Minster celebrates training success

THE minister for culture, media and sport, Andy Burnham, is today visiting a Manchester restaurant to help celebrate the success of its management training programme.

Living Ventures, owner of The Grill on the Alley, teamed up with the National Skills Academy for Hospitality to launch the first programme of its kind to meet the management and leadership needs of the sector.

David McHattie, the Academy’s chief executive, said: “Living Ventures’ takes the apprentices through a journey of learning which encompasses on the job development and experience both front of house and in the kitchen to equip them to be successful in pub, bar and restaurant management.

Sophie Chinnery, a graduate who has been through the programme at Living Ventures, said: “I started the Living Ventures training programme without a single qualification to my name, but it has provided me with the skills, knowledge and confidence to grow and I am now a manager.”