RHS to invest in gardening talent

• Survey in 2013 found more than 70% of horticultural businesses cannot fill skilled vacancies, nearly 20% are forced to recruit overseas and almost 70% say career entrants are inadequately prepared for work.*
• As part of the on-going industry-wide campaign, Horticulture Matters, to close the green skills gap, the RHS will invest £3.2 million to increase its horticultural apprentice and training positions from 46 to 76 by 2025.
• The RHS also commits to invest a further £4.1 million in horticultural salaries by 2025. The pay increases will be permanent, continuing beyond 2025, to better reflect the skills and knowledge of horticulturally trained employees.

The dwindling number of people in the UK with horticultural skills represents a major challenge to the horticultural industry in trying to meet the growing demands placed on it. As part of the industry-wide ‘Horticulture Matters’ campaign to raise the profile of careers in horticulture, the RHS has committed to invest £7.3 million by 2025 into horticultural talent to help support the future of British Horticulture.

Read LJN's piece here: http://landscapejuicenetwork.com/profiles/blogs/rhs-to-invest-in-home-grown-horticultural-talent

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Phil Voice April 9, 2015 at 9:23am

I wonder if the RHS considers its members to be in the same industry as SMEs?
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Phil Voice April 9, 2015 at 10:23am
Gavin Gray April 11, 2015 at 6:35pm

This course was put to us at my work and I immediatly stuck my name down

The chance was too good to give up so here's hoping I pass the interview to get in!
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Phil Voice April 16, 2015 at 10:44am

Should the landscape industry introduce its own voluntary £10.00 per hour minimum wage?

http://www.landscapejuice.com/2015/04/should-the-landscape-industry...
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Phil Voice April 16, 2015 at 10:51am

@LandscapeJuice: No doubt SMEs are not immune from skills shortages
— The RHS (@The_RHS) April 16, 2015