(£1,000) for the best college student that was awarded to Andrew Sargeant from University College Birmingham. Laura will visit Prosecco, Italy in 2010 and Andrew will undertake a work placement in London.


£6,800 for the UK Restaurant Manager of the Year. This is the second year that this competition has run and the first year the Trust has been involved. The grant from the Trust will enable AFW to award a prize to the competition runner up. This will take the form of a one week course at L’Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne including help with travel and accommodation costs. The winner and runner up were announced at a Gala Dinner held on the 17th May 2010 at The Roof Gardens.


The winner was David Hennigan, General Manager, The Crown at Whitebrook,


Monmouth and the runner up, who received the prize from the Trust was Michele Caggianese, Restaurant Manager at Galvin at Windows, Hilton on Park Lane.


Amicale In ternatio e des Sous nal Ht l AC ) ôes ( I R -Directe


urs et Chefs de Réception des Grands £ , 020 0


The Trust supported the British Receptionist of the Year Competition. In the year under review this was held at The Royal Garden Hotel


in London on the 30th November 2009. The winner


was Magdalena Zuchowicz (pictured far right) from the Sheraton Belgravia who then went on to become the 2nd Runner up at the International Receptionist of the Year competition held in Madrid from the 13th-17th January 2010.


The grant from the Trust is used towards the costs of an Executive Summer Management course at the Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne for the winner of the British Competition.


City & Guids ‘ edal f r Excellence’ l M o £500


Every year approximately 100 people are chosen from over three quarters of a million eligible candidates to receive a prestigious City & Guilds ‘Medal for Excellence’. They are each recognised for having displayed exceptional standards and achievements as a learner, lecturer or trainer.


City


& Guilds annually recommend to the Trust the top scoring candidates in the hospitality field to whom they have awarded a ‘Medal of Excellence’. Those individuals receive a prize from the Trust at an awards ceremony held to celebrate the achievement and success of medalist winners from all areas of vocational education. For the year under review 2 prizes were awarded at a ceremony which took place in London on the 6th April 2009. They were both for Level 3 NVQ in Professional Cookery and were awarded to David Jones and Oscar Holgado.


Nestle Toque D’Or £1 2,000


The Toque D’Or competition founded in 1988 is a national competition. The format has changed over the years but the aims of Toque D’Or remain the same: to encourage young chefs and waiters to recognise their potential talent and encourage their personal pursuit of excellence.


The


competition seeks to (1) provide real life experience outside of the college environment for students and have this externally measured; (2) forge close practical working relationships between industry and education; and (3) extend the formal learning gained at college and demonstrate this at a high level.


By competing, colleges can raise their profile by showcasing the qualities and capabilities of the students, as well as their teaching excellence. Each college team consists of 4 chefs and 2 front of house students who compete as a team and are given free rein to express their imagination and creativity by devising a restaurant theme. The 5 teams chosen for the final have the opportunity to implement their ‘place to eat’ at the BBC Summer Good Food Show in June.


All colleges who make the grand final receive a college prize of catering equipment purchased from Russums. The Trust’s grant will support this element of the competition. Equipment to the value of £4,000 will be awarded to the winning team and £2,000 to the remaining four teams.


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