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 your services Click Here for rates or contact CJS for more information. Or submit your advert here

Short Training Courses

(10 day consecutive maximum)

Training Calendar of short courses is included in CJS Weekly (third edition of the month) and in CJS Monthly two months prior to the event, eg Janaury editions include events in March.

The courses listed online are sub-divided according to content.

Access and Rights of Way

Administrative and Office skills: This includes areas such as software training; guide to Planning; contract management skills; budgeting, wildlife legislation, fundraising techniques but not basic skills training (literacy and numeracy etc.).

Community Engagement and Environmental Education: That's being trained in how to deliver community events and environmental education not the actual events themselves

Country Craft Courses This section covers craft courses which can be anything using traditional skills.

Countryside Management Techniques: The theory behind the use of the technique, see the Practical Skills pages for courses in how to apply these techniques.

Courses in environmental (rather than countryside) skills: Examples include courses on renewable energy, sustainable development, heating with wood fuel etc.

First Aid, Risk Assessment and other Health & Safety related courses.

Horticulture and Small Holding:  Practical and theoretical training in gardening, permaculture and small holding.

Identification and Field Survey Skills - Mammals: Practical training in how to find and identify mammals, also training in survey techniques and classifications.

Identification and Field Survey skills - Ornithology: Practical training in how to identify and handle birds, also training in survey techniques and classifications including ringing licences

Identification and Field Survey Skills - Plants and Habitats: Practical training in how to identify higher and lower orders of plants, how to classify vegetation groups, also survey techniques. This page details courses where a full habitat is considered.

Identification and Field Survey Skills - Herpetology, Fish and Invertebrates: Practical training in how to identify, classify and survey reptiles amphibians, fish and invertebrates.  This is sort of how to ID everything else not considered above!

Practical Countryside Skills: Training in the practical aspects of countryside management techniques such as dry stone walling and hedge laying.

Practical Countryside Skills - Machinery: Courses on the use and maintenance of machinery, includes driving courses

Practical Work Days: Spend a day or more helping to manage an area, conserve a species, improve habitats and gain experience in the practical skills required.

And don't forget the Events page

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Please note: Many of the event providers have their own website, with more details than are included here. Several of these are linked to the CJS site, you will find these addresses (and hyperlinks) on our Links page.

And don't forget to have a look at the CJS Focus  These often have information about training specific to their area of interest.