CS30 & 31 - best affordable college course

[Chilterns]

Hi,

 

I am north of Basingstoke, Hants. and want to undertake CS30 & 31 training.

 

I checked with Sparsholt and this comes to £1500.

 

Is there another more affordable alternative close to me or is the Sparsholt price about par for the course ?

 

Chilterns

[western]

Hi mate, and welcome to arb talk. firstly these courses are not cheap, but 1500 for cs30-cs31 does sound a little on the high side. You could inrole on a full time course for that sort of money! This mite sound like a daft question, but have you tried googling tree surgery/forestry training providers in you local area? Here are a couple of the best ones i know off

 

-Merrist wood college

-Kingswood training

-plumpton college

 

All the best with the course hunt you'll get ther in the end, western:thumbup:

[arbmansam]

Hello mate as it goes i dont know how close you would be to Kent but kingswood training

Centre do all your essential cs30 and 31 and the climbing courses for about 2000 the accommodate you while doing the courses look them up on the internet

[AA Teccie (Paul)]

Hi 'Chilterns',

 

As others have indicated it's not only the land based colleges that do the chainsaw etc. training and assessments, there are also many private traiing providers out there.

 

See Chainsaw Training Courses - Lantra Awards UK

 

Good luck and 'welcome to the industry'...enjoy!

 

Paul

[Gollum]

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[Jamespepperpot]

Just finished my CS30/31 and Kingswood and it was pretty good. You get a place to stay for free as well and the company I had was great. I got taught by a bloke called Jim who was brilliant fun!

I think it came to around £900 for me