English Heritage is the Government's statutory adviser on the historic environment. It works to conserve and enhance the historic environment, broaden public access to the heritage and increase people's understanding of the past. Its responsibilities include caring for scheduled ancient monuments and World Heritage sites and over 400 historic properties in its care, on behalf of the nation.
The National Trust was founded in 1895 to act as a guardian for the nation in the acquisition and protection of threatened coastline, countryside and buildings. Today, it cares for over 248,000 hectares (612,000 acres) of countryside in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, plus almost 700 miles of coastline and more than more than 200 Historic Houses & Gardens of outstanding interest and importance, open to the public and with a total ownership of over 25,000 buildings. It is a registered charity and completely independent of Government and therefore relies heavily on the generosity of it’s over 3.3 million members.
Cadw Welsh Assembly Government has responsibility for protecting, conserving and promoting an appreciation of the historic environment of Wales. This includes historic buildings, ancient monuments, historic parks and gardens, landscapes and underwater archaeology.
ConstructionSkills together with the Construction Industry Council and CITB Northern Ireland is one of the partners in the Government's UK-wide Sector Skills Council (SSC) for construction. SSCs have been set up to determine how training is delivered and funded in the UK. As an SSC, ConstructionSkills is responsible for representing employers' skills needs and for tackling the skills and productivity needs of construction. The parent body CITB-Construction-Skills collects an annual levy from all liable construction employers, which is redistributed to construction employers of every size in the form of CITB-ConstructionSkills grants. This provides assistance in all aspects of recruiting, training and qualifying the workforce. In November 2004, ConstructionSkills and English Heritage signed the first ever Sector Skills Agreement for this sector for them to continue working together to address craft skills training and development.
The National Heritage Training Group (NHTG) is an independent specialist sector skills development group, established in October 2002 through an agreement between ConstructionSkills and English Heritage. The NHTG is composed of contractors, trade federations, trade unions, heritage bodies and training providers and has a UK-wide remit to develop and implement a coherent strategy for traditional building craft skills training and provision. It provides assistance with all aspects of recruiting, training, and qualifying the UK’s built heritage sector work-force.
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