A category where training for Forestry Commission volunteers can be found.

A volunteer carrying trees and a hot water flask for teaThis online module is part of your induction to the Shadow Ranger programme.  To navigate your way through the module please select and scroll through the lessons to find out more about Forestry England and volunteering with us.  


The course should take around an hour to work through but you can stop, if you need to, and rejoin the course where you left off later.  To do this scroll back up to the top of the page and click on "Exit Course" in the right hand corner.  Close the course page and logout.  When you login again select and enter the Volunteer Induction module and you should start where you left.

There are two quizzes which require a mimimum 60% correct answers to complete the course, however, you can take these quizzes as many times as you need to. 


Waving volunteersThis an introduction to Forestry England as a part of your volunteer induction.   

It covers:

What Forestry England do and who we are

The role of volunteers

What you should expect from your local induction, your work area and who to go to for help

Our values, commitments and behaviors

How we manage your data

Staying safe

There will be two short tests to take during the course which you can take as many times as you like in order to achieve the pass mark.