Starts August 2025
This two-day training course is designed for forestry and conservation professionals seeking to integrate drone-based remote sensing into forest and woodland management. Participants will learn how to plan and carry out drone surveys using RGB and thermal sensors, process imagery to create…
Starts September 2025
If your job involves applying pesticides in a commercial role then you are legally required by the Chemicals Regulation Directorate (CRD) (Control of Pesticides Regulations 1986) (as amended) to take this CoC qualification.Anyone who wishes to take this course must have already completed and…
Starts October 2025
From first cuts to full-on felling, our course will teach you all you need to know about using a chainsaw. This is a hands-on course that delivers both practical skills and health and safety guidance as well as demonstrating that you and your employer have completed sufficient training to meet the…
Starts September 2025
A wide range of mowers are used across horticultural and landscape businesses. With proper training, most pose little risk to either the user or anyone near to the machine. Our course will give you that training, ensuring you can operate a ride-on mower safely and efficiently.Once you’ve…
Job Vacancy
We're looking for a Nature Recovery Officer to join our team to help deliver actions and targets of our Hedges and Edges Nature Recovery Project. This will require significant work in the field, alongside a regular presence in our Kendal office. Closing date Tuesday 29 July 2025.
Job Vacancy
The Farmer Network is looking for a project manager to help deliver workshops and advice for farmers in Cumbria and manage our team of Cumbrian coordinators. Suitable skills will include an understanding of farm support schemes and farm business accounts and experience of working closely with the…
Volunteering
Come and get involved learning about endangered wildflower meadow restoration work at the Cumbria Seed Bank. We are saving seed from 14 rare and declining species to then propagate into plug plants at our conservation nursery at Gosling Sike, then we'll plant them out in specific sites to establish…
Work Experience
Eric and Dianne Horn from Slackhouse Farm near Gilsland would like to offer a young person the opportunity to learn about their cheese making with the potential to help them at the dairy and with selling at farmers markets. Slackhouse Farm cheeses are made by hand on the farm using organic milk…
NFU/FARMER NETWORK HEALTH & SAFETY SOCIAL
MSc Conservation Management Online Event
Volunteer Day - Nature Rich Miterdale