Heritage Skills
respect for the past, design for the future
Heritage Skills Directory
Finding the right crafts person for a heritage project can be challenging.
The Sussex Heritage Trust Heritage Skills Directory connects property owners, architects, conservation specialists and project managers with trusted heritage craftspeople and specialist businesses.
Whether you are repairing a flint wall, restoring historic timber framing, conserving traditional brickwork or maintaining a thatched roof, our directory helps you find experienced professionals with the specialist skills needed to protect and preserve historic buildings.
Heritage Skills Courses & Events
Discover heritage skills courses, workshops and training opportunities delivered by some of the UK’s most experienced craftspeople and conservation specialists.
Whether you’re exploring a new interest, developing professional skills or considering a career in heritage construction, our course directory provides access to practical learning opportunities across a wide range of traditional crafts.
Training providers can also promote their courses to a growing audience of heritage enthusiasts, tradespeople and future crafts people.
Heritage Skills Education Portal
The Heritage Skills Education Portal supports students participating in the Sussex Heritage Trust Heritage Skills Programme.
Students begin their journey with a practical taster day at the Weald & Downland Living Museum, experiencing traditional heritage crafts first-hand. The portal then provides access to further training opportunities, exclusive learning resources, specialist courses and work experience opportunities with award-winning heritage crafts people.
Only students that have attended a Taster Day can register.
Sponsors
With Thanks to Our Funders:
This student portal, and the development and delivery of our Heritage Skills Programme, is only possible thanks to the incredibly generous support of the organisations and individuals who have shared our vision and helped make it a reality.
Their funding, encouragement and commitment are helping us protect the built and landscape heritage of Sussex, while opening the door for young people to develop rewarding careers in heritage crafts and address the growing and critical skills gap facing the sector.
Our sincere thanks go to the National Lottery Heritage Fund, Swire Charitable Trust, Dulverton Trust, Ernest Kleinwort Charitable Trust, Sussex Community Foundation, South Downs National Park Authority and South Downs National Park Trust, together with our other generous donors who prefer to remain anonymous.
We are enormously grateful for their belief in the programme and their commitment to investing in both Sussex’s heritage and its next generation of skilled craftspeople.