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Heritage Lottery Grant for grazing skills training
The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has awarded a grant of £260,121 under its Skills for the Future programme to the Grazing Advice Partnership to set up and run a three-year nationwide programme of six and twelve month apprenticeship placements.
The aim will be to offer apprentices a mix of ‘on the job’ work experience and instruction in the practical skills associated with livestock handling and conservation grazing.
Apprentices will receive a bursary, mentoring support and access to GAP training courses. Placements will be arranged with a range of leading traditional livestock farms and conservation grazing schemes and are expected to commence early in 2011.
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For more information, contact Tom Cairns or Eleanor Newson on 01249 470 029 or email enquiries@grazingadvicepartnership.org.uk
Habitat Composer: An interactive tool for land management
Habitat Composer is a web-based computer application that creates unique landscape illustrations of a site. It can be used for a wide range of communication tasks, but is designed primarily to enable conservation advisors or site managers to provide individual bespoke pictures of what they would like habitat management to achieve on an individual site. The two habitat types currently available are dry Lowland Heaths and Steep Limestone Dales Grasslands.
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GAP launches photo competition with a focus on native breeds
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Photographs will not be used for commercial purposes or passed onto other organisations (including GAP's partners) without the permission of the photographer whose copyright will be respected.
