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Presentation of the President’s Award 2022

by Rachel Kemp | 30th June 2022 | Institute News | 0 Comments

It gives me great pleasure to make the President’s Award to George Gilchrist FCIHort. George has an outstanding career in horticulture, and has demonstrated an ability to inspire many young people to enter our industry. He started his career with The National Trust...

Early-Career Horticulturist Representative

by Rachel Kemp | 29th June 2022 | Institute News | 0 Comments

About the role The Chartered Institute of Horticulture (CIH) seeks to appoint an Early-Career Horticulturist Representative to our Council of Trustees to represent the key demographics of horticultural students and those beginning their careers in horticulture;...

CIH Education Committee Open Meeting

by Rachel Kemp | 23rd June 2022 | Institute News | 0 Comments

The Chartered Institute of Horticulture (CIH) invites Members who are educators, trainers or just interested in educating the next generation of horticulturists to come along to our online open meeting on Tuesday 26th July at 6pm for the CIH education committee...

DEFRA and the Forestry Commission announce Woodland Creation Accelerator Fund

by Rachel Kemp | 23rd June 2022 | Institute News | 0 Comments

The new fund is designed to provide financial support to help increase the capacity of specialist skills within local authorities thus enabling them to accelerate the delivery of tree planting and woodland creation commitments. All upper tier authorities (county...

DEFRA announces Horticulture Strategy for England

by Rachel Kemp | 15th June 2022 | Institute News | 0 Comments

The Government published its Food Strategy White Paper on 13th June 2022. To be included within this is the Government's Horticulture Strategy For England (HSFE section 1.3.3.). The HSFE will examine the diverse roles of small, large, and emerging growing models, and...

Ancient Tree Forum and the Arboricultural Association to receive £367,770 from the Trees Call to Action Fund

by Rachel Kemp | 10th June 2022 | Institute News | 0 Comments

Ancient Tree Forum (ATF) and the Arboricultural Association (AA) have been awarded agrant for the project ‘Training and certifying professionals in AoVT (Ancient and otherVeteran Trees) management’ from the £6 million Trees Call to Action Fund, led by Defra,the...