BASIS COURSES:
BASIS Certificate in Crop Protection
Dates for our 2024/2025 Course: 21st & 22nd October, 4th & 5th, 18th & 19th November, 16th & 17th December, 6th & 7th, 20th & 21st January, 3rd & 17th February 2025.
Exams: 24th & 25th February 2025.
FACTS
Dates for our Sept 2024 Course: 5th, 6th, 19th, 20th, 26th & 27th September 2024.
On-line Exams: 2nd & 3rd October 2024
Dates for our Jan 2025 Course: 22nd & 23rd Jan, 4th, 5th, 18th & 24th February 2025.
On-line Exams: dates yet TBC with BASIS.
BASIS Advanced Cereals
Our 2024 Course has now finished. Dates yet TBC for our 2025 Course.
BASIS Soil & Water Management
Dates for our 2024/2025 Course: 2nd & 3rd December, 16th & 17th January 2025.
Revision Day: 27th January. Exams: 28th & 29th January 2025.
OTHER LANDBASED COURSES:
Courses are run as numbers become viable, if you require training in any of the following please register an interest. There may be other people already on our waiting lists:
* ATV (Sit Astride)
* ATV (Sit in)/ Mule
* Argocat
* Abrasive Wheels - 4th November, 5th February 2025
* Basic Tree Survey & Inspection
* Brushcutters/strimmers
* Chainsaws:
Clearing Saws up to and over 50mm
2 day Maintenance & Crosscutting
1 day Maintenance & Crosscutting Refresher
3 day Maintenance, Crosscutting & Felling (up to 200mm)
2 day Maintenance, Crosscutting & Felling (up to 200mm) Refresher
5 day Maintenance, Crosscutting & Felling (up to 380mm) with NPTC 30/31 assessments
Maintenance, Crosscutting & Felling (up to 380mm) Refresher
* Defibrillator Training (2 hour sessions) - please contact us as these can be run as in-house groups or for a community/at Village Halls etc.
* Emergency First Aid at Work/First Aid + Forestry - 18th September, 7th October, 12th November, 18th December
* Fire Safety Training (half-day course)
* Fork Lift Trucks:
Industrial or Telescopic, and Telescopic/Industrial (Refresher)
Loader Shovel & Loader Shovel Refresher Training
Sideloader Lift Trucks
Pivot Steer Lift Trucks
Reach Lift Trucks
Ride-on-Roller
180 degree & 360 degree Excavators (wheeled or tracked)
Cranes
Lorry Loader
Lifting Supervisor / Appointed Person
* Hand Held Hedge Trimmer
* Leaf Blowers
* Manual Handling (half-day course)
* MEWP (Mobile Elevated Work Platforms - e.g. Cherry Pickers)
* Mowers
* Pesticide Training:
PA1 Safe Use of Pesticides - 14th November, 20th November, 10th February 2025
PA2a Field Crop - 18th November
PA6/PA6AW Knapsack - 25th November, 6th December
* Powered Pole Pruner
* Stumpgrinders
* Tractor Driving for 13-15 year olds - all summer holiday dates have been booked. Now taking bookings for October half-term and the Christmas holidays.
* Off Road Vehicle Operating 4 x 4
* Woodchipper
* Vermin Control:
Rodent Management - 27th November 2024
PLEASE CONTACT US TO DISCUSS ANY OF THE ABOVE COURSES AS WE TAKE COURSE REQUESTS AND ARRANGE THE COURSES WHEN WE HAVE VIABLE NUMBERS.
