Progress update EE5
Support local training in countryside skills, traditional construction, environmental conservation and sustainable land management and the development, by 2011, of a local centre providing such training opportunities.
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Progress update:
The Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority's Sustainable Development Fund is continuing to support projects offering training in countryside skills and traditional construction. A local School of Drystone Walling at Craven College, Skipton, started in 2009, combines practical construction and maintenance skills with instruction in ecology, archaeology, stone types and sources.
In 2010, the Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust launched a ‘Countryside Trainees’ scheme. Under the scheme, young people are being employed and trained as apprentices in countryside management. The scheme involves public sector bodies (Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority, Natural England), the National Trust, and a number of local businesses.
Last updated September 2011
