From participant to programme delivery
We first met Zuzanna, a young Part 1 architecture graduate, when she joined one of our King’s Trust heritage skills programmes at the Old Pay Office.
After completing the workshops, she came back.
Zuzanna began volunteering with SCT, using the opportunity to strengthen her practical skills, gain experience and build her architectural portfolio. She became increasingly involved in the life of the organisation, helping us deliver workshops through our Sugar & Spice project as well as supporting wider activities and organisational tasks.
Then the circle completed itself.
Zuzanna successfully applied for a role with The King’s Trust and has now returned to the Old Pay Office, this time helping to deliver the programme with us rather than attending it as a participant.
For SCT, this is exactly what capacity building should look like.
A workshop should not simply end when the workshop ends. By creating opportunities for people to learn, return, volunteer, practise, take responsibility and eventually lead, skills and confidence can continue to grow.
Zuzanna’s journey from participant to volunteer and now programme delivery is a small but powerful demonstration that this approach can work for everyone involved. Young practitioners gain experience and progression opportunities, partner organisations gain people with practical knowledge, and SCT gradually develops a wider community of people able to share heritage skills with others.
The person learning today can become the person teaching tomorrow.
