The Staff Exchanges in European Cultural Heritage Trusts (SEECHT) project offers opportunities for professionals from within the National Trust movement to share their learning and contribute to a more open and welcoming European heritage sector. The project delivers a system of secondments for Europe's future leaders of heritage trusts, offering on-the-job training by shadowing their contemporaries in other European contexts. Having learnt from their neighbouring trusts, participants will deliver projects that broaden access to all segments of the European public, whilst also welcoming members of heritage trusts from other countries as part of the reciprocal visiting programme. A toolkit, to be shared widely among European heritage organisations and policy makers, will capture the incredible strength of variety possessed by European heritage trusts, and provide the blueprint for continued collaboration between project participants.