Woodworker wins Lantra women's award

Tracey Guiller, a woodworker who undertook a chainsaw course, has won the first Outstanding Women and Work Learner of the Year Award.

Organised by Lantra Sector Skills Council for the environmental and land-based industries, the Women and Work Awards 2010 celebrated some of the sectors’ most inspirational and driven women who have accessed funding.

Since 2007 the Women and Work programme has helped 2,423 women working in male-dominated industries. Phase four will run from April to March 2011, helping another 670 women to develop their skills, careers and businesses.

Women and Work programme manager Lyndsay Bird said: “The achievement of the programme over the first three years has been outstanding. Our skills coaches have worked with over 850 companies helping over 2,400 women to benefit from the programme.”