Heritage Lottery Fund sustenance for Skills for the Future
04 June 2013
The National Archives has received initial support for an £18,000 evolution funding bid from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) in subordination to its Skills for the Future plan, the strategic HLF programme that gives folks the skills they need for denoting futurity careers in heritage and opens up estate to wider audiences.
The support command enable The National Archives to sketch out a successor to the present three-year design under the programme, offering a farther on three annual cohorts of trainees the opportunity to develop practical archiving skills betwixt 2014 and 2017.
Speaking about the beginning bid support Nick Kingsley, Head of Archives Sector Development, The National Archives, uttered: 'We are extremely grateful to the HLF with regard to their support in helping us unfold this important investment in the futurity of individuals who want to track careers in the heritage sector.'
Skills and routes into muniments
The project will be delivered in company with the Archives and Records Association and a netting of partners across England who be pleased host work placements at archive and heritage services, providing an alternative route of inlet into archives work for people with non-traditional backgrounds. To enhance their teaching experience, the trainees will share y online learning space, regular joint tuition days and a training week at The National Archives. Trainees devise also have the opportunity to undertake drilling focused on an area of portion, and take advantage of one-to-some support and mentoring to help physical development.
For further information please close union the Archive Sector Development team: asd@nationalarchives.gsi.gov.uk
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