LandSkills East Midlands

To get your hands on the money you need to be based in Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Rutland or Northamptonshire and be a:

• Farmer or grower
• Forestry business owner or contractor
• Agricultural contractor
• Farm or forestry employee (including a migrant worker)
• Young man or woman entering farming or forestry

You must run, own or work in a business spending at least 50% of your time in primary agriculture, woodland business or social enterprise.

New proposals invited for delivery across the East Midlands region

Genera call extention

Climate change

Business improvement

You can get funded training for:

• Improving work practices and resource management
• Technical skills
• Complying with new legislation including animal health and welfare and nutrient management
• Managing woodlands for fuel and economic benefit
• Leadership, business and financial management. 

We work with 14 training providers to deliver LandSkills funded training:

• BPEX
• EBLEX
• Farming Ambassadors
• FarmSkills (XL Vets)
• FWAG
• Growing Rural Enterprise
• Minster Vets Progressive Poultry
• More People
• NADIS
• Rural Development Initiatives
• Rural Training Links (RTL)

Simply contact us on 08452 788800 to find out the best provider for you. Or download the full list of training providers for more details.

We manage LandSkills East Midlands, which is part of the Rural Development Programme for England (RDPE).

RDPE 2007-13 is jointly funded by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development and defra and has a budget of £3.9 billion.

£3.3 billion of this budget will help farmers to manage the land more sustainably and deliver important outcomes on biodiversity, landscape and access, water quality and climate change.

£600 million will help make agriculture and forestry more competitive and sustainable and enhance opportunity in rural areas.

Visit the defra website for more information.

Q. Does LandSkills fund legislative training?
A. No as we can’t fund legislative or regulatory training that’s required to carry out basic work.

However we will consider funding you if you need training that goes beyond this basic requirement and allows you to progress through personal or business development, but we can’t pay for tests or exams.

Q.  Can I get help towards the cost of leadership and management development?
A.  We will consider supporting you if you can identify the benefits this training will have on your business.

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