Details of gardening and other courses will appear here when available.
WEN Courses 2011-2012
Running at Wirral Environment Centre, Falkland Road, Wallasey CH44 8ER
Gardening for beginners
Enrolment Day 13th Sept
Tuesdays 9.30 - 11.30
The aim of the course is to give you the confidence to manage, plan and develop any garden in an environmentally-friendly manner. Course runs over 3 terms; £50 per term/£10 fee for most on income-based benefits.
The productive garden
Enrolment Day 13th Sept
Tuesdays 12 - 2 OR 2.15 - 4.15
The main aim of this course is to enable you to build the basics of a garden for growing vegetables and fruit and how to plant and propagate fruit trees and bushes. Course runs over 3 terms; £50 per term/£10 fee for most on income-based benefits.
Open to all, for more information on either of these, telephone 630 3486
Garden Volunteers' Day
Every Tuesday from 10.00am in the Plants On Plates Community Garden. Travel expenses paid. Please phone the garden manager Jeff Hughes on 0151 639 2121 or email info@la21.net for further details.
Other community allotments currently running are:
Wednesday Mornings 10am - 1pm, in the walled garden at Central Park Wallasey.
Woodchurch Community garden - a garden outside the Library and Ganneys Meadow Early Learning Centre. Planning sessions are held at the Methodist Centre on the last Thursday of the month 3-4pm and the work changes monthly.
Or if you are in the Tranmere area, why not drop into Tranmere Alliances allotment, details from their office on Church Road.
Trafford Hall
Subsidised environmental training courses for community volunteers from all over the UK, at Trafford Hall in Chester.
Bee Keeping (two part course)
Part one - 2nd - 3rd February 2012, Part two - 29th May 2012
Trainer - Highfield Apiary
This two part course will teach you everything you need to know to start bee keeping. The first part will be classroom based where you will learn all the theory of bee keeping. The second part of the course will be a more practical session where you will get close up to a colony of bees and watch a demonstration of the trainer handling a live bee hive. There is no additional charge for the second part of the course.
Honey for Nothing and Your Chicks for Free (Environmental Freebies course)
7th - 8th February 2012
Trainers - Engage Associates
Based on our successful 'Freebies' course, this training will focus on finding support, money and materials for environmental projects. You will find out what is available free, what you can match fund (including your time as a volunteer), how you can get local and national companies to help with materials and business skills. You will go away inspired!
Setting Up a Social Enterprise
15th - 16th February 2012
Trainers - Daryl Moore and Eileen Wakefields
With a lot of communities looking to become more self sufficient, social enterprises are becoming more and more popular. On this course you will learn the basics in setting up your own social enterprise, and will go away with a clear action plan for your project.
Thanks to generous funding from the Tudor Trust we can offer these courses for only £50 for the first community volunteer booking on and £20 for every additional community volunteer booking from the same organisation. This price not only includes the training but also all meals and refreshments during your stay and one nights accommodation in one of our en-suite bedrooms at Trafford Hall.
There is a small grant fund attached to this programme so after completing the course you will have the opportunity of applying for a grant of up to £500 to help your community project progress.
If you would like any more information on any of these courses or are interested in booking a place then please contact Gary Dutton on 01244 300246 or e-mail The.National.Communities.Resource.Centre@cmp.dotmailer.co.uk
Swap Day Training
The fame of Wirral's 'Swap Days' is spreading!
Swap Days, sometimes known as 'Give & Take Days' are like attic sales with a collection and delivery service for large items and with no money changing hands!
Swap Days are a great way to find new homes for items no longer needed but far too good to put in the bin.
You can increase awareness of recycling and make a social occasion of it at the same time!
Want to run one in your area?
We now offer four-hour training days on Saturdays at a very competitive price to any interested group in Merseyside, Wirral or Chester.
Ring 0151 639 2121 for full details.
Ness Gardens 2011
Ness offers short courses and workshops both themselves and in partnership with the University of Liverpool Continuing Education Department and the Welsh College of Horticulture.
Discover Gardening
Starting on the Friday 7th October
An introductory gardening course.
10 Week course, £60/£55 Concessions
A Guide to Growing Fruit
Saturday 5th November 10am to 3pm
One day workshop, £20/£18 Concessions
Organic Gardening
Starting on Friday 6th January
6 Week course, 9.30-12.00; £50/£45 Concessions
Grow your Own
Starting on Friday 24th February
6 Week course, 9.30-12.00; £50/£45 Concessions
Grow Your Own
Saturday 3th to Sunday 4th March
Same as above course, repeated as a weekend course over two days.
10.00 -16.00; £45/£40 Concessions.
The full programme including courses on Botany for Gardeners, Pruning, Propagation, Garden Design and Growing and Cooking with Herbs will be available on the Ness website soon. www.nessgardens.org.uk
Ness Gardens, Neston Road, Ness, Neston, South Wirral CH64 4AY
0151 353 0123, email nessgdns@liv.ac.uk