26 June 2024

Anyone interested in joining Wye Coppice as a trainee for this cutting season needs to get their applications in before the deadline on 1 July 2024!

If you’re serious about joining us in the woods next season, make sure to get to grips with the job spec and highlight to us why you’re passionate about practical, hands-on woodland management.

Our 2023 trainee intake had a baptism of fire as the weather last winter was pretty unrelenting. So we’ve emphasised this in the 2024 advert, as we just can’t predict what the skies will throw at you. The pay-off is knowing that spring and summer will be verdant and lush as you return to the sites you worked in the colder months – as chainsaw novices willing to take on the challenge – and focus on making products for sale.

One of our 2023 trainees said: “I saw that the advert had changed slightly for this year’s traineeship…” We asked, would she still apply and do it, based on what she now knows about the job? “Yes, I definitely would. Working with the team leaders was great, I learnt a lot from them.”

Some of our trainees are now looking to get academic qualifications, others have fully thrown themselves into the life of a woodland worker and the summer task of charcoal making. We are incredibly proud of the progress these guys made since last September, and along the way they’ve enhanced woodland habitats not only in the lower Wye Valley, but also further afield. This is practical work, but trainees will also get to attend and help facilitate educational sessions, where they can deepen their theoretical understanding of why we manage woodlands. We’re really looking forward to working with more eager entrants to the industry, and grateful for support from the Wye Valley National Landscape that has enabled us to offer these placements.