Office of Public Works invites applications for an apprenticeship in carpentry and joinery in Trim, Co. Meath, with earnings during training.
Start your career with the OPW.
We are recruiting an Apprentice in Carpentry and Joinery in Trim, Co. Meath. Gain hands-on experience, earn while you learn, and develop skills working on historic buildings.
Apply now: https://cutt.ly/OPWjobs
#Apprenticeship #Careers #HeritageSkills #OPW #MeathJobs
Join a multi-disciplinary team as an apprentice with OPW National Monuments Service! Develop skills in timber conservation and traditional joinery.
Full details: gov.ie/opwjobs
#Craftsmanship #TimberConservation #Joinery #HeritageSkills #Apprenticeship #NationalMonuments #TraditionalCraft
💥🔨 Spend some time in the forge with our #HeritageBlacksmith Matthew Walton, as he shows us how to make a copper bowl and steel bottle opener.
Watch the full video → bit.ly/4r9BwnY
#Blacksmithing #HeritageSkills
In 2025, we delivered a programme of Sporting Heritage online webinars, bringing together people working across archives, museums, clubs and community groups.
Over 467 people joined us online across the year. #SportingHeritage #HeritageSkills
Are you self employed? Witch Halse Coppice Crafts have a part-time opportunity for a Heritage Landscape Management assistant from January to March 2026!
www.lanss.uk/opportunities/job-opport...
#HeritageSkills #Landscaping #JobOpportunity
Sparks flying, fire roaring, bells ringing - are we describing love or a day in the forge? 💥🔨
When it comes to Matthew's work as a blacksmith, it's both.
#HeritageSkills #Blacksmithing #HandForged
When people hear “heritage apprenticeship,” they tend to picture stonemasonry, carpentry, or conservation—vital yet endangered skills, but only a fraction of what the sector truly relies on...
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#HeritageSkills #Apprenticeships #HeritageCareers #FutureOfWork
In case you missed it - Applications now open for the 2026 SPAB Fellowship! Full-time programme developing traditional building craft skills through workshops, site visits & hands-on placements. Deadline 10 Oct 2025: www.spab.org.uk/lear...
#HeritageSkills
🚀 After a summer pause, Access Heritage has relaunched with a twice-monthly column.
🔗 Find the first piece in the series here: open.substack.com/pub/accesshe...
#AIandWork #HeritageSkills #Careers #FutureOfWork #AccessHeritage #CulturalWork #DigitalHeritage
Go behind the loom with our weaver Roisin as she shares about the craft of linen weaving and her journey of learning how to use a loom → bit.ly/4fCrDe8 #HeritageSkills
Go behind the scenes in our Heritage Carpenter's workshop.
Learn about the craft of carpentry, and why #HeritageCarpenter Peter Sloan loves his job.
Watch the full film here → bit.ly/4m2TiHn
#UlsterFolkMuseum #Carpentry #HeritageSkills #Woodworking
I like the idea of #frugalTech' as described here. Fits in with #heritageSkills, #appropriateTechnology approach from the 1970s, and more recently #solarpunk thinking about future societies. Technology without community is rarely, if ever, an answer.
Here Gabriel, one of three work experience students gaining important #heritageskills with us is undertaking #photogrammetry of a Romano-British pottery vessel from the North Kent Marshes.
To contact us about student placements visit www.kentarchaeology.org.uk
FT article on St Paul's Cathedral
The #conservation workforce at St Paul's highlighted in the FT today. #heritage #skills #heritageskills #cathedrals @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/4d19...
🧵Make, mend, and create at Summer Solstice from the Brink! (13–22 June): Natural fibres, screen printing, up-cycling & fashion with purpose 🌿✂️
📍Brink!, Union Street, Belfast
🔗 playthinkbrink.com/summersolstice25 for more info & tickets #heritageskills #workshops #playthinkbrink #paywhatyoucan
Scarf repair for early 20thc timber ladder. People were in 2 minds about throwing this out - I hate that we’re so quick to replace. We need to reevaluate our ideas of time & skill. Learnt lots from dad, the timber maestro, & in many ways am regretting not pursing a trade #reflection #heritageskills
Our #illustration student placement Holly has been busy designing a basic guide to pottery illustration which we hope to publish on our website following a bit more road testing!
Stay tuned for more updates in due course!
#Archaeology #findsfriday #heritageskills #history
🦌 Moccasin workshop in Ontario, Canada 👣
#Moccasins #Bushcraft #SurvivalSkills #DIYLeather #PrimitiveSkills #HandmadeShoes #WildernessCulture #OutdoorEducation #SelfReliance #Homesteading #Buckskin #HeritageSkills #BarefootBushcraft
Pilots for National 5 qualifications in roof slating and stone carving have started in Edinburgh.
Given the skills shortage in the heritage sector, at #PortfolioQuestions, I questioned the Cabinet Secretary on supporting traditional skills training across Scotland.
#HeritageSkills #Scotland
Work in progress!
I had this beautiful piece of slate in my workshop, but sadly, it had some cracks. Instead of discarding it, I decided to see what would happen if I broke it apart. This stunning fragment appeared!
#slate #crafted #handcarved #traditional #carver #heritageskills #craftmanship
As part of #HeritageSkills Weekend, NBHS were delighted to attend a fascinating talk from wallpaper expert David Skinner about the hand painted Chinese wallpaper at Lissan House #Tyrone.
🙏 Lissan House Trust, CITB Northern Ireland, Ulster Architectural Heritage (UAH) and Dept of Communities NI.
👏👏🙏Big thank you to all attendees, volunteers & contributors who took part in #SkillsAndStories in partnership with Ulster Architectural Heritage at Lissan House last week.
Great to see #HeritageSkills in action & discover stories of the historic estate. Supported by #HistoricEnvironmentFund
Background image is (C) National Trust / Chris Lacey and shows Hardwick Hall in autumn. Text of the image is overlaid and reads: What's most crucial for heritage sector resilience? "the most crucial thing for ensuring a resilient heritage sector is training, whether that is apprentices of people already in the sector to improve their understanding of heritage buildings." - Richard Wilkes, Building Supervisor, Hardwick Hall. "Knowledgeable and skilful people. The more people we have with the skills and knowledge to do the work needed to protect our heritage, the more resilient it will be." - Callum Bainbridge, Apprentice Stonemason, Hardwick Hall. #HeritageResiliencePlan. Historic Environment Forum.
#Heritage Sector #Resilience Plan Sector Interviews retrospective: In 2023 we spoke to Building Supervisor Richard Wilkes & apprentice Callum Bainbridge about #conservation and #HeritageSkills training at Hardwick Hall: https://buff.ly/3WxojbP & https://buff.ly/42qqscV
1st class in my own workshop 🥰🙌
Fantastic afternoon, learning new techniques, refreshing old ones & sharing hints & tips to keep #stainedglass as accessible as possible to all 🥰
#Glassartist #Lessons #Workshops #Mentoring #Sharing #HeritageSkills #Flowers #everlastingFlowers #LakeDistrict
Drystone Walling at Harwes Farm, my latest piece on #Northwestnatureandhistory.co.uk
#walling #drystonewalling #heritageskills
#countryside #rural
@cprecountryside.bsky.social
@wclnews.bsky.social
@ffc-commission.bsky.social
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Great time walling at Harwes Farm CIC (harwesfarm.org) this morning, read about it soon on my blog #Northwestnatureandhistory , much thanks to Gillian, Hugh and the rest of the team
#drystonewalling #walling #heritageskills
#countryside #colne #lancashire
