Funding Award to Sustain Traditional Building Skills in Northern Ireland

CITB-ConstructionSkills NI has secured funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund, through its 'Skills for the Future' programme, to deliver the ‘Sustaining Traditional Building Skills in NI’ project. This project will provide high quality, work-based training and skills development opportunities across the province and the funding will support:

• 12 month placements for six general and three specialist crafts people
• The provision of a three week 'Training for Trainers' programme to improve the knowledge and understanding of traditional building skills and materials for up to 15 further education lecturers
• The training of four heritage ambassadors to act as advocates and mentors for the traditional building skills programme throughout Northern Ireland.

The South West College has been appointed by CITB-ConstructionSkills NI to manage the delivery of the project.

The formal launch of the ‘Sustaining Traditional Building Skills in Northern Ireland’ project will take place at the Ulster American Folk Park, Omagh on Tuesday 27th September 2011 at 11am.

For more information please contact ciaran.mcmanus@swc.ac.uk or go to www.hlf.org.uk, www.cskills.org