Director John Grimshaw leaves the Yorkshire Arboretum

Dr John Grimshaw, Director of the Yorkshire Arboretum since 2012, has been appointed Editor-in Chief of Curtis’s Botanical Magazine by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and will leave the arboretum at the end of September. Chair of Trustees Greville Worthington said...

Northern Branch Commendation 2024 awarded to Marian Foster

The Chartered Institute of Horticulture’s Northern Branch Commendation for 2024 has been awarded to the broadcaster Marian Foster. Marian will be a familiar voice to many as the long-running host of BBC Radio Newcastle’s ‘Garden Mania’ programme. The Commendation was...

Survey on First Aid Certificates in apprenticeships

We need your help The agriculture, arboriculture, countryside, forestry, horticulture & landscaping trailblazer groups are checking the approach taken to mandating first aid certificates in apprenticeship standards. Currently some occupational standards limit...