Training courses and training services
Training with Soil Association Certification
We develop and deliver both FSC® accredited training courses and other training courses under our Excellence for Forests programme. These courses are all aimed at building capacity and technical knowledge for responsible forest management.
Our upcoming 2025 course schedule:
Please see below our planned agenda for the rest of 2025. These courses will be open shortly to register your interest. Once we have received enough interest in a course we will confirm dates and then invite you to book onto the course. If you would like to register your interest please email forestrytraining@soilassociation.org or alternatively find out more about the courses via the links above and enquire via the registration forms on each page.
Beijing, China - April: FSC Chain of Custody and ISO 19011
Vietnam:
FSC Forest Management: 12th-16th May
5 days instructor-led training plus 16-20 hours of e-learning.
Course price: £1050 GBP (inclusive of lunch, refreshments and materials)
All training materials and presentations will be in English and you should only register if you are confident of your language skills for this technical training course. There will be a local Vietnamese representative as part of the UK training team, to facilitate some informal translation during group work etc. The course itself is blended, with self-led eLearning modules to complete ahead of joining the Instructor-led Training.
More details on Forest Management training
FSC Chain of Custody: 19th-23rd May
5 days instructor-led training plus 14-16 hours of e-learning.
Course price: £1050 GBP (inclusive of lunch, refreshments and materials)
All training materials and presentations will be in English and you should only register if you are confident of your language skills for this technical training course. There will be a local Vietnamese representative as part of the UK training team, to facilitate some informal translation during group work etc. The course itself is blended, with self-led eLearning modules to complete ahead of joining the Instructor-led Training.
More details on Chain of Custody training
FSC ISO 19011 remote training to be held via MS Teams in early June 2025
If the FSC Forest Management or Chain of Custody courses are taken in combination with the FSC ISO 19011 course, the blended package price is: £1330
More details on ISO 19011 training
Chile, Concepción - October: FSC Chain of Custody, FSC Forest Management and ISO 19011
China - November: FSC Chain of Custody and ISO 19011
Bristol - February '26: FSC Chain of Custody, FSC Forest Management and ISO 19011
Courses will be held in English unless otherwise stated. In China, courses will be held in both English and Mandarin.
Email forestrytraining@soilassociation.org or register your interest via the below form for further details.
All dates and locations are provisional and subject to change.
For details of the individual courses, including cancellation policy, please click on the course links above.
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