Cost: around £390 –450 per person all inclusive - to be confirmed

Background

This is a new course for SCRA – derived from an original 5 day ‘foundation’ course, but now revised and ‘keyed’ into the SCRA Ranger Continuing Professional Development journey.

It is a 3 day residential course bringing together those relatively new to the profession, though more experienced Ranger can gain new insights to their job too. A mix of presentations, participative exercises, and outdoor sessions will provide the context and connections behind the principles, purpose, and practice of today’s Countryside Rangers. It’s an opportunity to explore, learn, and share different ways of working with, and from, other practicing Rangers.

Benefits of attending

Participants will gain an understanding of the national and local contexts within which their daily routine and work objectives must be set and justified. They will meet other Rangers from across the country with whom to share the full benefits of a residential experience - exchanging views and skills with peer professionals, and meet with the session leaders who are experienced Rangers and former Rangers. Participants will take away a network of contacts with whom to share and draw ideas and support in the future.

Participants will gain a secure understanding of the purpose and practice around which the SCRA Ranger Continuing Professional Development journey has been designed, and what their next steps on the journey should be.

Course Outline

The detail of the course programme is still to be finally confirmed, and will be provided in the promotional flyer for the course.

SCRA has brought in the StepAHEAD Associates team (Lynnette Borradaile, Ruth Grant, and Callum McNeill-Ritchie) to facilitate this course, with over 50 years of combined experience as countryside rangers and/ or in ranger training.