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Lauren scores a first for wildlife charity

Northumberland Wildlife Trust now has its first successful apprentice in post, and is hoping to roll out an apprenticeship scheme across the whole organisation.

Searching on the website of the National Apprenticeship Service (part of the Skills Funding Council), Lauren spotted the Trust’s advertisement for a People & Wildlife Apprentice, and the rest, as they say, is history.

Lauren is now the Trust’s People & Wildlife Apprentice and very involved with the Acorns to Oaks project with military families and the Stanley Smith (UK) Horticultural Trust project at the wildlife charity’s urban reserve in Gosforth, Newcastle as well as developing teaching materials for use by her colleagues in the People & Wildlife Team.

Northumberland College is the training provider for Lauren’s apprenticeship offering advice on her personal development programme and supporting her as she studies for an NVQ Level II in Environmental Conservation.

Speaking about Lauren’s appointment, Lou Chapman, Northumberland Wildlife Trust Volunteer Co-ordinator said: “Lauren’s appointment is one of the first apprenticeships in the Trust and judging by the large number of applications for the position it proved to be very popular.

“Ideally, we would really like to be able to roll the apprenticeship scheme out across the whole organisation as staff here have a wealth of knowledge and skills which they would love to pass on to the next generation of young people.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Sue Bishop .