
Skills & Trades Covered
Building services
- Electrical
- Gas and heating
- Plumbing
- Renewable/environmental technology
General building construction and maintenance
- Damp proofing and control
- Excavation/groundwork contracting
- Fire protection
- Flooring
- General building contracting
- Glazing
- Insulation and energy efficiency
- Joinery/carpentry
- Kitchens
- Locksmith
- Metalwork and welding
- Painting and decorating
- Plastering and screeding
- Pointing
- Roofing
- Scaffolding
- Wall tiling
- Windows and conservatories
Specialist building conservation and restoration
- Blacksmithing
- Lime mortar/render/plaster/wash
- Sash window repair and conservation
- Specialist brickwork
- Specialist carpentry
- Specialist ironwork
- Specialist leadwork
- Stained glass art, repair and conservation
- Stone masonry, carving and dressing
- Stone slate roofing
- Stone/brick repair and cleaning
- Straw bale construction
- Thatching
- Timber conservation and repair
- Timber frame construction
- Wood carving and turning
- Wood preservation
Agriculture and Horticulture
- Agricultural contracting
- Agricultural engineering
- Horticulture
- Rural mechanics and machinery
Boundary and Access maintenance
- All ability access
- Bridge building and repairs
- Dry-stone walling
- Fencing - post/wire
- Fencing - timber
- Flagging, cobbling and paving
- Gates and stiles
- Gravel paths and steps
- Hedge-laying and trimming
- Hurdles
- Railings - metal
- Signage and waymarking
- Walling
Habitat and Woodland Management
- Bracken and weed control
- Chainsaw use
- Charcoal and Coppicing
- Forestry and woodland
- Habitat surveying
- Land drainage
- Planting
- Pond creation/restoration
- River bank restoration/revetment
- Vegetation clearance
- Working horses
Landscaping
- Garden services
- Landscape architecture/consulting
- Landscaping

Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust, Old Post Office, Main Street, Clapham, North Yorkshire, LA2 8DP
T: 015242 51002 F: 015242 51150 E: info@ruraltrades.org.uk W: www.ydmt.org