Training & Development

Build practical skills, develop your knowledge and prepare for your next role in the countryside and field sports sector.

Build your skills for a rural career

Training can make a real difference whether you are trying to enter the industry, broaden your practical experience or keep your professional knowledge up to date.

Rural Recruits has traditionally signposted work seekers to recognised industry organisations and colleges providing gamekeeping, countryside and rural-skills training.

Training Colleges

Rural Recruits works with and signposts work seekers towards a number of respected land-based colleges offering routes into gamekeeping, countryside management, wildlife management and related rural careers.

Course availability changes from year to year, so use the links below to view the latest training options directly with each college.

Askham Bryan College

North Yorkshire & Cumbria

Land and wildlife training including a Level 3 Gamekeeping route, with practical countryside and wildlife-management experience.

Bishop Burton College

East Yorkshire

Countryside Management and Underkeeper training designed around practical land, wildlife and estate-management skills.

Plumpton College

East Sussex

Countryside and environmental training with practical estate, habitat-management and rural-industry content.

Reaseheath College

Cheshire

Conservation and wildlife-management programmes combining practical estate skills, habitat management and work placements.

Myerscough College

Lancashire

Land and Wildlife courses covering conservation, countryside skills and routes into gamekeeping and commercial land-management careers.

Sparsholt College

Hampshire

Specialist Game and Wildlife Management training with strong links to gamekeeping, deer management and estate work.