City and Guilds of London Institute · RQF Level 3
City & Guilds Level 3 Diploma in Work-based Trees and Timber (QCF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits37
- Guided learning120 hours
- Units in this qualification60
Awarded by City and Guilds of London Institute · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units City and Guilds of London Institute registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Advance machine settings for a harvester processorReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Use advanced machine settings on a harvester processor
- Promote health and safety
- Understand how to use advanced machine settings on a harvester processor
- Understand relevant health and safety legislation
Advance machine settings for a forwarderReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Use advance machine settings on a forwarder
- Promote health and safety and environmental good practice
- Understand advanced machine settings on a forwarder
- Understand relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Assess wood yield for coppicingReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Assess wood yields
- Understand how to assess wood yields
Attach and detach timber on skidderReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Attach and detach timber on skidder
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Attach and detach timber on skidder
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Carry out arboricultural operations withiin proximity to underground utilitiesReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Work in close proximity to underground utilities
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Select, use and maintain relevant equipment
- Work in close proximity to underground utilities
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
Carry out pruning operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand operator safety during tree pruning work.
- Carry out tree crown thinning.
- Carry out tree crown reduction.
- Understand tree pruning operations.
Carry out site amelioration for tree healthReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Carry out soil amelioration
- Promote health and safety and environmental good practice
- Maintain and use equipment
- Carry out soil amelioration
- Understand relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Understand the reasons for maintaining equipment
Carry out site surveys and communicate findingsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Carry out site surveys
- Communicate findings
- Promote health and safety and environmental good practice
- Understand how to carry out site surveys
- Understand how to communicate survey findings
- Understand relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Climb trees and perform aerial rescueReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Climb a tree
- Conduct aerial rescue.
- Identify tree species
Co-ordinate and oversee habitat management workReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Co-ordinate and oversee habitat management work
- Promote health and safety and environmental good practice
- Understand how to co-ordinate and oversee habitat management work
- Understand relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Communicate with, and care for, the public and othersReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Communicate with the public and others
- Work with, and care for, the public and others
- Understand legislation and organisational policies and procedures
- Understand how to communicate with the public and others
- Understand how to work with, and care for, the public and others
Construct a green wood product to client specificationReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Construct a greenwood product to specification
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Know a range of green wood products
- Know the relevance of product liability
Consult and work with the local communityReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Consult and work with the local community
- Understand how to consult and work with the local community
Deliver and evaluate interpretive entertainment and educational activitiesReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Deliver interpretive and educational activities
- Evaluate the activities
- Understand how to deliver interpretive entertainment and educational activities
- Understand how to evaluate the activities
Develop a woodland management planReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Develop a woodland management plan
- Understand how to develop a management plan
- Understand how to develop an woodland management plan
Extract wood products using a horseReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Extract wood products using a horse
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Select, use and maintain relevant equipment
- Extract wood products using a horse
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
Extract wood products using a pair of horsesReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Extract wood products using a pair of horse
- Promote safe working and minimise environmental damage
- Select, use and maintain relevant equipment
- Understand how to use a pair of horses to extract wood products
- Understand relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
Extract wood products using small motorised equipmentReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare and extract wood products
- Unload wood products
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Prepare and extract wood products
- Unload wood products
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Fell utility polesReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare wooden utility poles for felling.
- Fell wooden utility poles.
