CMA Events & Training

NATIONAL COUNCIL, TRAINING DAY and SOCIAL EVENT

Open to All CMA Members, Bring Wellingtons and appropriate clothing.
1. Meet the CMA National Council.
2. Exmoor National Park Authorities Outdoor Education 'Pinkery' Center
• how to use adventure sports to get kids interested in the countryside and ...
• a look at the pitfalls and advantages of using renewably energy (there is no mains supply)
3. Optional Social Occasion. If you would like to stay the night before or after. £13:50 per person per night. Includes breakfast. Bring money for pub meal.

Programme

Thursday 17th April 2008 (Optional) Accommodation cost £13:50 pppn
Arrive from 6pm. Pub meal & social occasion. .

Friday 18th April

0945 Arrival - Free to CMA members, ad lib tea and coffee all day National Committee meeting in centre.

1000 Introduction to the Pinkery Centre

1200 Meet with CMA National Council

1300 Lunch with CMA National Council

1400 Pond walk, walk to a remote man made pond on the high moors of Exmoor looking at moorland management and the MIRE project on the way.

1500 End - Option for over night stay at Pinkery leaving Saturday Morning

The day will be fairly informal and time schedule subject to revisions. The National Council will be on site all day and available to answer questions over lunch.

Accommodation cost £13:50 pppn. – Evening and lunch time meals are not included in this cost.
Arrive from 4pm for just the evening meal and social occasion.

Booking preferably by email to
Patrick Watts-Mabbott Or Richard Eales

pwatts-mabbott@exmoor-nationalpark.gov.uk 07973727469 OR RTEales@exmoor-nationalpark.gov.uk 07973727473

Please state if you require accommodation and on which night.

natural areas in France, will hold a pan-European Conference "Jobs for nature"
in Lyon, France, 12-14 November 2008.
CMA have been invited to make a presentation at this Congress in a Forum workshop looking at the role of Rangers as well as their national and international networks.

The next IRF congress will take place in March 2009, details to be posted as they come to hand.

The aim of the seminar is to promote Nature Interpretation as an important part of rangers work.
There will be 2 key elements at the seminar:
Intensive training in Nature Interpretation methods
The founding of an “IRF-Nordic-Baltic Forum for Nature Interpretation”.
It is the aim of International Ranger Federation to organize a Nordic-Baltic seminar every year in a different country to promote the exchange of experiences and “best practice” within the field of interpretation. Denmark, having a long tradition with Nature Interpretation, has offered to host the first seminar at Sealand in October this year. The fee for the seminar will be around 265 Euro. The program for the seminar will be finalised in April 2008. If you are interested in attending, please send an e-mail to Arne Bondo-Andersen E mail arne1864@lic-mail.dk - who will keep you informed of details of the Seminar as they come to hand.