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Greene King Catering and Hospitality Employer Skills Academy
The Greene King Catering and Hospitality Employer Skills Academy was launched in 2019. This academy is based at our City Campus and supports our Level 2 Culinary Skills students. The academy provides the college's catering and hospitality students with hands-on opportunities to develop specialist knowledge and skills within the catering and hospitality industry.
The Greene King Catering and Hospitality academy provides the opportunity for its academy students to take part in Greene King led masterclasses, workshops, site visits and placement opportunities to enhance their College studies. By providing these opportunities it allows all of the Greene King academy students to gain hands-on experience and learn from industry experts.
Taking place in the college kitchens, students will be exposed to all areas of the Greene King business with activities including:
As part of the programme, there is an opportunity for academy students to take part in an industry placement. This provides students with 315 hours of industry experience, in various aspects of the business, that they can then use for future applications. The students are selected on merit and will undergo further interviews in order to take part in this opportunity, potentially growing to paid work.
Amy Adams, Greene King Regional Manager
Greene King are a nationwide company and they have over 2,900 pubs, restaurants and hotels across the UK. Their HQ is in Bury St Edmunds and the history within this organisation dates back to 1799. The organisation has many brands including Hungry Horse, Chef & Brewer, Farmhouse Inns and Flaming Grill, as well as their Greene King Local pubs.
Greene King have been the leading cask ale brewery in the UK for years and pride themselves on community work and charity events. They have 4 main areas of focus which are; their communities, their people, their environment and their customers. From May 2012 they developed a partnership with MacMillan Cancer Support and so far, they have raised over £5 million for this charity, they are supporters of Focus 12 which provides treatment for those with drug and alcohol dependencies and offers guidance and counselling for family members, and during the Rugby World Cup in 2015 their pubs raised over £70,000 for Prostate Cancer UK.
They have an extensive training and development programme which runs internally to help their tenants become team leaders and managers. Throughout the group they have supported thousands of apprentices since 2011. This year also launched ‘The Stepping Up Report’, challenging the barriers of social mobility and providing a commitment to create the best opportunities for individuals from all backgrounds in the hospitality sector.
Greene King have helped us with a CV workshop, tailored towards our industry, and we will also be taking part in mock interviews with them. Greene King are well-established and are a good group of people to learn from, which will help to develop my career.
Dylan Orridge
Greene King Hospitality Academy student
