Current Qualifications available at Grozone
Roots to Wellbeing (City & Guilds Level 1 Award in Practical Horticulture Skills)
A few places are still available on Grozone’s current 'Roots to Wellbeing' course, with opportunities to enrol up to Wednesday 3rd November. Sessions will run weekly every Wednesday between 9.30am and 3.30pm until Wednesday 21st November 2018.
The course is supported through Cheshire West and Chester Council's Skills and Employment Team, and learners are usually eligible for a fully funded, free place on the course if they meet all of the following criteria:
- aged 19+,
- unemployed and looking eventually to move into paid work or working less than 16 hours per week
- receiving JSA, ESA or Universal Credit
A limited number of funded places are also available for people who don't meet these criteria, but would benefit from gaining a qualification in horticulture or by gaining transferrable skills.
The first step towards joining the course is to contact us using the details below. Then we will invite you to visit Grozone for an initial advice and guidance (IAG) session where we will explain more about how the course runs and help you decide whether it suits your needs . This session is also a chance to check your eligibility for a funded place and complete the course registration and induction process.
To gain the Level 1 Award you’ll need to attend all sessions and pass assessments in three of the optional units. These cover themes of 'food growing' and 'garden maintenance' and depending on the time of year, you’ll be able to choose from topics such as: ground cultivation; seed sowing; watering; mulching and caring for planted areas; hedge and shrub pruning; maintaining hand tools; maintaining paved areas; using mowers and strimmers; and tree and plant identification.
The course should be valuable to anyone who is interested in gardening at home or at an allotment or community-based garden and provides a good starting point for anyone considering working in horticulture as a career. It can also be helpful for people with little recent workplace or teamwork experience as many of the skills are transferrable to other working environments. We support learners in setting goals for their own development within the course and offer help in identifying opportunities for them to gain further skills, qualifications or experience.
Grozone Community Garden provides an excellent venue for this course, as it creates a supportive, inclusive working and learning environment which also provides regular volunteering opportunities for local people of all ages, backgrounds and abilities. Many of our learners begin as Grozone volunteers and choose to take part in the course to help learn skills in a more structured way. Several other learners who joined the course with no prior involvement at Grozone have continued after the course as volunteers.
We also have a webpage on this site which provides web-links to some useful learning resources for the course. Please click here to view.
For more information and to book an initial advice and guidance (IAG) session, please contact Pete Attwood by phone or text on 07841 339983 or by email at: [email protected]
A few places are still available on Grozone’s current 'Roots to Wellbeing' course, with opportunities to enrol up to Wednesday 3rd November. Sessions will run weekly every Wednesday between 9.30am and 3.30pm until Wednesday 21st November 2018.
The course is supported through Cheshire West and Chester Council's Skills and Employment Team, and learners are usually eligible for a fully funded, free place on the course if they meet all of the following criteria:
- aged 19+,
- unemployed and looking eventually to move into paid work or working less than 16 hours per week
- receiving JSA, ESA or Universal Credit
A limited number of funded places are also available for people who don't meet these criteria, but would benefit from gaining a qualification in horticulture or by gaining transferrable skills.
The first step towards joining the course is to contact us using the details below. Then we will invite you to visit Grozone for an initial advice and guidance (IAG) session where we will explain more about how the course runs and help you decide whether it suits your needs . This session is also a chance to check your eligibility for a funded place and complete the course registration and induction process.
To gain the Level 1 Award you’ll need to attend all sessions and pass assessments in three of the optional units. These cover themes of 'food growing' and 'garden maintenance' and depending on the time of year, you’ll be able to choose from topics such as: ground cultivation; seed sowing; watering; mulching and caring for planted areas; hedge and shrub pruning; maintaining hand tools; maintaining paved areas; using mowers and strimmers; and tree and plant identification.
The course should be valuable to anyone who is interested in gardening at home or at an allotment or community-based garden and provides a good starting point for anyone considering working in horticulture as a career. It can also be helpful for people with little recent workplace or teamwork experience as many of the skills are transferrable to other working environments. We support learners in setting goals for their own development within the course and offer help in identifying opportunities for them to gain further skills, qualifications or experience.
Grozone Community Garden provides an excellent venue for this course, as it creates a supportive, inclusive working and learning environment which also provides regular volunteering opportunities for local people of all ages, backgrounds and abilities. Many of our learners begin as Grozone volunteers and choose to take part in the course to help learn skills in a more structured way. Several other learners who joined the course with no prior involvement at Grozone have continued after the course as volunteers.
We also have a webpage on this site which provides web-links to some useful learning resources for the course. Please click here to view.
For more information and to book an initial advice and guidance (IAG) session, please contact Pete Attwood by phone or text on 07841 339983 or by email at: [email protected]