Heritage Skills Academy

Heritage Skills Academy is a specialist apprenticeship training provider focused on heritage engineering for classic and historic motor vehicles. From its bases at Bicester Heritage in Oxfordshire and Brooklands Museum in Surrey, the academy brings together experts from across the restoration industry to preserve and pass on the skills, knowledge and enthusiasm needed to maintain and restore the world’s finest classic cars. Heritage Skills Academy works with the UK’s leading classic vehicle specialists, including general restoration businesses, single-marque specialists and historic racing teams, helping them to recruit and train world-class engineers through structured apprenticeship programmes. Its apprenticeships cover heritage engineering mechanical, coachbuilding and trim pathways, delivered through block-release training at its dedicated workshops combined with on-the-job learning in the workplace. Employers benefit from industry-led lecturers and purpose-built facilities, while apprentices gain practical, career-focused training aligned to the needs of the heritage vehicle sector, preparing them for long-term roles in restoration and heritage engineering. (heritageskillsacademy.co.uk)