Welcome to the CMS Consortium website
The CMS Consortium (CMSC) is a group of conservation organisations whose aim is to raise standards in conservation and countryside management. The key ways through which this aim is achieved are by producing planning guidelines and software tools to make the whole process as simple as possible.
The CMS Consortium is currently organising a series of regional planning seminars around the UK. These seminars involve talks on planning theory, examples of systems working within organisations and looking at software tools to aid planning. Click here for more information including dates and venues.
The current version of the CMS software is CMS7 or CMS NaturaPlan. This helps you write your management plan and uniquely integrates recording of work done with the plan. This in turn improves future planning as the past history of management is integrated with the plan but also aids reporting and corporate management of data.
You do not have to be a member of the CMSC to use CMS7 but the advantages that membership bring are the involvement in the management and direction of the system and discounts on the software. CMS7 is highly customisable allowing it to be used in different languages and there are hundreds of users across the British Isles, the rest of Europe and beyond.
