ENVIRONMENTAL charity Groundwork North East has bought a tree nursery to extend its training services to ex-offenders. The social enterprise, which improves the lives of people living across the region, has acquired Butterwick Tree Nursery Community Interest Company, near Sedgefield, County Durham.

The nursery, which sells locally grown and sourced trees, provides training for ex-offenders on behalf of Durham and Tees Valley Probation Service and has been delivering this in conjunction with East Durham College and A4E.

The University of Salford and the low carbon business support company, Envirolink have joined forces in creating a major new initiative to deliver cutting-edge skills to people working in the energy and buildings industry.

The new collaboration, which will include both University and Envirolink staff working together on the Salford campus, will deliver a range of courses and workshops to help individuals and organisations of all sizes reduce their carbon emissions and energy costs from buildings. The collaboration will also work with companies to upskill the industry and adapt to the fast growing and changing market demands.

MARA Region is hosting a unique Environmental Education Centre (EEC) tipped to be best environmental training centre for secondary school students across East and Central Africa African states.

Strategically located in western Serengeti, EEC targets secondary students, who come from Serengeti and Bunda districts in the lake zone region. The districts host a large part of the world heritage of Serengeti National Park.

The major aim of EEC, which started accommodating students from the two districts in August 2009 is to impart both theoretical and practical skills on conservation to young men and women pursuing secondary education.

Groundwork Pennine Lancashire is one of the largest environmental training providers in the North West. We have over 12 years experience in delivering training and run both accredited and non accredited courses in a variety of environmental subjects.  All of our training consultants are active environmental practitioners who use their knowledge and experience to assist North West businesses with their environmental issues and develop new training offerings to meet their needs.

At Groundwork Pennine Lancashire we pride ourselves on being able to offer bespoke training courses at a location to suit you –whether on-site at your premises or at our dedicated training centre in Lancashire.  We can even make all the arrangements to carry out the training at a third party venue of your choice.