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£17m investment in heritage skills
More than 50 training projects in the UK are set to benefi t from a share of £17m (US$25.5m, 20.9m) from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) as part of its Skills for the Future programme. Launched in July 2009, the one-off funding initiative aims to support organisations across the UK to create training places over a fi ve-year period, with grants ranging between £100,000 (US$150,394, 123,123) and £1m (US$1.5m, 1.2m). More than 800 placements are
The heritage attraction was founded in 1999 by local residents New York’s High Line gets award 26945.006_Eccles_Camera_Heritage_AttractionsMan_Jul10_100x210_v1_. 21/06/2010 17:20 Page 1
New York mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has presented the 2010 Doris C. Freedman Award to the Friends of the High Line, for the latter’s work in preserving a piece of New York’s industrial history and trans- forming it into an innovative public space and heritage attraction. The High Line is a public park built on an elevated freight rail structure on Manhattan’s West Side. Originally built in the 1930s to remove dangerous freight trains from Manhattan’s streets, the High Line delivered milk, meat, produce, and
raw and manufactured goods into the upper-fl oor loading docks of factories. Bloomberg said: “It’s an honour to
present the Doris C. Freedman Award to Friends of the High Line for its invaluable work in bringing the City’s historic High Line back to life.” Founded in 1999 by two neighbor-
hood residents, Friends of the High Line was formed as a non-profi t organisation dedicated to the preservation of the entire historic structure and establishing it – and its landscape – as a heritage attraction.
expected to be delivered as part of the investment, which is treble the amount originally set aside by the HLF and will support traditional conserva- tion training. Among the projects to receive funding is Training the Curator, a British Museum-led scheme that will
receive more than £510,000 (£767,000, 627,000) to train 15 people – with half from ethnic backgrounds. The Waterways Trust, Glamorgan
Archives and the National Heritage Ironwork Group are among the ben- efi ciaries. Heritage minister John Penrose said: “This investment is a great way of giving people access to practical on-the-job training.”
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