This introductory course will greatly enhance your understanding of dormouse ecology and conservation and will provide you with a useful first step towards gaining your dormouse handling licence. Once you have completed the course, your trainer will be able to sign the appropriate sections of your dormouse training log.

During the course you will cover:

• Dormouse ecology & conservation
• Legislation
• Habitat Management
• Survey techniques
• Best practice in handling dormice
• Carrying out a dormouse nest box check

Please note that the course is partly field based and you will be required to walk up to 3km and on uneven ground, so please ensure that you are capable of this before booking.

“I enjoyed it very much, Sue is a very good teacher and extremely knowledgeable.”

“Value for money, very enjoyable, went home feeling I had learned more than enough to take forward further work.”

“Fantastic opportunity to gain more theory and practical knowledge about one of the UK’s most adorable species!”

What to bring:

You will need to bring a packed lunch. Further details about appropriate equipment and clothing will be provided in a ‘what to bring’ list within your account ‘Courses’ tab after booking.

Timings:

The course will commence at 10 am and finish at around 4-4.30 pm.

Directions:

The course will be held at St Lukes Church Room, 32 School Lane, Countess Wear, Exeter, EX2 3LB. The Training Room is not far from the motorway so is easy to reach by car. There are also fairly frequent buses from the centre of Exeter, so arriving by public transport is a feasible option.

Venue directions are provided within your account ‘Courses’ tab after booking.

Booking for another person?

If you are purchasing a course/s on behalf of another person, please follow these steps to ensure they can access their course/s:

1. Create a student account using the student’s (whoever will be taking the course) details and contact information or use their existing student account.
2. Including the correct billing address and information for the payment method that was used.
3. Leave us a note in the ‘additional information’ box to let us know it was purchased with another person’s debit/credit card.
4. Make sure to pass on the Username and Password to the student so they can get started on learning. All their course materials will be available on their account.

Booking for multiple people?

If you are purchasing courses on behalf of multiple other people, follow these steps to ensure they can access their course/s:

1. Create a student account under your own details and add the correct number of courses for all the students you are purchasing for. (Example: If three people need to take Mammal ID, add it to basket three times).
2. Ask each student (person who you have purchased the course for) to create their own student account on our website with their own details.
3. Once purchased, contact us directly to let us know the Names, student account Usernames and Email Addresses for each student you have bought for.
4. We will contact each of them directly with directions on how to purchase the course free of charge once it has been paid for already.

If you have any problems with this process, please get in touch – [email protected] or 03301653024