Applications have now closed for the Sep 2010 round of placements.  If you have applied and are selected for interview, you will hear from Icon at least a week before the interview date (for dates see "Apply Now" tab to left)

Icon is committed to promoting and developing work-based learning

We believe that work-based learning helps supplement formal academic training and provides entry routes to the profession for those from non-traditional backgrounds. On these pages you will find details of the 2006-2012 HLF-supported programme and also other internships funded by external providers which may come up at various times throughout the year. 

HLF Internships: New Routes into Conservation through work-based learning

Extension to original scheme announced

The Heritage Lottery Fund granted £1Million to Icon in 2005 to deliver a new internship scheme in conservation. This has helped 54 new conservators launch their careers over the last four years. In October 2009 HLF agreed to extend Icon's scheme up to March 2012, allowing Icon to offer another 20 placements - to be adverised in April and October 2010.

Continuing criteria for potential host organisations can be found here, together with a Skills Demand Desk study recently carried out by Icon in 2005/6. Guidelines outlining the entire Internship process can be found here:

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See also the other HLF-funded bursary schemes  

English Heritage - Building Bursaries Scheme- also extended

http://www.buildingbursaries.org.uk/about.html

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Information on other Internships in UK and beyond

http://www.globalmuseum.org/ http://www.iccrom.org/eng/01train_en/01_02interns_en.shtml

http://www.si.edu/mci/english/professional_development/fellowships_internships.html

Icon's Regional Co-ordinators

A team of three Regional Co-ordinators support the Icon scheme's interns and supervisors:

Lorna Calcutt	Fiona Macalister	Sarah Gerrish