Training
Programme
This programme is for community volunteers throughout the UK.
The courses focus on sustainability in communities, health and local
social enterprise.
All courses on this programme are fun and informative and help local community groups tackle real
issues in real situations. There is a small grant fund attached to this programme, so you will have
the opportunity to apply for a grant of up to £500 to help your community project develop. The
programme is funded by the John Laing Charitable Trust.
Advanced Community Allotments
30 April – 1 May 2015
Trainers: Phil Lillywhite and Richmond Dutton
This course is designed specifically for
community organisations that have a
community allotment project in operation.
The energy, commitment, and excitement of
developing your project might now be starting
to fade a little as the reality of dealing with
day-to-day management issues takes over. This
course will help to reinvigorate your project with
new ideas for developing it further and will look
in greater depth at some cultivation techniques
to help you with your allotment gardening. You
will learn methods of growing that will both
deepen your knowledge and increase your
enthusiasm.
As always, we will look at how ideas can be put
into practice. The course will involve participants
in some practical work, especially more
advanced plant propagation techniques.
Topics covered in this course include:
• The ‘what’ and ‘how’ of protected growing –
cold frames, greenhouses, polytunnels.
• Introduction to keeping chickens and bees
• Identifying and controlling pests and diseases
• Fertilisers and manures
• More specialist varieties of fruit and
vegetables
• Methods of irrigation
• The interaction between plants and weather
• More advanced techniques of plant
propagation.
• Addressing management issues in a
community allotment project.
Freebies
14-15 May 2015
Trainers: Engage Associates
When you are trying to set in place a new
community project, or effectively run an existing
one, your thoughts often turn to fund raising.
Getting hard cash for your project isn’t the only
way to resource it – there are loads of freebies
out there.
This training will focus on finding support,
money and materials for community projects.
You will find out what is available free, what
you can match-fund (including your time as a
April to february
2015
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