CMA Events & Training

Meet at Island Cottage, Common Lane; Beccles Common,
Beccles, Suffolk, NR34 9BX
This day is hosted by the Broads Authority Ranger Service and is arranged by CMA member Colin Hart.
10.00 Arrival (Tea, coffee) at Island Cottage (park in car park in Common Lane and walk to cottage).

10.30 Merging rangers - A look at the new Broads Authority combined Ranger Team, which bring together both the land and water management aspects of the role, aiming to improve efficiency and prioritisation of work in each area in response to funding cuts. A presentation by the Deputy Head of Ranger Services, Lucy Burchnall, which will include an overview of the new team roles and the challenges ahead.

11.30 Heritage interpretation – A site visit to Geldeston lock to look at the recent completed locks project. Local Ranger Colin Hart will give an outline of the grand project and its more modest outcomes.

12.30 Lunch (bring packed lunch or snacks/drinks available at Geldeston Lock Pub

13.30 Integrated Access The Canoe Project - We will take to the water by boat and discuss and look at the proposed canoe access project connecting access points along the Waveney valley. Views will be sought on ways forward, funding and design.

15.00 Final discussions and depart

CMA Members FREE Non-members Free on joining the CMA either beforehand or on the day

To book please contact CMA Administration:
Writtle College, Lordship Road, Writtle, Chelmsford, Essex, CM1 3RR Tel: 01245 424116 e-mail: cma@writtle.ac.uk

A study day devoted to visitor gifting and payback schemes
Exmoor House, Dulverton, Somerset, TA22 9HL
Pay and display car park next door to Exmoor House. Regular Bus from Minehead or Tiverton

10am – Tea and coffee
10:30 - Introduction by chair
10:40 - Presentation by Dan James of Exmoor National Park Authority
11:40 – Q and A session
12:00 – Lunch - please bring your own or excellent sandwiches are available from local farm shop
12:30 – Depart for site visit
13:00 - Site visit at Tarr Steps – popular visitor location with a range of potential discussion themes to continue the days discussion
14:30 – Return to Exmoor House
15:00 - Finish
AGM
15.30 Registration Tea, Coffee and Biscuits
16:00pm AGM

To book please contact CMA Administration:
Writtle College, Lordship Road, Writtle, Chelmsford, Essex, CM1 3RR
Tel: 01245 424116 e-mail: cma@writtle.ac.uk

The Annual General Meeting of the CMA will be held at 3pm on 6th October 2011 Exmoor House, Dulverton, Somerset.

If you wish to attend please email CMA Administration at cma@writtle.ac.uk for more details .

09:00am until 4:00pm
Bluewater Shopping Centre, Greenhithe, Kent . DA9 9ST

Delegates will be introduced to baseline surveying techniques for dormice. This one day course will include classroom based work and a field visit . Delegate numbers are restricted to five due to health and safety and dormice welfare restrictions. Delegates will need to dress for scrambling through bramble. This event will include : Legislation, mitigation and management , Ecology & Behavior ,tracks and signs and checking boxes and tubes for mice in the field .
The site does contain a viable breeding population of dormice but we cannot guarantee find mice during the site visit.
An attendance certificate will be issued to all attending delegates.

CMA Members £FREE
Non-members £35 (includes free CMA membership)

To book please contact CMA Administration:
Writtle College, Lordship Road, Writtle, Chelmsford, Essex, CM1 3RR
Tel: 01245 424116 e-mail: cma@writtle.ac.uk

Meet Exmoor National Park Rangers in Exford for a talk on Heather beetles, their life cycle and the damage they can cause.

After lunch a trip onto the moor to look at various management techniques that have been employed on the heather moor to promote healthy growth and control the beetle. These include swailing, flailing and round bailing.

Contact CMA Administration tel 01245 424116 email cma@writtle.ac.uk