Construction Heritage Ambassadors,
Prince of Wales's Building Crafts Apprentices and Get into Rural Skills launch the Academy

This week Woodchester Mansion saw the inauguration of an entirely new heritage training initiative – the first of its kind in the country.

Modelled on ConstructionSkills' Construction Ambassadors scheme, the Cotswolds Heritage Academy has designed a heritage version of the programme whereby industry professionals are trained to take up mentoring roles in schools, advising and encouraging young people who might one day take up careers in the traditional skills arena. Ten professionals from contractors as diverse as Oxford's famous Symm of Oxford, Taylor Woodrow and Carillion, attended an induction hosted by Catherine Bullough of ConstructionSkills.