Identify and control the presence of woodland pestsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Undertake pest control
- Know the different methods of pest control
- Understand how to monitor pest control
- Understand the relevance of legal and ethical pest control
Identify the need for, and plan, habitat management workReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Identify habitat management work
- Plan for habitat management work
- Understand how to identify the need for habitat management work
- Understand the need to plan habitat management work
Lay a hedgeReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Plan to lay a hedge
- Lay a hedge
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Lay a hedge
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Maintain child welfare and safety during environmental activities and outingsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare and maintain a safe environment for children and young people during activities and outings
- Understand how to prepare and maintain a safe environment for children and young people during activities and outings
Manage Coppice RotationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Plan the coppice rotation
- Manage coppice rotations
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Select, use and maintain relevant equipment
- Understand how to manage coppice rotations
Measure and assess felled timber volume and qualityReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Measure and record volume and make quality assessment of felled timber
- Promote health and safety and environmental good practice
- Maintain and use relevant equipment
- Measure, record and forecast volume of timber
- Understand relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of habitat management workReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of habitat management work
- Understand how to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of habitat management work
Operate a grapple loaderReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Operate a grapple loader
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Operate a grapple loader
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Operate machine in extreme conditionsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Operate machine in extreme conditions
- Promote health and safety and environmental good practice
- Understand how to operate machine in extreme conditions
- Understand relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Plan and Install structural supports for treesReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Install structural support
- Promote health and safety and environmental good practice
- Understand how to how to plan and install structural supports for trees
- Understand relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Plan and carry out plant protection by chemical meansReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Carry out plant protection by chemical means
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Select, use and maintain relevant equipment
- Understand how to carry out plant protection by chemical means
- Understand relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Understand the reasons for maintaining equipment
Plan and manage the control of pests, diseases and disordersReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Plan the control of pests, diseases and disorders
- Monitor the control of pests, diseases and disorders
- Manage the control of pests, diseases and disorders
- Keep appropriate records
- Promote health and safety and environmental good practice
- Maintain and use relevant equipment
- Understand how to plan for the control of pests, diseases and disorders
- Understand how to monitor the control of pests, diseases and disorders
- Understand the records required for managing the control of pests, diseases and disorders
- Understand the control of pes
Plan to carry out arboricultural operations in proximity to overhead utilitiesReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Survey, plan and work in proximity to overhead utilities
- Promote health and safety and environmental good practice
- Maintain and use relevant equipment
- Understand how to survey and plan work in proximity to overhead utilities
- Understand relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Plan, deliver and evaluate environmental projectsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Plan environmental projects
- Deliver environmental projects
- Evaluate environmental projects
- Understand how to plan environmental projects
- Understand how to deliver environmental projects
- Understand how to evaluate environmental projects
Prepare and Operate machinery to Fell TreesReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Select and prepare machinery
- Drive and manoeuvre machinery
- Fell trees
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Prepare, drive and manoeuvre machinery
- Fell trees
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Prepare and Operate machinery to Process treesReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Select and prepare machinery
- Drive and manoeuvre machinery
- Process felled trees
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Prepare machinery
- Process trees
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Prepare and operate a cable crane to extract wood productsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Select and prepare and operate cable crane
- Promote health and safety and environmental good practice
- Understand how to prepare cable crane
- Understand how to operate a cable crane
- Understand relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Prepare for and carry out emergency arboricultural operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare for emergency arboricultural operations
- Undertake emergency arboricultural operations
- Promote health and safety and environmental good practice
- Understand how to prepare emergency plans and agree actions
- Understand relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Prepare interpretive entertainment and educational activitiesReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare interpretive, entertainment and educational activities
- Promote health and safety and environmental good practice
- Understand how to prepare interpretive entertainment and educational activities
- Understand relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Prepare, Drive and Manoeuvre forwarderReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Be ale to select and prepare forwarder
- Drive and manoeuvre forwarder
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Prepare, drive and manoeuvre forwarder
- Drive and manoeuvre forwarder
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Prepare, drive and manoeuvre a skidderReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare to operate a skidder
- Drive and manoeuvre a skidder
- Promote health and safety and environmental good practice
- Understand how to prepare, operate, drive and manoeuvre a skidder
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Prepare, produce and evaluate interpretive mediaReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare briefs for producing interpretive media
- Monitor the production of interpretative media
- Evaluate the effectiveness of interpretative media
- Understand how to prepare briefs for producing interpretative
- Understand how to produce and monitor interpretive media
- Understand how to evaluate the effectiveness of interpretive media
Principles of forest and moorland fire managementReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare a forest and moorland fire management plan
- Understand the principles of forest and moorland fire management planning
- Understand relevant health and safety legislation
Process timber using large loader-fed machineryReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Process timber using large loader-fed machinery
- Promote health and safety and environmental good practice
- Understand how to monitor machine in operating conditions
- Understand relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Produce management plans for environmental sitesReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Assess site resources
- Produce site management plans
- Understand how to assess site resources
- Understand the factors which influence the production of plans
- Understand how to present the site management plans
- Understand the relevant legislation and policies
Promote, monitor and maintain health, safety and security of the workplaceReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to monitor and maintain the health, safety and security of the work area
- Understand how to promote good standards of health and safety
- Understand how to deal with health emergency situations
- Understand the records required and their importance
- Monitor and maintain the health, safety and security of the work area
- Promote good standards of health and safety
- Respond to health emergencies within the work area
Protect the environment through legal enforcementReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Identify and confirm the need for enforcement
- Provide evidence of non-compliance
- Initiate and monitor enforcement procedures to protect the environment
- Promote health and safety and environmental good practice
- Identify and confirm the need for enforcement
- Understand how to initiate enforcement procedures to protect the environment
- Know and understand relevant legislation, including health and safety, codes of practice and environmental good practice
Re-pollard trees at a maximum height of five metresReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Climb a tree
- Conduct and aerail rescue.
