Coleg Ceredigion Catering Student Wins Prestigious Travel Scholarship to Enhance Culinary Skills
A second-year Coleg Ceredigion catering student in Cardigan has won a Travel Scholarship from The Worshipful Livery Company of Wales. The award will enable him to attend two specialist food preparation courses to help further his studies and career in food service and catering.
Charles Watson will use his Award to fund two short specialist courses. The first will be a meat preparation course at the Butchery Academy at the Castell Howell Company in Cross Hands, a major supplier of fresh meats and poultry to businesses throughout South Wales, and for the second, he will attend a course at the Swansea Fish Company to develop his skills in fish preparation.
Both courses will further his knowledge and skills in specialist food preparation. He said: “Thanks to this award from the Welsh Livery Company, I now have the opportunity to travel to both these places for this specialist catering training. I am sure that attending both courses will help me enormously in developing my career.”
The Worshipful Livery Company of Wales was founded in 1993 and one of its aims is to “promote education, science, technology and the arts in Wales”. This it achieves by helping young people throughout Wales to develop their talents and skills by means of an annual awards programme of scholarships and bursaries to students in schools, universities and technical colleges, as well as to apprentices and young people in the armed forces.
A spokesperson for The Company said: “One of The Company aims is to encourage and support students to progress with a specific project. We raise funds through various charitable events and also by reaching out, not only to our Liverymen for financial support, but also to the wider community in Wales. We are delighted to be able to support Charles in taking forward his studies in this way.”
Charles’s career ambition is to own his own restaurant called ‘7 Nations’, which would exemplify tasting menus from diverse cultures from across the world. Initially he hopes to own a food truck then expand to a restaurant, ideally in a major centre in Wales.