Training

An HLF Skills for the Future grant enabled the CBA to offer year-long workplace learning bursaries.

The funding will further the work at the Heritage Boatyard, training more people in the necessary heritage skills so they can help conserve the historic collection.

The Grimsay Boatshed and Am Bàta received a Skills for the Future grant to provide traditional boatbuilding workshops to local schools.

Volunteers explored six centuries of history through the lives of local personalities, sharing their discoveries through the ‘Woking’s Story’ display at The Lightbox.

A team of 50 volunteer bat wardens worked to increase the population of horseshoe bats in South Gloucestershire, Bath and North East Somerset through monitoring, habitat management and education.

This partnership training scheme provided opportunities for people to take on work-based placements across the South West Wildlife Trusts.

A team of volunteers received training to survey, document and conserve small ancient woodlands for the benefit of local communities.

The Call Up helped participants piece together the lives of refugees living in Hampshire during the First World War.

Young people worked in teams to create new interpretation, helping shape the way visitors engage with the Richmond Borough Art Collection in the future.

The Conservation Volunteers (TCV) joined forces with independent school Building Young People's Potential (BYPP) to help 103 young people in alternative education learn accredited skills and become ‘Green Giants.’

Young people from Lincolnshire explored their area's rich built heritage and gained an insight into traditional building skills.

A project devised by a group of 25 young people after the old Horse Chestnut tree in the grounds of their community centre was felled.