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Apr 29

Historic Vehicle Apprentice Network is go!

The Heritage Vehicle Apprentice Network held its first event at Bicester Heritage recently with over 30 apprentices attending. A big success

Feb 6

Who reads this stuff? Classic cars, heritage rail, marine and historic aircraft content consumers.

Kantar have measured how many people in the UK claim to regularly read topics such as classic cars, steam trains, heritage marine, aircraft.

Jan 13

The importance of apprenticeships in the classic car industry

Akash Cheeda from Marc Brunel Recruitment, a leading specialist in the sector tells us what's going on in the employment market....

Nov 18, 2021

Apprentice of the Year Award 2021 - Joe Mellor of Tim Walker Restorations Ltd.

Joe wins the Apprentice of the Year Award at the 2021 Historic Motoring Awards in association with Octane Magazine. The award category is...

Sep 7, 2021

New Apprenticeship Academy launch at Brooklands Museum

Heritage Skills Academy and Brooklands Museum have formed a new educational partnership to deliver apprenticeships in heritage engineering.

Apr 27, 2021

Heritage Skills Academy gains Good Marks from Ofsted.

Since opening its doors in 2017, this centre of excellence for heritage engineering apprenticeships has been growing fast.

Oct 23, 2020

Billy Strutt of P&A Wood wins Apprentice of the Year at The Historic Motoring Awards!

With an international panel of judges which included Jay Leno and Derek Bell M.B.E. , Billy won the award at one of the most prestigious...

Feb 10, 2020

National coach-building apprenticeship announced.

From April 2020, the Heritage Skills Academy will be delivering a national Coachbuilding Apprenticeship Programme.

Dec 10, 2019

Apprentices to restore Lancia Service Van at In-Comm Training in Shropshire.

In-Comm Training who now run Heritage Engineering Apprenticeships at Shrewsbury have been donated a Lancia Jolly ex-works van.

Jul 1, 2019

New Heritage Engineering training provider In-Comm featured on BBC Shropshire news.

The young people learning to restore vintage cars. The apprentices are offered 4-year courses in heritage engineering to fill a skills gap.

Oct 6, 2017

National Motor Museum employs first female apprentice

New apprentice Emily Leese, aged 18, has joined the National Motor Museum in thier experienced workshop team to help maintain and restore...

Jun 26, 2017

new Trailblazer apprenticeship in Heritage Engineering

A Classic Vehicle Restoration Apprenticeship has now been running for over 3 years at Bicester College. This scheme used what are...

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