CMA Events & Training

Tuesday 27th April 2010 10am – 3.30pm
Tamar Valley Centre, Drakewalls, Gunnislake, Cornwall. PL18 9FE
5 mins walk from Gunnislake Station, off A390 at petrol station at the top of Gunnislake Hill

The aim of this training day is for participants to gain enough knowledge to return to their sites and set up a basic monitoring scheme which can also be fed into Butterfly Conservations records

9.45 – 10.15 Registration and welcome, tea and coffee available
10.15 – 1pm introduction to butterflies and butterfly monitoring led by Ian Middlebrook of Butterfly Conservation.
1pm – 1.45 Lunch. Please bring packed lunch, there is a shop nearby to buy pasties etc.
1.45 Leave centre for site visit to Greenscoobe Wood where there is an established transect for monitoring heath fritillaries.
3.30pm Finish (in time for the return train to Plymouth)

CMA Members £FREE
Non-members £35 (includes free CMA membership)

To book please contact CMA Administration:
Writtle College, Lordship Road, Writtle, Chelmsford, Essex, CM1 3RR
Tel: 01245 424116
e-mail: cma@writtle.ac.uk

Tuesday 23rd March 2010

Hauxley Nature Reserve. Hauxley Links, Low Hauxley Northumberland on 23rd March 2010

10.00 a.m. for 10.30 start

1pm Lunch - Please bring your own lunch, tea and coffee will be provided

3 – 3.30p.m. Finish

This is an opportunity to hear about how Northumberland Wildlife Trust have approached partnership working, and a chance to learn more about techniques for managing wetlands. The day will include some background information about their partnerships, which are key to managing the site, plus a visit to the wetlands areas and reed beds, where you’ll also hear more about their future hopes for the partnership. There will also be time for any questions you may have.

CMA Members Free

Non Members £35

To book please contact CMA Administration:
Writtle College, Lordship Road, Writtle, Chelmsford, Essex, CM1 3RR
Tel: 01245 424116
e-mail: cma@writtle.ac.uk

Suffolk Wildlife Trust, Carlton Marshes Education Centre,
Burnt Hill Lane, Carlton Colville, Lowestoft, NR33 8HU

Carlton Marshes is a lowland reserve in the Waveney valley. It contains over 100 acres of important habitats, including flower rich meadows, wet grassland, reedbeds, marsh and alder woodland and forms the first reserve to come into the Suffolk Wildlife Trust ownership in this living landscape.
The Suffolk Wildlife Trust’s “Suffolk Broads Living Landscape” aims to restore, recreate and reconnect core areas of habitat in the Lower Waveney Valley. The vision is a joined up landscape where there is connectivity between habitats allowing species to expand their range and move through a wildlife-rich countryside. A targeted approach is key to success, enabling significant landscape links to be made through encouraging small-scale, achievable actions by farmers and landowners.

10.00am – Welcome and introduction by Broads Reserves Warden, Matt Gooch

10.30am – A walk around Oulton marshes nature reserve and the extensive river bank works there and a chat about the proposed site management of the new reserve.

12.30-1.15 Lunch. Bring a packed lunch

1.15 pm After lunch return to the Education Centre where Ranger Colin Hart will make a presentation on the Junior Ranger project he has been running now for 6 years at the Broads Authority. This started as a EUROPARC initiative and Colin will also give some background on recent developments

3.30pm A short walk around Carlton marshes nature reserve for those who wish it and/or refreshments before departure

CMA Members FREE Non-members £35 (includes free CMA membership)

To book please contact CMA Administration:
Writtle College, Lordship Road, Writtle, Chelmsford, Essex, CM1 3RR
Tel: 01245 424116
e-mail: cma@writtle.ac.uk

Woodland Room, Worcester Woods Country Park, Wildwood
Drive, Worcester WR5 2LG

This study day will introduce participants to the Country Park Accreditation
scheme and follow the process of completing an application from the
applicant's perspective. Worcester Woods Country Park, the first accredited
country park in England, will be used as a case study.

The study day will be run by Worcestershire County Council countryside
management staff who have both successfully gone through the process and
offered a practitioners view throughout its design and development, alongside
Natural England staff who lead on the management and development of the
scheme.

It is aimed at managers of country parks and sites with similar functions who
want to learn more about the scheme and the nitty gritty of submitting an
application. This will be a fairly informal day with plenty of opportunity for
questions and discussion.

This study day costs £50, which will include drinks. 10 free places are
available to CMA and CRN members, offered on a first come first served
basis, with a limit on one free place per organisation. To obtain a booking
form or for further information please contact Joanne Barrow at
jbarrow@worcestershire.gov.uk or call her on 01905 766491.

09:30 Welcome & Introductions
09:45 Standards & Quality – why are they important?
10:15 Why have accreditation?
the benefits of accreditation; outline of the roots and development of
the scheme; relationship to other schemes, such as the Green Flag
Award
10:45: Break
11:00 An overview of the process
finding out about the scheme; what you need to do to submit an
application – mandatory/optional information; what happens after
application; after accreditation; benefits of scale
12:00 Lunch please bring your own or enjoy something from the Orchard
Café on site. Café staff will be happy to take your order and payment in the
morning so that your lunch is ready on time. Preview their menu at
http://theorchardcafe.co.uk/
12:45 Workshops
A real application workshop

This will be an interactive session going through the Worcester Woods
application. It will include looking at the actual application and going out
around the Country Park looking at what was used as evidence. This is an
opportunity to get an insight into what assessors are looking for and how you
can demonstrate that your site meets the requirements.
Site surgery
If you have started an application and got stuck this is an opportunity to get
guidance and advice directly from Natural England assessors and a site
manager who has gone through the process. We will provide direct help with
your application, however the time we can spend on each application will be
shared out according to demand.
If you are interested in benefiting from this surgery please indicate this on
your booking form, giving the name of your country park and, if you can,
details of elements of your application that you would like to explore or are
stuck on. This session will run alongside the 'Real Application' workshop,
which you will be able to participate in as well.
15:15 Summing Up & Final Questions
15:30 End

www.worcestershire.gov.uk

Wild Ennerdale covers 4,300 ha with the three main landowners The Forestry Commission, Natural Trust and United Utilities. The three partners bring different aspects and skills to Wild Ennerdale. The Forestry Commission manages the majority of the woodland in the valley in addition to the grassland in the central valley and fells between Pillar and Side Wood, The National Trust manages most of the grassland west of Ennerdale Water along with Herdus and the Fell land to the north and at head of the valley along with the fell land to the south of Ennerdale Water, United Utilities manages Ennerdale Water along with a treatment plant, car park and grassland around Bleach Green.

The partnership has agreed a number of overall objectives and guiding principals for Wild Ennerdale which along with the vision statement provides the overriding guidance in developing Wild Ennerdale.

CMA Members £FREE
Non-members £35 (includes free CMA membership)

To book please contact CMA Administration:
Writtle College, Lordship Road, Writtle, Chelmsford, Essex, CM1 3RR
Tel: 01245 424116
e-mail: cma@writtle.ac.uk