Land App Accredited Professionals
Guidance on the Land App Accredited Professional Programme
We are growing a community of trained experts in various fields; known as Land App Accredited Professionals. Professionals in the land management sector will receive bespoke training on Land App, enabling them to maximise the efficacy with which they use Land App features to provide gold-standard advice across the land sector. Land App will accredit and promote Accredited Professionals to advise organisations and landowners using Land App to evaluate land use and management, plan land use changes and access available funding opportunities from the public or private sectors.
Accredited Professionals enables expert advisors to increase the impact and efficiency of their work by optimising their use of Land App to inform assessments, planning and site-visits. The primary goal of this network is to connect advisors with land managers to support informed and impactful outcomes on the ground.
Programme Guide
Who are Land App Accredited Professionals?
The network includes a variety of organisations and individuals including advisors, conservation groups, and others who are interested in land use and management. The network facilitates collaboration, knowledge sharing, and collective action among trained and accredited Land App users.
Who can become an Accredited Professional?
A relevant qualification in delivering environment enhancements is required for participation in each of the accreditations (see the specific programmes below for more details). All advisors going through this process will need to be on a Professional Subscription – please note, for charities we can now offer a 20% Discount on Subscriptions.
The Value of Becoming an Accredited Professional
- Support a range of highly-innovative projects by providing paid advisory support to Land App’s users.
- Demonstrate a high level of Land App capability to clients.
- Register the accreditation for CPD points.
- Personalised certification and brand back to demonstrate your Accredited Professional status to your network and clients.
- Keep up-to-date with the latest developments and releases of Land App through targeted training sessions.
- Be linked to Land App’s growing user base of land managers to prepare them for funding opportunities.
- Access to additional functionality to increase your capacity to advise and collaborate with users and support users with developing, enhancing, and validating plans and accessing funding.
- Join a growing community of others to share thoughts and ideas.
How will it work?
Once you have registered your interest in accreditation, you will be provided with links to two mandatory training webinars. These will cover the Land App 101 Module (compulsory for all accreditations), and one specialist module in your field of focus.
Following the webinars, all candidates will be invited to complete evaluations for both the relevant modules. Upon successful completion of both modules, users will become Land App Accredited Professionals which will be seen as a status update in your Professional account.
Our Accreditations
The Sustainable Farm Management Accreditation
Registration: Please use the form in this link to register for the programme.
Overview: The programme has been developed to train and evaluate experts in sustainable food and farming in the use of Land App to assess and plan Sustainable Farm Management, particularly actions supported by Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) and Countryside Stewardship (CS) grant schemes.
Entrance requirements: A BASIS Qualification in delivering environment enhancements is required and will need to be confirmed before you receive Accredited Professional status. All advisors going through this process will need to be on a Professional Subscription – please note, for charities we can now offer a 20% Discount on Subscriptions. You can check and upgrade your Land App subscription here.
Accreditation Modules: All Accredited Users will have to complete 2 Compulsory Modules, then can choose from a growing series of additional modules. Annual training and evaluation will be required to maintain Accredited Professional status and to update all Accredited Professionals on key Land App and sector developments.
Module 1 – Land App 101:
- Land App ethos and ambitions
- How to use the basic functionality of the tool
- How to onboard customers to Land App
- What good data looks like / ensuring data is clean.
- Import and format data ready for upload
Module 2 – Sustainable Farm Management:
- Creating an SFI and CS template
- Mapping options to appropriate areas
- How to use the Land App validator to check the application
- How to export data from the SFI and CS plans to share and complete applications
Woodland Creation Accreditation (pilot phase)
Registration: Please email george@thelandapp.com to register for the programme.
Overview: The programme has been developed to train and evaluate experts in sustainable woodland creation in the use of Land App to assess and plan land management changes supported by grant schemes such as the English Woodland Creation Offer (EWCO).
Entrance requirements: Currently, Expert Provider certification is required to become a Woodland Creation Accredited Professional. All advisors going through this process will need to be on a Professional Subscription – please note, for charities we can now offer a 20% Discount on Subscriptions. You can check and upgrade your Land App subscription here.
Accreditation Modules: All Accredited Users will have to complete 2 Compulsory Modules, then can choose from a growing series of additional modules. Annual training and evaluation will be required to maintain Accredited Professional status and to update all Accredited Professionals on key Land App and sector developments.
Module 1 – Land App 101:
- Land App ethos and ambitions
- How to use the basic functionality of the tool
- How to onboard customers to Land App
- What good data looks like / ensuring data is clean.
- Import and format data ready for upload
Module 2 – Woodland Creation:
- Creating a Woodland Creation template and utilise Land App’s data layers and tools to inform and map Woodland Creation
- Mapping EWCO options to appropriate areas
- How to use the Land App validator to check the suitability and eligibility of land for Woodland creation through the EWCO scheme.
- How to export data from the Woodland Creation plans to share and complete applications
Have additional questions?
Email george@thelandapp.com