Gardening Qualifications
Click on each course provider for more information:
Horticultural Colleges
Apprenticeship
Royal Horticultural Society
Womens Farm and Garden Association
Local Horticultural and Agricultural Colleges
Your local college may offer some horticultural courses or you may need to contact a specialist college such as those listed below.
PLEASE NOTE: Not all courses are acceptable for membership of The Gardeners Guild. Although the trainer may be able to offer Ofqual registered qualifications, that does not necessarily mean that every course they offer is Ofqual Registered.
Scotlands Rural College - SRUC
Various campus locations around Scotland
www.sruc.ac.uk
Capel Manor
London
www.capel.ac.uk
Merrist Wood College
Surrey
www.merristwood.ac.uk
Hadlow College
Kent
www.hadlow.ac.uk/
Berkshire College of Agriculture
Berkshire
https://www.bca.ac.uk/
Sparsholt College
Hampshire
www.sparsholt.ac.uk
Oaklands College
Hertfordshire
www.oaklands.ac.uk/
Shuttleworth College
Bedfordshire
www.shuttleworth.ac.uk/
Reaseheath College
Cheshire
www.reaseheath.ac.uk
Plumpton College
East Sussex
www.plumpton.ac.uk
Brinsbury Campus
West Sussex
www.chichester.ac.uk/brinsbury
Writtle College
Essex
www.writtle.ac.uk
Suffolk Rural
Suffolk
www.suffolk.ac.uk
Bicton College
South
Devon
www.bicton.ac.uk
Kingston Maurward College
Dorchester, Dorset
https://www.kmc.ac.uk/college/
Bridgwater College
Cannington, Somerset
www.bridgwater.ac.uk
Lackham College
Trowbridge/Chippenham, Wiltshire
www.wiltshire.ac.uk
Deeside College - Northop Campus
North Wales
www.deeside.ac.uk
Bridgend College
South Wales
www1.bridgend.ac.uk
East Durham College - Houghall Campus
County Durham
www.eastdurham.ac.uk
Craven College
Skipton, North Yorkshire
www.craven-college.ac.uk
Shipley College
Saltaire, West Yorkshire
www.shipley.ac.uk
Leeds City College
Leeds, West Yorkshire
www.leedscitycollege.ac.uk
Askham Bryan College
York, Yorkshire
www.askham-bryan.ac.uk
Pershore - Warwickshire College
Worcestershire
www.warwickshire.ac.uk
Have we missed one? Email us and let us know enquiries@thegardenersguild.co.uk
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