Catering

Minstead Training Project offers a wide variety of experiences in catering. Students prepare food and drink for visitors to the Project’s conference facilities and for fellow students and staff. A separate brochure is available giving full details of the conference facilities.

Work in the section is geared towards giving students a realistic experience of working in a busy professional catering team. If a student wishes to take this further he/she can access appropriate training courses in catering and hospitality at a local sector college.

As well as catering skills students learn how to work in a team, to deal with time constraints and about the pressures of catering for groups of people in a small, friendly yet professional environment. Once again elements of  the ICAN awards scheme are used to assess levels of achievement and progress.

Students who work in the Catering Section often have a great sense of achievement in seeing visitors, other students and staff enjoying the food that they have prepared.