Catering Foundation Course
Who can participate?
This course was developed by New Horizons Partnership as a direct response to an identified need. It targets adults with severe to moderate learning disabilities from 16 years of age and intends to provide a clearly identifiable career path in catering. The focus of this programme is to give this client group the required learning and employment support and appropriate training in their chosen career.
Where does the training take place?
Training is delivered in both a classroom
(theory) and a real work setting (practical). A specific number of classroom
hours' training takes place each week in the Strabane campus of the North
West Regional College (NWRC).
Classroom training is complemented with practical sessions run in "The Old
Schoolhouse Cafe", which is located at the gate of NWRC (on the Derry Road
in Strabane).
This facility has been designed to develop
the clients' work skills. It allows them to get practical training under the
instruction of a qualified catering staff and support workers.
This working café serves
customers from the NWRC and the local catchment areas and is one of New Horizons
Partnership's most successful social
enterprises.
The Old Schoolhouse Café is managed by Adrian Devine, who is supported in
delivering practical training by Anne Kerrigan.
Adrian Devine Anne Kerrigan
