Residential 5-month Agricultural Trainee
RSPB Lake Vyrnwy
This RSPB Agricultural 5-month Residential Training Placement is designed to provide you with the training, experience, skills, and knowledge required to pursue a career in nature friendly, sustainable farming.
You will be provided with a wide range of practical skills in a variety of habitats on the reserve and on Vyrnwy’s organic farm. You will be working with the Farm and Conservation team on a weekly rotational rota to gain a balanced and broad understanding on how farming and conservation work together. Alongside this you will have the opportunity to complete a series of modules on sustainable upland agriculture which will broaden your knowledge and understanding of nature friendly farming and complete a variety of Lantra trainings to equip you for a career in this area.
The completion of a training portfolio will allow you to record and subsequently demonstrate your learning to potential employers. On-site accommodation including household bills will be provided free of charge. There is a monthly bursary payment available to help with living expenses and travel (kindly funded by the National Lottery Community Fund).
Vyrnwy’s farm, Ty Llwyd, is the biggest organic farm in England and Wales with 2000 Welsh Mountain ewes, and 600 lambs. The farm also run a herd of Welsh Black Cattle and 56 Carneddau upland ponies.
Lake Vyrnwy has a range of vital habitats including blanket bog, dry heath, acid grassland, and ffridd.
Sustainable agriculture has a key role to play in enabling the protection of habitats, increasing biodiversity, protecting the soil, and improving carbon sequestration.
We want you to feel part of the team managing Vyrnwy’s special places whilst you are gaining essential skills for your future career in sustainable agriculture.
The tasks included in our training placement include a wide range of topics including animal husbandry, sustainable land management of upland and enclosed habitats, species surveying, grazing in the uplands, and natural capital.
A manual driving licence is essential for this role due to the nature of work required and accessing some remote sites.
Minimum age ideally 18 but 17 will be considered with a manual driving licence and the right attitude.
A bursary is included during your training to help with cost of living.
We are open to conversations from anyone who thinks they will suit this role but cannot commit to the full 5 days/week due to studies, we are open to flexibility here so please feel free to contact us.
Applicants may be asked to attend a 'Meet the Team & informal interview day' at Lake Vyrnwy on Wednesday 5th February.
The training will start Monday 24th March and run until Monday 25th August 2025.
At the moment, this opportunity is open to UK residents only.
About RSPB
The RSPB is a charity for the conservation of birds and nature. We bring people together who love birds and other wildlife, and who want to take action to restore the health and diversity of the natural world. We carry out conservation on a large scale, protect and restore habitats, and save species from extinction. We’re living in a nature and climate emergency, and we won’t stop whilst the threats persist.
We believe our work makes a real difference to the world we live in. It takes a great team to
save nature and we need a wide range of skills to make it happen.
As an RSPB employee, you will be helping to save nature every time you come to work. There’s never been a more important time to protect our wildlife and wild places, so we want to make sure you feel rewarded for everything you help us to achieve.
The RSPB is a charity for the conservation of birds and nature. We bring people together who love birds and other wildlife, and who want to take action to restore the health and diversity of the natural world. We carry out conservation on a large scale, protect and restore habitats, and save species from extinction. We’re living in a nature and climate emergency, and we won’t stop whilst the threats persist. We believe our work makes a real difference to the world we live in. It takes a great team to save nature and we need a wide range of skills to make it happen. As an RSPB employee, you will be helping to save nature every time you come to work. There’s never been a more important time to protect our wildlife and wild places, so we want to make sure you feel rewarded for everything you help us to achieve.
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