City & Guilds Practical Horticulture Qualification Q&A

Are you interested in a City & Guilds Practical Horticulture Qualification? Do you have questions about the course, its content or how it can benefit your career in horticulture?

Join us for an online Q&A session where we can answer all your questions!

What to expect:

• An overview of the City & Guilds Practical Horticulture Qualification
• A brief introduction into STAA and it's project sites on the Grade II listed St Ann's Allotments where the course is facilitated.
• An insight into the course units and its structure.
• Information on how the qualification is recognised within the industry and how it might benefit you.
• A chance to ask specific questions about the course, enrolment process and more.

We offer two routes into the qualification highlighted below where you can achieve either an award, certificate or diploma.

Grow Your Own - This essential gardening course will develop learners’ skills in growing vegetables and flowers from seed, maintaining growing spaces and improving soil fertility, rearing soft fruit bushes and canes and harvesting produce.

Pro Gardener - Focusing on fundamental practical skills in horticulture, this professional gardening course enables learners to develop skills such as pruning, planting out, pedestrian-operated tool use and plant identification.

Our next course start date will be January 2025 - limited places available for this enrolment!

Visit our website here for further information on our courses.

If you have any questions about the course please contact us at [email protected]

This course is ran by STAA, a small charity that manages a number of highly regarded projects across 30+ plots at St Ann's Allotments that provide community benefit and offer a wide variety of volunteering opportunities.

Host or Publisher STAA