The National Trust
As a Carpentry & Joinery apprentice, you’ll work at a Specialist Craft Centre, learn bench joinery and specialist repairs for joinery on windows, doors, mouldings & panelling, and fabricate new bespoke joinery. You’ll work onsite, repair historic, windows, doors, roofs, staircases & historic gates, and install bespoke joinery.
Our Specialist Craft Centres have been created to develop a skilled workforce for the National Trust which demonstrates the highest levels of skills, promotes and preserves heritage building crafts, inspires people to take up traditional crafts skills and helps us to repair and conserve our special places, for everyone, for ever. We own and care for one of the largest, most varied and most significant collections of built structures in Europe. The greatest proportion of our 28,500 buildings and structures were constructed pre-1919 and these have high heritage value, with a range of uses – from offices to workshops, mansions to cottages. Our crafts people are an integral part of looking after our assets, using their skills to conserve and maintain our buildings and structures, and being part of creating a lasting legacy.
Based at our traditional Specialist Craft Centre near Dunham Massey, you’ll be part of a team producing specialist joinery for historic places across the North region. This workshop plays a key role in caring for some of the area’s most significant heritage buildings, giving you the chance to work in settings rich with history and character.
You’ll also work across a range of National Trust properties in Cheshire and the wider North. Every building is unique, which means no two jobs are ever the same. You’ll learn something new on every project and develop a wide range of joinery and carpentry techniques to meet the varied challenges that come with conserving centuries old structures.
From creating finely detailed timber components and bespoke architectural joinery to carrying out sensitive conservation repairs on much loved properties, your work will help protect these remarkable places for generations to come.
