Training grants of up to 70% coming soon!

A new programme offering training grants of up to 70% is coming soon to help develop land-based businesses across Yorkshire and Humber.

The LandSkills programme aims to raise the skills levels of farming, production horticulture and forestry business in the Yorkshire and Humber region.  The programme will develop skills programmes to fill identified gaps in the training needs of businesses working in agricultural livestock, production horticulture, forestry, arable, non food crop and food supply chain industries.

An Industry Advisory Board (made up of representatives from the sector) will steer the programme and commission skills activity and knowledge transfer around the following areas:   animal health and welfare, nitrates, pesticides and waste management, risk management, resource efficiency,  assurance and traceability, supply chains and marketing, climate change, environmental land management, business management and succession planning.

LandSkills is part of the Rural Development Programme for England (RDPE) and is managed by Lantra, the sector skills council for the environmental and land-based sector, on behalf of Yorkshire Forward.

For more information visit www.lantra.co.uk/LandSkills or alternatively email LandSkills@lantra.co.uk