Heritage Building and Conservation Craft Skills Bursary
Derbyshire County Council
Apply NowWant hands-on heritage skills that boost your uni or career prospects? Apply for a Derbyshire bursary of up to £2,500 to learn lime plastering, stone masonry or heritage joinery through mentoring and training. Build real craft experience — deadline 27 April 2026.
Derbyshire County Council, with funding from the National Heritage Lottery Fund and support from local partners, is launching a Heritage Building and Conservation Craft Skills Bursary as part of the Derbyshire Makes History programme. The scheme offers funding of up to £2,500 per applicant (up to four bursaries available) to help increase key hand skills in heritage building and conservation such as lime plastering, stone masonry and heritage joinery.
Bursaries can be used to fund mentoring or training with craftspersons, attendance at specialist training courses, self-directed programmes of training with craftspeople, and the cost of specialist tools, materials, books or supporting travel and accommodation. Applicants must be living or working in Derbyshire; training itself can take place anywhere in the country.
Key dates: the application deadline is 5pm on 27 April 2026; shortlisted applicants may be invited to a short online interview on 5 May 2026; all applicants will be notified of decisions by 22 May 2026. Training funded by the bursary must take place between 1 June 2026 and 31 May 2027.
27 Apr 2026
Training period
Location
- Applicants must be living or working in Derbyshire.
- Training funded by the bursary can take place anywhere in the country.
- Funding is available to new entrants who have demonstrated a commitment to starting a new heritage building career and need to acquire hand skills.
- Funding is available to early-career practitioners who have not yet attained the hand skills required to achieve commercial success.
- Funding is available to mid-career practitioners who need to acquire distinctly different hand skills to develop new ways of achieving commercial success.
- Up to £2,500 funding is available per applicant, with up to 4 bursaries in total.
£2,500 total
Funding of up to £2,500 per applicant (up to 4 bursaries available). The bursary can fund mentoring/training with a craftsperson, specialist training courses, self-directed training with craftspeople, specialist tools or materials, books or study materials, and supporting travel and accommodation.
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