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Participants: If you are interested in any of the courses detailed below please contact ONLY the person, centre, telephone number or email address.   Providers: If you wish to advertise a training course for rates or contact CJS for more information.   Where a course title or provider is listed in bold it means there is more information available. Click on the bold type and go straight through to see further details.
   
Short Training Courses (10 day consecutive maximum)   All courses available as a downloadable Excel spreadsheet.  

Practical Countryside Skills

Typical courses include: drystone walling, hedging, chainsaw certification, brush cutter and sprayer certification, MIDAS type driving courses. 

Course looking at the theory behind these employing these techniques are another page (click Back button at foot of page).

First aid and health and safely type courses have a separate page (click Next button at foot of page).
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Oct tbc Mink Raft Training Day 1 Fordingbridge, Hamps Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust  01425 651013   www.gct.org.uk
01/10/2008   Basic Tree Survey & Inspection 1 Broomfield  Arboricultural Association   admin@trees.org.uk www.trees.org.uk
01/10/2008   Free Hedge Laying Course 1 Doncaster Doncaster Primary Care Trust 07879 732216 Victoria Smith    
02/10/2008 Pesticides PA1 & 6AW 2 Duchy College Lynher Training  01822 832232   www.lynher.com
03/10/2008   Accredited Design Course 2 Various Naturewise   info@naturewise.org.uk  
04/10/2008 Practical Coppicing 2 nr Petersfield, Hants The Sustainability Centre 01730 823166 courses@sustainability-centre.org www.sustainability-centre.org
06/10/2008 Chainsaw - Advanced Tree Climbing Techniques 5 Bodmin Lynher Training  01822 832232   www.lynher.com
07/10/2008 Strimmer / Brushcutter 1 Duchy College Lynher Training  01822 832232   www.lynher.com
08/10/2008 Woodchipper 1 Yelverton Lynher Training  01822 832232   www.lynher.com
09/10/2008 Pesticides PA2 1 Duchy College Lynher Training  01822 832232   www.lynher.com
09/10/2008 Chainsaw - Maintenance & Crosscutting 1 Duchy College Lynher Training  01822 832232   www.lynher.com
13/10/2008 Chainsaw Course 2, 4 or 5 Aberystwyth Environment Skills Training 0800 1185511   www.environmentskills.co.uk
13/10/2008 Chainsaw - NPTC units CS30 & 31 1 Tamar Valley Lynher Training  01822 832232   www.lynhertraining.co.uk
14/10/2008   Professional Tree Inspection 3 Sheffield Arboricultural Association   admin@trees.org.uk www.trees.org.uk
17/10/2008   Kesteven Volunteer Ranger Work Party 1 Bourne Woods, S Lincs Forestry Commission 07774 730212      
18/10/2008   Accredited Design Course 2 Various Naturewise   info@naturewise.org.uk  
18/10/2008   Straw Bale Building 2 nr Blandford Dorset Centre for Rural Skills 01747 811099 info@dorsetruralskills.co.uk www.dorsetruralskills.co.uk/courses/strawbale.htm
18/10/2008   Pond Design & Construction 2 Bendalls Farm, Nr Wells, Somerset Edible Landscape LLP 01761 434349   www.ediblelandscape.co.uk
18/10/2008   Wood Products - Storage, Seasoning & Marketing 1 Flimwell, Tunbridge Wells Woodnet 07930 589508 training@woodnet.org.uk  www.woodnet.org.uk
18/10/2008 Domestic Chainsaw Use 2 nr Petersfield, Hants The Sustainability Centre 01730 823166 courses@sustainability-centre.org www.sustainability-centre.org
20/10/2008   Chainsaw - using Chainsaw from Rope & Harness CS39 2 Duchy College Lynher Training  01822 832232   www.lynher.com
21/10/2008   Caring for Apple Trees 1 Pentwyn Farm Gwent Wildlife Trust 01600 740358   www.gwentwildlife.org
23/10/2008 Pesticides PA1 & 6AW 2 tbc Lynher Training  01822 832232   www.lynher.com
24/10/2008   Marshland Ways Weekend 3 Lincolnshire Woodland Ways     info@woodland-ways.co.uk www.woodland-ways.co.uk
24/10/2008 Low Impact Smallholding 3 Redfield, Bucks Low-Impact Living Initiative (LILI) 01296 714184   www.lowimpact.org
27/10/2008 Introduction to Tree Inspection 2 tbc Lynher Training  01822 832232   www.lynher.com
29/10/2008 Professional Tree Inspection 3 tbc Lynher Training  01822 832232   www.lynher.com
30/10/2008 Hedgelaying / Steeping 2 Duchy College Lynher Training  01822 832232   www.lynhertraining.co.uk
31/10/2008   Hedgelaying 1 Pentwyn Farm Gwent Wildlife Trust 01600 740358   www.gwentwildlife.org
01/11/2008   Accredited Design Course 2 Various Naturewise   info@naturewise.org.uk  
01/11/2008   Introduction to Devon Hedgelaying 2 Torbay Torbay Coast & Countryside Trust 01803 606035   www.countryside-trust.org.uk
03/11/2008   OCN Coppicing 5 Coalbrookdale, Telford Greenwood Centre 01952 432769 courses@greenwoodcentre.org.uk www.greenwoodcentre.org.uk
03/11/2008 Stumpgrinder 1 Bodmin Lynher Training  01822 832232   www.lynher.com
04/11/2008   Straw Bale Building 2 nr Blandford Dorset Centre for Rural Skills 01747 811099 info@dorsetruralskills.co.uk www.dorsetruralskills.co.uk/courses/strawbale.htm
07/11/2008   Woodland Ways Weekend 3 Oxfordshire Woodland Ways  07843 064114 info@woodland-ways.co.uk www.woodland-ways.co.uk
09/11/2008   Hedges & Coppicing 1 Dorchester Kingcombe Centre 01300 320684 office@kingcombecentre.org.uk www.kingcombecentre.org.uk
10/11/2008 Chainsaw Course 2, 4 or 5 Aberystwyth Environment Skills Training 0800 1185511   www.environmentskills.co.uk
10/11/2008   OCN Hedgelaying 5 Coalbrookdale, Telford Greenwood Centre 01952 432769 courses@greenwoodcentre.org.uk www.greenwoodcentre.org.uk
11/11/2008   Planting Trees 2