Sheffield is The Outdoor City, one of Europe’s greenest cities and the gateway to the Peak District. It’s stunning, inspiring, and makes for unrivalled and unique work environments. Studying one of our land-based study programmes in our automated glasshouses and workshops creates opportunities to maintain and design country gardens, landscape gardens or work as a grounds person.
Alternatively, our florists learn how to condition, design, package and sell flowers and foliage for retail in our industry-standard workshop. Keeping our countryside, green spaces, homes and events looking beautiful is a rewarding and creative job!
Alfie Hulbert, former Apprentice and Owner of Valley Landscapes
Picking the right course is the first step in your land-based career! Whether you choose a full-time study programme and pick your own specialism, or head straight into an Apprenticeship, we're sure to have something that suits you and your learning style.
We’ll have you landscaping, growing, trading and arranging flowers in no time at all.
The opportunities to preserve, maintain and create Sheffield’s green spaces have never been better than here at The Sheffield College. We will train you to preserve our wonderful environment.
A key part of your learning experience will be getting out of the classroom so that you can see how things operate in the real world and not just in your textbook!
Some trips will be local, drawing on our brilliant connections and partnerships with nearby businesses and taking advantage of Sheffield's hugely diverse range of talent.
Our students have had some incredible opportunities over the last few years, from rennovating Sheffield United's training facilitiy to helping with floral installations at RHS Chatsworth.
We know that one of the best things we can do for our students is to give them practical experience of the sector they plan to work in so that they feel confident and prepared when it comes to entering the workplace.
If you choose to study on one of our land-based study programmes, you'll be based at our Hillsborough Campus. Our facilities here include an industry-standard floristry studio and fully automated glasshouses, adding to our industry standard workshops, and latest equipment and machinery, we’ll have you landscaping, growing, trading and arranging flowers in no time at all.
All of our facilities aim to replicate the standard of equipment you would be expected to use in the workplace, so that you're acquiring the skills you'll need for employment.
Upon completion of one of our land-based study programmes, you could be maintaining and designing country gardens at grand halls like Chatsworth. You could be working as a grounds person, landscape gardener, garden centre operative or even at a historic garden in one of Sheffield’s many green spaces like the Botanical Gardens. Alternatively you could pursue a career as a pitch manager, creating carpet-like pitches at Bramall Lane, Hillsborough or maybe even Wembley.
How about working in the floristry industry creating floral designs for birthdays, anniversaries and prestigious events? Or what about creating beautiful bouquets or centre pieces for weddings or other lavish occasions?
We offer Floristry Apprenticeships in Levels 2 and 3, whilst on this type of study programme you can expect to:
Choosing a career path when you've only just left school can seem like a daunting prospect, but our Careers Advice Team are on hand to offer you the best impartial careers guidance going.
They can help you to figure out the kind of jobs that you might enjoy based on your interests, skills and hobbies; or if you already have a pretty good idea of what you'd like to do in the future they can give you some pointers on how to go further and land your dream job. You can talk to them whether you're still deciding on a course or even if you're about to make the jump from education into full-time work.
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