Get a taste for working in great outdoors with new diploma course (From York Press)

Get a taste for working in great outdoors with new diploma course

7:54am Thursday 2nd February 2012 in Education news

PEOPLE in York wanting to work outdoors are being invited to a taster session for a new diploma course.

The British Trust for Conservation Volunteers (BTCV) will be offering diplomas in Work-Based Environmental Conservation in York from March, in partnership with Natural England, offering City and Guilds Level 1 and 2 qualifications.

The course will teach skills such as woodland, grassland and wetland management, building and maintaining paths and fences, hedge-laying, and coppicing and felling trees. The taster event will be held at Skipwith Common Nature Reserve, from 10.30am to 2.30pm next Thursday.

To take part, phone 01904 644300.

or log on to btcv.org.uk