Case studies

By offering advice, business development and addressing skills issues, Lantra has helped many people in environmental conservation develop their skills and improve their businesses.

Our business champions have interesting tales to tell about how development and, in some cases, diversification has changed their lives for the better.

Click on the links below to read people's stories about skills and training in the environmental conservation industry.

Have you developed your skills, and how has this helped your business? Tell us your story.

Dr Gordon McGlone OBE, Chief Executive of Gloucestershire and Lantra Chairman

Training is often regarded as 'choppable' by businesses says Dr Gordon McGlone, Chief Executive of Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust and Lantra Chairman. But as Gordon has found in his organisation, training is a good investment and not a burden on the business budget.

Christopher Widger, Cheshire Countryside Property Manager, National Trust

Christopher Widger is Cheshire Countryside Property Manager for The National Trust. It sounds like a perfect job - overseeing hundreds of acres of beautiful countryside - but it is a job which brings a wide range of different challenges. Christopher explains how training has played a vital part in developing the skills he has built up through a lifetime spent in the country.

Peter Nailon, Field Project Officer, BTCV

Formerly working in warehouse and logistics management, Peter Nailon made a life changing decision to train to be a dry stone waller. He now teaches people of all ages to develop one of Britain's traditional heritage skills which helps to maintain Britain's iconic countryside.