BTCV Training

Our Purpose

VISION: A better environment where people are valued, included and involved.

MISSION: To create a more sustainable future by inspiring people and improving places.

VALUES: BTCV 's values are integral to all our work. They have been developed through four decades of a 'hands-on ' approach to conservation activities. During this time we have adapted to meet the changing needs of communities, we care about people, the communities in which they live and the quality of their environment.

Our key values

• Sustained environmental improvement: A healthy environment and improved biodiversity is at the heart of all BTCV 's activities.
• Inclusiveness, accessibility and choice: BTCV is sensitive to people 's needs, their environmental awareness, personal values and beliefs, and is striving to be accessible to all.
• Appropriate support: BTCV understands that individuals and local communities require different types of support.
• Individual and community empowerment: BTCV inspires people to fulfil their potential.
• Corporate responsibility: BTCV provides a safe, healthy working environment for our staff and volunteers, with development opportunities to meet their personal aspirations.

The Organisation

BTCV specialises in working with people within their communities to bring about positive environmental change in both rural and urban settings. Working through a wide range of partnerships, BTCV has over 40 years experience of managing volunteer programmes, developing and delivering community support, and running employment and training initiatives.

BTCV initially developed conservation volunteering as a means to achieve an environmental goal. A bigger picture is now emerging where conservation volunteering is also becoming a focus for the achievement of wider social goals, such as tackling social exclusion, and encouraging personal development and lifelong learning. BTCV 's Guiding Principles are to:

• Increase the number of people and communities that have the capacity and abilities to change their environment positively and sustainabley.
• Reach an increasingly diverse range of people defined by culture, geography or personal circumstances, by listening and responding to their needs.
• Provide relevant solutions for communities that take full account of local dynamics and individual situations.
• Validate and advocate the links between practical environmental action, health, well-being, skills for life, civil renewal, employment and citizenship.
• Promote and publicise the value of environmental volunteering in social and economic regeneration.

BTCV Merseyside Enhanced Environmental Training Project

A programme of free and low cost practical environmental skills training for individuals and businesses in Merseyside.

If you live or work in Liverpool, Sefton, Knowsley, St Helens or the Wirral and are over the age of 16yrs you could be eligible for free or subsidised training. Our training courses are listed on our website along with dates, prices and venues. There is also an explanation of qualifying criteria for the free or subsidised places.

BTCV training delivers helps increase employability and is proven in terms of helping people to gain jobs.

Qualifications which you could gain include:-

NCFE - a range of short environmental and conservation courses
NPTC - National Proficiency Tests Council - Pesticides
LANTRA - Strimmer and Brushcutter, Woodchipper
HSE - Health and Safety Executive Council - First Aid at Work

For further details and information on accessing training through the MEET project your needs please click on the web-link http://www2.btcv.org.uk/display/nw_meet or call Richard Austin on 07764 655622.