Stewart Ward, Grounds and Sport Turf Manager, Hartpury College, is highly qualified, highly committed and highly motivated to deliver the best possible facilities for the students.


Here he talks about his career to date and the plans he has for improving all aspects of the grounds


“It was difficult to get others to understand that, being new and with the bad weather coming in, we needed the new pitches to only be in play when conditions were favourable - it was a frustrating two months to be


a sports turf manager!” Stewart Ward, Grounds and Sport Turf Manager, Hartpury College


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artpury College is located on a beautiful 200 hectare campus just five miles


outside the city of Gloucester. It is home to a vibrant and international community of 3,200 full-time students of all ages, studying further and higher education courses, who all share a keen interest in the animal, equine, land or sports sciences.


Hartpury’s continual campus development programme ensures that students have access to excellent teaching and recreational facilities. The college offers both further and higher education courses, and has links to the University of the West of


England (UWE) - it was awarded associate faculty status in 1997. This means graduating students leave Hartpury having obtained a UWE degree qualification. Stewart Ward is the


Grounds and Sport Turf Manager who oversees “a dedicated nine man team”. “I began my career as a


grounds man/gardener on an YTS scheme run by Rowntree Mackintosh plc,” says Stewart “with ‘off the job’ training at Askham Bryan College in York. I spent two years learning the ropes on sports turf maintenance, looking after two rugby and five football pitches, one hockey pitch, two cricket squares and the factory’s bowling green and, in addition, an eighty


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