Fancy a career where your skills will be in huge demand? No, not driving a lorry – working in one of Yorkshire's oldest and rarest traditional crafts.
Stone masons, milliners and even boggart-makers are now sought-after more than ever. These and other heritage crafts offer health and wellbeing benefits and fantastic career opportunities, according to today's guest Richard Godley.
Richard wears several hats, including for the WEA (Workers' Educational Association) which is behind a free Heritage Skills Weekend at Sheffield’s Woodland Gallery. Richard tells us more about the weekend in this, episode 350 of Business Live. He also covers:
- why we should "conserve, not preserve" heritage,
- the WEA's activities and courses
- the National Emergency Services Museum
- what a boggart-maker actually does.
Timings:
- 0 - 2:16 Introduction
- 2:16 interview with Richard Godley
- 22:00 Key findings from the new State of Social Enterprise Survey 2021, available in full here
- 24:20 Launch of TEAM SY – Tech Ecosystem Accelereration and Market-making South Yorkshire, working to "join up" the tech ecosystem so that tech and digital entrepreneurs are embedded in a thriving environment
- 26:50 The SME Climate Commitment. More here.
- 27:27 £10,000 of match-funding available for community businesses which are crowdfunding, via Crowdfunder and Power to Change. More in their 22 October webinar.
- 29:07 Wrapping up, a few other updates and praise for the wonderful novel, Piranesi.