Application Form

The Forestry and Arboriculture Training Fund is now open for new applications for Forestry or Arboriculture training courses to be completed by 31st March 2025.

Please ensure that your application requests grant funding for training to be undertaken between 1st October 2023 and 31st March 2025. Grant funding cannot be provided on a retrospective basis for any training costs already incurred.

UPDATE:
Please note that all available funding for training courses to be completed by 31st March 2024 is currently fully committed. Applications for Instructor Training courses to be completed between 1st April 2024 and 31st March 2025 only are currently being accepted. All other available funding for the Forestry and Arboriculture Training Fund is currently fully allocated.

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Data Processing Notice

The Forestry and Arboriculture Training Fund Programme is funded by the Forestry Commission. The terms of the grant require us to collect and process a range of personal data about the project’s beneficiaries. Further details about this data processing and your rights are set out in the Privacy Notice, a copy of which can be viewed via the following link. You are advised to read the Privacy Notice before completing this form.
Important Information

Please ensure that all fields of the application form are completed in full before submitting.

You can see the current list of registered training providers by viewing the map of Courses and Training Providers.

In order to assist you to complete the application, please ensure that you have the following information available to hand before completing the application form:

  • Details of the course title for which you are requesting grant funding, along with your preferred training provider;
  • Details of the date of the course for which you are requesting grant funding;
  • Details of the cost of the course for which you are requesting grant funding. Please confirm with your training provider whether the cost if the course if inclusive of VAT.

Please ensure that you have checked with your preferred training provider that they have availability for your chosen dates before submitting your application.

Should any information be missing from your application, this may result in a delay to your application being processed, or may result in your application being rejected.

Update: Please note that all available funding for training courses to be completed by 31st March 2024 is currently fully committed. Applications for Instructor Training courses to be completed between 1st April 2024 and 31st March 2025 only are currently being accepted. All other available funding for the Forestry and Arboriculture Training Fund is currently fully allocated.