Historic Environment Scotland

In the midst of Scotland’s growing housing emergency, the construction industry faces an urgent challenge: a shortage of skilled workers across trades and professions that threatens the nation’s ability to meet demand.

Historic Environment Scotland (HES) welcomed more than 600 young people across Scotland this week as they took part in Heritage Careers Week 2025. The festival of career events returned for its second year to spotlight opportunities in the heritage sector.

Two painting conservators from Historic Environment Scotland (HES) visited St Mary’s Church in Grandtully, Perthshire, to conserve the unique ceiling. 

Historic Environment Scotland (HES) has awarded Birse Community Trust grant funding to conserve and reopen The Souter’s Shop in Birse, a purpose-built shoemaker’s shop left largely untouched for over half a century and the only surviving example of its kind.

Historic Environment Scotland’s (HES) Elgin Skills Training Centre is marking 25 years of traditional skills training, celebrating the impact it has had on Scotland’s built environment and local economy.  The centre, located next to the iconic Elgin Cathedral, has trained 150 stonem

A former AG Barr Irn Bru factory in Camelon, on the Forth & Clyde Canal, is being transformed into Scotland’s Centre of Excellence for Canals and Traditional Skills by Scottish Canals and Historic Environment Scotland (HES).

Aberdeen City Council has received a £2,1276,180 grant funding boost which will help drive forward a five-year heritage and conservation programme aimed at addressing social, economic and environmental issues in the eastern part of Aberdeen City Centre. The funding comes from National Lottery

The Hawick Conservation Area Regeneration Scheme (CARS) is celebrating key milestones across the town centre as it enters its final phase.

JML Contracts is playing a key role in the conservation of a medieval Scottish castle. Barra’s Kisimul Castle - the ancestral home of the Macneil clan for centuries – is regarded as a jewel in the crown of the Hebrides.  

Glasgow’s architectural heritage has scored a significant win with the Scottish Government’s dismissal of an appeal to remove the listed status of the historic Vogue Cinema in Possilpark. The building at 124 Balmore Road, once under serious threat of demolition, will now remain legally p

Charitable groups working with Argyll and Bute Council have secured £40,000 in grants to complete emergency works at medieval church sites at Kilkivan, Killean and Kilchenzie. Laggan Opportunity and Amenity Fund (LOAF) and Killean and Kilchenzie Churches Preservation Association (KKCPA) were a

Historic Environment Scotland (HES) has announced over £3.9 million in funding to seven organisations with a track record of making a significant contribution to Scotland’s historic environment through its latest round of Partnership Fund grants. The Partnership Fund was created in 2021,

The UK’s government heritage bodies have published a new handbook to support learners undertaking retrofit qualifications, following their renewed commitment to helping the nation transition to net zero.  With approximately 6.5 million pre-1919 buildings in England, Scotland and Wales &nd

A new national training centre for Scotland focused on traditional skills has secured £3.7 million of National Lottery support. Scotland’s Centre of Excellence for Canals & Traditional Skills will be located near Lock 16 on the banks of the Forth & Clyde Canal in Falkirk.

Historic Environment Scotland (HES) is working with the Institute of Conservation (Icon) and partners to develop a new risk register to highlight the traditional building and heritage skills most at risk of disappearing.