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Lots of news from the IWA Restoration Hub - looking forward to the online restoration conference, and looking back at the Restoring Confidence project IWA / WRG Restoring Confidence Project: a review WRG’s parent body the Inland Waterways Association’s Restoration Hub and its activities are funded by IWA memberships, donations and grants. In 2019 we were awarded nearly £30,000 from National Lottery Heritage Fund (NLHF) Grant for our ‘Restoring Confidence’ Project. If you’ve received support or training from IWA in the past 18 months, funding is likely to have come from this grant, or through our capacity building grant from Historic England. The Restoring Confidence project, funded by the Resilient Heritage Grant Programme, aimed to enhance the role of IWA’s technical support officer, permitting them the opportunity to undertake further training and provide more expert advice to restoration organisations as well as helping restart any stalled restoration projects. The grant was also secured to help the IWA Restoration Hub provide training on environmental management, heritage construction methods, good governance and legacy fundraising, and set up funding surgeries to advise restoration societies on how best to approach
funders or manage their own fundraising efforts. The Restoring Confidence Project aimed to develop five key strands of our Restoration Hub:
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Technical: Development of key members of staff to provide technical support to waterway restoration project, including support to projects which has stalled due to lack of expertise. Environmental: Access training in order to provide effective environmental support and advice to restoration group, with a particular focus on integration of heritage and biodiversity conservation. Fundraising: Developing skills of Fundraising Officer and cover costs of offering fundraising 1-2-1. Upskilling: Funding to organise more training events for WRG and restoration groups. Resources: Creation of a new, accessible virtual Restoration Hub.
Training included this SSSTS (Site Supervision Safety Training Scheme) course...
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