The Royal Parks offer a prestigious three year apprenticeship programme for ten apprentices every year.  Recruitment for the programme is very competitive with well over 100 applications being received for the ten places on offer each year. The programme is designed to give the apprentice a high level of horticulture knowledge and with seven Royal Parks across London this is a wonderful opportunity... 

Hi my name is Jamie Adams. I am 24 years old. I used to work for Waitrose. I was there for 5 years and some point during that fifth year I was thinking I am really bored of this job. So I started to think about doing something else. I had recently moved house at the time which had a garden, it needed a lot of work, so me and my brother worked on it and made it look more like a garden. I really enjoyed... 

Capel Manor College has been successfully delivering apprenticeships in horticulture and trees and timber for a considerable number of years. We pride ourselves on delivering high quality training and our success rates have improved steadily over the years.  For 2009/2010 the college achieved an overall success rate of 77% for the apprenticeship programmes against a national minimum performance requirement... 

Capel Manor College attended a careers event at Winchmore Hill Secondary school last Tuesday 8th February to promote apprenticeships as an alternative career pathway for their students. Capel have been offering apprenticeships in horticulture and trees and timber for many years and are now able to offer apprenticeships in environmental conservation. Overall the college saw the event as a great success... 

Why are apprenticeships a good idea? A college, employer and apprentice give their views on how the scheme has worked for them The Government is investing in apprenticeships, with plans to fund 75,000 more adult apprenticeships by 2014. Land-based studies specialists Capel Manor College, based in centres around London, currently has 124 apprentices on Horticulture and Arboriculture apprenticeships...