Strengthening Our Common Life by nurturing heritage skills
New opportunities for young people to work in heritage
A new skills training project, "Strengthening Our Common Life" (SOCL), offering 12 paid placements in top heritage organisations in London, Bristol and Portsmouth, has now begun.
SOCL’s unique range of 10 project partners includes Bristol Museums, Galleries & Archives, Southbank Centre, King’s College London and Historic Royal Palaces.
Placements offer a rich variety of skills and experiences that enable trainees to gain a Diploma in Cultural Heritage (QCF Level 3) and help them pursue a future career in heritage. Placements are 9-18 months long, with each trainee receiving a bursary of £13,500 gross per annum.
The project is supported by the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund’s Skills for the Future programme and is devised and managed by London-based arts and heritage charity, Cultural Co-operation.
SOCL aims to increase workforce diversity by offering opportunities to individuals in sections of the population currently under-represented in the heritage sector. 18-25 year olds in Britain’s minority ethnic and faith groups are particularly encouraged to apply.
Prakash Daswani, Cultural Co-operation’s founder and Chief Executive, explains: “This is a unique opportunity for young people to enter into the heart of Britain’s mainstream culture: learning about our national heritage, re-interpreting it and making decisions about it for the benefit of all.
Trainees will explore cultural connections between Britain and the rest of the world. They will acquire the professional skills to care for and manage our common heritage, and to open it up to existing and new audiences, now and in future.”
Applications for Traineeships are now closed.
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Full-time, fixed-term placements of 9-18 months to start in April / May 2011. Bursary of £13,500 gross per annum. Cultural Co-operation (CC) is a long established independent arts and heritage charity based in London. It has developed an exciting new heritage skills training project - “Strengthening Our Common Life by nurturing heritage skills” (SOCL). SOCL comprises 12 skills training placements hosted by a consortium of 10 top heritage organisations, 8 in London, plus Bristol and Portsmouth. Host partners include Southbank Centre, Historic Royal Palaces, King’s College London and Bristol Museums, Galleries and Archives. The project aims to make Britain’s abundant heritage resources more accessible and meaningful to the UK’s increasingly cosmopolitan population by offering high quality training in heritage skills to young people from sections of the community that are currently under-represented in the heritage sector. Applications are therefore particularly welcome from 18-25 year olds in Britain’s black, Asian and minority ethnic and faith communities. Placements offer trainees the opportunity to gain a rich variety of skills and experiences while working with their hosts’ exhibitions, interpretation, collections and public operations, and to achieve a QCF Level 3 Diploma in Cultural Heritage. Entry requirements: Applicants must have a genuine enthusiasm for and interest in culture and heritage and a wish to pursue a career in this sector. Minimum qualifications: 5 x GCSEs at A-C grade including English and Mathematics or NVQ/VRQ Level 2 or comparable qualifications, experience and competence. We encourage applications from candidates up to and including degree level. These traineeships do not constitute an offer or guarantee of employment once a placement is over. However, by developing a range of accredited heritage skills, those who complete their placement successfully will have greatly enhanced their future employment prospects in the heritage sector. Bursaries are subject to HMRC ruling. Application deadline: 12:00 noon, Monday 7th March 2011 Interviews: Weeks commencing 28th March, 18th April and 2nd May 2011 SOCL is supported by the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund as part of its Skills for the Future programme.Applications to the SOCL Project are now closed and all candidates invited to interviews have been contacted.
Due to the volume of applications we received, we are unable to contact or provide feedback to unsuccessful applicants who were not shortlisted for interviews.
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