'Educational Charity
NHIG is dedicated to the safeguarding and preservation of historic ironwork, promoting high standards of craftsmanship, conservation and repair and working towards the development of:
- Accreditation for conservation blacksmiths
- Guidelines on specification of restoration work
- Resource centre for ironwork information
- Courses in ironwork conservation for practitioners & specifiers
In other conservation disciplines practitioners are expected to prove themselves by achieving some kind of accreditation. The field of heritage ironwork deserves no less. |