LandSkills East, can announce today 3rd November 2009 that farmers and associated rural businesses in the East will benefit from £1m of RDPE funding this winter. This comes at the time when we are delighted to announce over 100 courses have now been made available and more are being added each day.
Farmers and associated rural businesses across the region will be able to access up to 65% funding towards training activities, study visits and more, through the LandSkills East programme.
David Lawrence Principal of Easton College, who manage the delivery of LandSkills East.
“ Developing the skills of staff is key for any business, however the cost of training and the ability to afford the time to train is always difficult especially during a recession. We are pleased that this winter there is funding to help farming businesses to spread their training budgets further. We are also delighted to see the diversity of courses currently being offered by the partners of LandSkills East and how the courses have been designed to fit with the businesses needs. I encourage employers to take up these opportunities to help improve their own business competitiveness”
The ever changing courses on offer range from Energy Efficiency to Biodiversity, Livestock Transportation to Dairy Herd Management, Business Coaching to Leadership and Innovation, Managing Poor Performance to Team Working. The variety covers both vocational courses and management and leadership courses aimed at those working in the industry at this time but also attracting new entrants into farming and rural businesses through the programme.
Elveden Estate Farm Manager, Lindsay Hargreaves, who received funding through the programme, describes his spring 2009 MBA-style short management course at Cranfield University as “life changing”.
Lindsay said: ‘My primary motivation for taking part in a programme of this sort was the recognition that the pattern of rural business is changing rapidly. Rural leaders need not only to grasp a wider range of business skills, but also to understand better how to function within increasingly complex organisations. The bursary that I received from Landskills East was enormously beneficial in helping me to fund this important piece of personal and business skills development’.
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