About Lantra
Lantra is the Sector Skills Council for the environmental and land-based industries, licensed by the UK Government as one of 25 Sector Skills Councils.
Its role is to identify and tackle skills gaps across the whole of the United Kingdom for the following industries: land-management and production, animal health and welfare, and environmental industries.
Lantra helps individuals working in the sector to have the right skills and knowledge to carry out their jobs safely and effectively and for businesses to have a workforce that can enhance productivity and performance.
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Achiever Plus for YFC Members
What is Achiever Plus and why should I join?
YCF members do many good things and strive to achieve personal goals and objectives. It makes sense therefore, to recognise all your hard work and use it as a launch-pad for your future career.
Achiever Plus is planned to join up with other national land-based industry skills recording and CPD systems, which will allow you to easily transfer all your records in the future when you leave YFC.
Achiever Plus gives you the opportunity to record all this information in one place, on a modern electronic system and update it as often as you like. It can be used throughout your career and working life.
What Achiever Plus can do for you:
Plan your career - the system links with national job roles and career pathways so you can see what a particular job entails, what you can earn, the skills you need and the way you can progress in the future- Find the right training - linked to UK wide training providers, you can find the right training near to you
- Record your qualifications, personal skills and YFC training - record and scan in all your achievements so they can be easily accessed in one place
- CPD recording - record all the activities you do to show you are keeping up-to-date with industry and develop professionalism
- Share your information with others - you can give people/companies access to your information to show your achievements
- CV Builder - easily produce a CV from your existing information so you can look professional when you apply for jobs.
Find out more:
To join up to Achiever Plus visit the NYFYC website www.yfcskills.co.uk .If you need any help signing in to the system, contact Helen Pettipher at Lantra on: 02476 69 69 96 ext: 303.
Funding for skills
Rural Development Programme for England
The RPDE aims to safeguard and enhance our countryside, to improve the competitiveness and sustainability of our rural businesses, and help communities to thrive. 
The Rural Development Programme for England (RDPE) is a funding scheme for land-based businesses (farmers, growers, foresters, and primary processors), rural tourism organisations and other small rural businesses.- Seminars
- Business clubs
- Workshops and farm demonstrations
- Support and mentoring
- Technical and management information
- Practical and technical livestock, crop and non-food crop husbandry
- Management and business, including collaboration
- Animal health and welfare
- Study tours
- Food chain and retailing (eg farm shops)
Women and Work
The Women and Work programme offers funding towards training to help women throughout England progress within jobs in the environmental and land-based industries, where women are significantly under-represented.
- agriculture
- environmental conservation
- fencing
- game and wildlife
- horticulture, landscaping and sports turf
- production horticulture
- land-based engineering
- trees and timber
Business Link and county/local council
Business Link operates in all regions and acts as a one stop shop for business advice on grants, business clubs, planning applications, training workshops, and many other things. It has specialist advisers who you can deal with to help provide solutions to your business needs.
