Date

Course Title

Location

Cost

Description

September 13th 2010

Basic Tree Inspection

RHS Harlow Carr, Harrogate

£55 with LandSkills funding (£160 without)*

This one-day course aims to provide specific tree survey and inspection training at a basic level for anyone of a non-arboricultural background or with limited arboricultural knowledge, but who has responsibility for trees or woodland areas. This course will allow them to identify obvious defects from ground level and then to report their findings to a line manager.

September 28th 2010

Arboriculture & Bats

Bewerley Park, Pateley Bridge

£55 with LandSkills funding (£160 without)*

This basic awareness course, developed by the Bat Conservation Trust and the Arboricultural Association, is aimed at arborists and forestry/woodland workers, and will help them to carry out tree works with consideration of the potential effects on bats and their habitats.

September 29th 2010

Firewood Production and Supply

Carlshead Farms, Sicklinghall

£35 with LandSkills funding (£100 without)*

Aimed at tree, existing and fledgling firewood businesses, this newly developed course will cover many aspects of firewood as a renewable fuel. This will include sources of timber for firewood, handling and processing equipment and marketing and economics, as well as the new HETAS Solid Biofuels Assurance Scheme.

October 5th 2010

Short Rotation Forestry

Carlshead Farms, Sicklinghall

£35 with LandSkills funding (£100 without)*

This one day course will introduce delegates to the concept of growing timber on a short rotation for fiber production as the primary objective. Using the country's leading experts on SRF species and silvicultural techniques we will spend look at SRF theory, available species, harvesting, processing and marketing, management techniques and practical applications.

December 15th 2010

Woodfuel Quality Standards

Aske Estate, Richmond

£35 with LandSkills funding (£100 without)*

This course is designed to help participants understand the range of standards for wood fuels, know how to specify wood chip fuel, find out if a particular type of wood is appropriate for a specific combustion system and recognise the importance of quality assurance.

January 11th 2011

Managing Woodlands for Woodfuel

Sledmere Estate, Driffield

£35 with LandSkills funding (£100 without)*

A very popular course in the past, this Managing Woodlands for Woodfuel course is aimed at owners and managers of woodland, estate and farm foresters, and those looking to use their natural resources to produce and supply woodfuel. This course will cover uses for your wood, measuring quantity and quality of timber, woodlands management, harvesting and extraction and conversion of timber to product.

February 22nd-24th 2011

Ignite: Woodfuel Production and Supply

Sheffield

£100 with LandSkills funding (£400 without)*

The intensive course! Our Lantra Awards accredited 3-day Ignite course covers the whole wide world of woodfuel production and supply, from the basics of woodfuel processing, through boiler systems, burn chemistry and units and conversion factors to marketing and transport! We also include site visits, which in the past have taken in operational wooduel boilers, suppliers, and processing sites.

February 25th 2011

Woodland Archaeology

Helmsley

£35 with LandSkills funding (£100 without)*

Presented by an established expert in the field of woodland archaeology, John Morris of the Chiltern Woodland Project, and local forester Brian Walker, this course is split includes a brief classroom based theory session followed by site visits to various locations to look at the practical field identification of features and discuss how to best manage the woodland to protect and conserve them.