For the last 27 years, since we became a charity, we’ve been committed to helping everyone explore stories and stir spirits. We tell stories about the historic figures you know and the lives you don’t. We let people explore and we set minds racing. 

But today, still, not everyone can visit us in person, or access our content online.  

To be for everyone, everywhere, we will need to significantly extend our reach and deliver meaningful work that has a real impact on people’s lives. 

 Although our palaces have existed for hundreds of years, society and people’s interests shift constantly. We’ll always love and look after the palaces in our care. We’ll always open them to the public. We’ll always need to generate the money to make our plans possible. And we’ll always achieve our goals through the hard work and dedication of our team.  

Our Apprenticeship programmes will play a huge part in being ‘A Charity for Everyone’.  

Working closely with the Early Careers Manager, the departments and HRP colleagues, our apprentices will ensure we bring new, exciting, diverse talent into the heritage sector as well as fresh ideas whilst developing the knowledge, skills, and behaviours to build careers for themselves. 

Whatever their role, everyone who works at HRP has a passion for what they do and it takes a huge team of people with wide-ranging skills to look after and manage our magnificent palaces. For that to continue into the future, we want to encourage fresh, passionate new talent into the charity and our apprenticeship scheme is central to that.  

• Historic Royal Palaces’ Apprentices are placed in a department relevant to their apprenticeship. They work as part of those teams across a working week that is regulated by the line manager in the department.  
• Each Apprentice will be given an induction by their department as well as an organisation-wide induction as part of the apprentice cohort. 
• Each position is assigned a training provider that will support the qualification learning and a percentage of the working week of an apprentice is assigned for college work and study. This is either on day release, block release or remote learning.