- Use a chainsaw from a rope and harness.
Research and plan environmental interpretationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Research information for interpretations
- Plan information for interpretation
- Understand how to research information for interpretations
- Understand how to plan for interpretations
Safe use of a chainsaw from mobile elevated work platformsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand operator safety during cahinsaw work from a mobil elevated work platform (MEWP).
- Carry out pre-work operational checks and set up.
- Operate a chainsaw from the platform to remove tree limb and stem sections.
Select, mark and assess volume of standing treesReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Select and mark trees
- Promote health and safety and environmental good practice
- Understand how to select, mark and assess volume of standing trees
- Understand relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Sever individually uprooted treesReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand operator safety whilst working on uprooted trees with a chainsaw.
- Sever individual uprooted trees using a chainsaw.
- Restrain root plates on individually uprooted trees using a suitable winch.
Sever multiple windblown treesReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand operator safety during chainsaw work with multiple windblown trees
- Sever multiple windblown trees.
Stalk and cull deerReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Stalk deer
- Understand how to stalk deer
- Promote health and safety and environmental good practice
- Maintain accurate records
- Understand how to humanely cull deer.
- Understand relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Maintain accurate records
Survey and Inspect TreesReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Survey and inspect trees
- Promote health and safety and environmental good practice
- Understand how to plot trees
- Understand how to survey trees
Transplant large root-balled plantsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare and transport large root-balled plants.
- Understand the principles of transporting large root-balled plants.
- Establish large root-balled plants in new sites.
- Understand the principles underpinning the establishment of large root-balled plants
- Maintain and use relevant equipment
- Understand the reasons for maintaining equipment
- Promote health and safety and environmental good practice
- Understand relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Undertake sectional felling techniquesReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Undertake sectional felling techniques.
Use a chainsaw from a rope and harnessReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Use a chainsaw from a rope and harness.
Use of mechanically powered winches in timber workReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare for winch operation
- Lay out cable and choker timber to cable
- Operate winch to pull in timber
- Promote health and safety and environmental good practice
- Understand how to prepare for winch operation
- Understand how to lay out cable and choker timber to cable
- Understand how to operate winch to pull in timber
- Understand relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Work with and consult the local communityReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Work with and consult the local community
- Understand the importance of working with and consulting the local community
Writing a Business PlanReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Write a business plan
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
Most courses were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.
There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.
And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.
Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 3 credits are regulated. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you’ve earned and what’s next.
Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
Who’d teach you this
The Evidence Evaluator
Assessor
Helps you show what you can actually do, gathering the evidence that proves it as you learn.
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Where these credits take you
A qualification is never a dead end here. See the jobs its credits open, the national occupational standards its units map to, and the future skills they quietly build.
- Ameliorate soil for tree health Legacy
- Attach and detach timber onto a skidder Legacy
- Carry out aerial tree pruning
- Carry out emergency treework operations Legacy
- Carry out site surveys and communicate your findings
- Carry out tree and vegetation management in proximity to underground utilities Legacy
- Carry out vegetation management in proximity to above ground utilities
- Choker timber for extraction Legacy
Where this can lead
Environmental Health Officer
Your journey here isn't just a job; it's a career with real impact and clear pathways for growth. We're looking for people who want to stick around, learn, and genuinely make a difference to our environmental performance. If that sounds like you, let's have a chat.
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Skills it covers
What the job actually needs. These are the standards the units are built against, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
How you’ll actually learn this
One-to-one, on your own real work
A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for City & Guilds Level 3 Diploma in Work-based Trees and Timber (QCF)
60 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by City and Guilds of London Institute.
- Advance machine settings for a harvester processor
- Advance machine settings for a forwarder
- Assess wood yield for coppicing
- Attach and detach timber on skidder
- Carry out arboricultural operations withiin proximity to underground utilities
- Carry out pruning operations
and 54 more in the full unit list below.
One to one, not one to many
No two people run this the same way
A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.
- Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
- What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
- The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
- How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
- Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.
See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.
Why it sticks
Most courses stop at remembering
There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.
- 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you
The value
Why the companion is worth £70 a month
You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.
That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.
Earned on your own work, taught to the top.
Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.
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