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Conservation Volunteers Northern Ireland is offering places on the two new DEL training programmes, Training for Success and ApprenticeshipsNI, as well as Training for Employment.

So, if you are an employer, unemployed, employed or have just left school and you want to work outdoors in a horticultural trade (as a gardener, in parks, grounds maintenance, greenkeeper, in garden centres and so on), we will have something for you.

For Training for Success you do not need any qualifications to join, and you get a training allowance with a work placement while you work towards your qualification.

ApprenticeshipsNI offers opportunities to both employees and employers! If you are employed in the horticultural trades you can train towards relevant qualifications. If you are an employer you could up-skill your existing workforce. The cost of training is being met by DEL.

Look forward to a spring flower show
It's still summer (despite the rain), but some of us are already thinking of spring! When our winters draw to a close, it can feel like spring will never arrive, but when it finally does, it's the bulbs that usually appear first to brighten the days.
Read about spring bulbs

New community project in Larne
Conservation Volunteers are inviting community groups in Larne to get involved in a short term environmental project. The 'Environments for All' project is funded by the Larne Local Strategy Partnership and will run during August and September 2008. If you would like to get involved, please find out more and get in touch.

Drumduff Boardwalk
Volunteers in our South Tyrone Conservation Action Team have recently started a pathwork project at the Flax Mill Community Centre, Drumduff, between Omagh and Carrickmore. They are building a new path that will wind its way through a birch woodland and then out onto a peat bog.
More about the boardwalk

L/Derry office in bloom!
The local L/Derry office were recently awarded a Commendation in the office category in the "City Centre in Bloom" 2008 initiative. Staff and volunteers at the office have been busy creating and looking after flower planters to decorate their little part of the city.
Read the story

New roads from old
Our Tree Nursery has begun to use an excellent new material for road building, path making, etc. This is a mixture of old tarmac, bits of flags and stones of various sizes but, with the majority being easily workable tarmac, can be spread with little bother.
Find out more about recycled aggregates

New community garden in Ballymurphy
Conservation Volunteers have helped create a new community garden in Ballymurphy. The project involved pupils from two local primary schools, St Aidan’s and St Bernadette’s and staff from the local Intervention project.
Read about the new garden

Nature's First Friends
The official opening has taken place of Sure Start's "First Friends" nature garden. The garden has, as well as environmental features, also a safety surface, to provide a protected play area for the children.
Read about another great garden

Bulbs available to order
If you read about bulbs at the beginning of this newsletter, here's a reminder that the deadline for ordering some from us is approaching. Our Wildflower Nursery can supply the following bulbs: bluebell, wood anemone, ramsons (wild garlic) and lesser celandine (all native), along with wild daffodil and snowdrop. All bulbs must be ordered by the end of August.
Visit the Wildflower Nursery - Download a price list (PDF - 183KB)

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