STRATEGIC AREA
COMPETITIONS/PRIZES
The Trustees recognise the importance of rewarding those who demonstrate good practice and aspire to further their development by entering various industry competitions. They are very keen to recognise the achievement of these specific skills and expertise by providing educational scholarships for leading industry competitions and by awarding prizes. Funding in the main is targeted towards the education, training and development of the competition finalists/winners. “C alway
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In the year under review, the Trust supported 10 industry competitions and awarded 6 City & Guilds examination winners’ prizes with grants totaling £102,746, including an accrual of £2,000 for the Philip Thornton Award. This represents an increase of 2.08% from the previous year where grants totaling £100,652 were awarded to 11 industry competitions and for 2 City & Guilds examination winners’ prizes. Detailed below and overleaf are those competitions/prizes that received funding from the Trust.
Academy of Culinary Arts £ 6,000
The Academy of Culinary Arts were awarded funds for their Annual Awards of Excellence to enable them to provide a travel scholarship of £2,000 to each of the three individuals who attained the highest marks in the Kitchen, Pastry and Service categories. The winners, announced at a Gala Dinner at The Dorchester Hotel, London on 20th July 2010 and pictured third from left to right, were: Kitchen - Mark Stinchcombe from Lucknam Park; Service - Katie Watson from Gleneagles; and Pastry – Richard Phillips from Le Manoir aux Quat’ Saisons.
Academy of Food and Wine £ 7,000
The grant from the Trust will enable the Academy of Food and Wine to award a prize to the runner up of the UK Restaurant Manager of the Year. This will take the form of a one week course at L’Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne including help with travel and accommodation costs. The runner up - announced at a Gala Dinner on the 16th May 2011 at The Corinthia Hotel, London - was Paul Shanahan, Assistant Food and Beverage Director at London Syon Park Waldorf Astoria.
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The Trust supported the British Receptionist of the Year Competition. In the year under review this was held at The Rennaissance London Chancery Court Hotel on 13th December 2010. The winner was Adena Wallingford from the Four Seasons in Canary Wharf who then went on to represent the UK at the International Receptionalist of the Year Competition held in New Zealand from 8th-15th January 2011.
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 & Gui
l M ds ‘ edal f r Excellence’ o £1,175
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
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