary scheme is to support students to enter the architectural profession. Practical experience is a requirement of architectural education: students are required to demonstrate key professional skills and competencies at the Part 3 professional examination which is the last stage before qualification as an architect.
Students of architecture can gain key experience at all stages of their architectural education. This bursary scheme provides assistance to students and graduates who are limited by financial constraints so that they can take advantage of opportunities for practical experience that will assist on their route to qualification as an architect.
These bursaries are funded by the bequest of Walter J Parker, who left a legacy to support the apprenticeship and professional training of architects experiencing financial hardship, and are known as the RIBA Walter Parker Bursaries.
Further details: LINK
Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship
RIBA writes:
Lord Foster said: ‘As a student I won a prize that allowed me to spend a summer travelling through Europe and to study first hand buildings and cities that I knew only from the pages of books. It was a revelation – liberating and exhilarating in so many ways. Today it is my privilege to fund the RIBA Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship, which I hope will have a lasting legacy – offering the chance for discovery and the inspiration for exciting new work – for generations to come.’
Further details: LINK
In 2010 European legislation to lower the content of Volatile Organic Compounds in paints came into force, resulting in huge changes to the formulation of solvent based paints, varnishes and glazes – this will have major, long-term and far-reaching effects on the future maintenance and conservation of historic buildings.
Two students will be offered free places at the conference.(7th June 2013 – London). Students who wish to apply for this should email info@traditionalpaintforum.org.uk.
A student will then be picked at random for the free place and the successful candidate will be contacted two weeks before the conference date. The successful student will be asked to write a review of the conference which will appear in our journal and on the website.
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