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Centres and organisations that provide training or offer careers advice   Suggest a Link

 

For more information about training courses and providers please see the Training Section

 

ACS Distance Learning offering over 400 courses in distance learning, including horticulture, agriculture, psychology and much more…..

 

Ambios To work effectively with nature requires both confidence and a sound knowledge base. Ambios delivers training, experience & capacity building to foster this need, using models appropriate to both the developed & developing worlds.

 

Brighton Conservation Volunteers  are a group of countryside enthusiasts who share the enjoyment of working outdoors, the challenge of learning new skills and the satisfaction of making a contribution to the community.

 

Bristol University - Careers Department  The BBC's Natural History website links to this mine of useful information.


British Trust for Conservation Volunteers (BTCV) - need we say more, it does what it says on the tin!

 

The Careers Guide Your guide to choosing & succeeding in a career.

 

Environment Skills Training can provide the training you need to develop your skills and career

 

Intute is a free online service providing you with access to the very best Web resources for education and research. The service is created by a network of UK universities and partners. Subject specialists select and evaluate the websites in our database and write high quality descriptions of the resources.

 

Hadlow College, Kent’s centre of excellence in land-based training, specializes in agriculture, horticulture, fisheries management, countryside management, equine, animal management, floristry and garden design.  Courses available from national vocational qualification level 1 through to degrees.  Work based learning and bespoke business courses also available.

 

Logo: jobs 4 youthwork Jobs 4 Youthwork

An ethical small business that has been developed and managed by two youth workers with 20 years post-qualifying experience. We promote careers in statutory and voluntary youth work across the UK.

Sound Familiar?  Like CJS but for Youth Workers - very good.

 

People & Planet’s Ethical Careers Service aims to help young people find a socially and environmentally responsible career working in everything from charities to green businesses. Includes a magazine, website and job bulletin.

 

The PoD Site.  PoD stands for Personal Overseas Development.  We have voluntary programmes in Thailand, Tanzania and Peru.  Teaching, orphanage work, animal rescue, Amazon jungle research and conservation.  1 week - 6 month programmes.

 

School for Environment, based in Sheffield, has the ambition to make environmental training, and the job opportunities it can bring, available to everyone. The website includes training, volunteering and job opportunities in Sheffield's diverse environmental sector.

 

Shared Earth Trust. Based on its unique case study at Denmark Farm, the Shared Earth Trust has been pioneering the restoration of wildlife habitat to farmland since 1987. We now offer  ● Low-cost training for conservation professionals, students, and landowners. ● Conservation Guide Booklets.  ● Visitor Centre/facilities for hire based on a 40 acre nature reserve.

 

Sheffield Environmental Training Lots of useful information and links.

 

The Student Conservation Association is an American national nonprofit the dedicates itself to changing lives through service to nature.

 

University of East London - Careers have a vast array of useful information and resources, well catalogued for ease of use.

 

Logo: VSO: Sharing skills, Changing lives. VSO is an international development charity, working through volunteers. There is urgent demand for natural resources professionals to volunteer in our programmes overseas, sharing their skills to change the lives of others

 

 

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