Lantra is offering women a £650 training grant to enhance their forestry skills through the Women and Work Sector Pathways initiative.
Lantra, the skills council for the environment and land-based sector, said forestry is its related industries is an area where women are under-represented in the workforce and the grant will address this issue.
The grant follows on from a pilot scheme last year, which Lantra said was “hugely popular”. It is available to women of all employment types and needs to be matched by a commitment from the employer of mentoring and training time, and a £250 cash payment.
“The Women and Work programme can fund courses and mentoring programmes to enhance managerial and practical skills, which will help the employee to gain greater job satisfaction and become a more valuable member of the staff to their employer,” said Lantra’s national programme manager Lyndsay Bird.
