The advancements in the world of land-based activity, concludes a strong demand for skilled workers required to meet market expansion, with scope to upskill current employees in your workforce or recruit new talent into your team.

Agriculture Apprenticeships:

• General Farm Worker Level 2
• Countryside Worker Level 2
• Agriculture (Livestock) Level 3
• Countryside Ranger Level 4

Grounds Apprenticeships:

• Golf Green keeping Level 2
• Horticulture/Landscape Operative Level 2
• Horticulture/Landscape Supervisor Level 3
• Sports Turf Level 2
• Sports Turf Level 3
• Water Environment Worker Level 3

We also have many Apprenticeships applicable across all businesses here.

We also have free Distance Learning courses suitable for all sectors here.

Our Facilities:

BTC offers unrivalled opportunities to get hands-on with the worlds of agriculture, horticulture and landscaping at our Cannington Campus. In recent years, over £10 million has been invested in improving the facilities and residential accommodation, and the resources for land-based training are now considered to be among the most exceptional in the country, providing students with state-of-the-art surroundings for learning and practicing their skills.

Rodway Farm, a 200 hectare mixed farm has a flock of 200 ewes of various breeds, a dairy herd of 250 high-yielding Holsteins and a state-of-the-art milking parlour, providing the most informative and relevant working experience. The Agriculture Innovation Centre is a research centre of excellence that is looking to the future of farming and already working in partnership with industry.

The Walled Gardens of Cannington is a key strand of our Horticulture provision. The gardens are recognised throughout the region as an important tourist attraction. They provide the perfect blend between a viable commercial operations and a wonderful training context, with extensive and varied planting, tropical glasshouses, and a cutting edge aquaponics area.

Meet the team:

• Business & Relationship Manager – Neil Morgan
• Deputy Head – Adam Collett

How does an Apprenticeship programme work?

How else can we help?

Although your business may belong primarily to the land-based sector, that’s unlikely to be its sole focus – you’ll probably have machinery that needs regular maintenance or repair and staff that need looking after, as well as an accounts department, a delivery function, marketing, general admin, customer service – the list is endless.

Increasing the productivity and efficiency of any of these areas could have a really positive impact on profitability, and an Apprenticeship programme is a really cost-effective way of doing that.

We offer a variety of different training solutions to support you with your business and our team will tailor your training requirements to your business needs.

• Work Placements
• Training & Professional Development
• Distance Learning
• Adult courses