A LEADING Welsh work-based learning company has declared its involvement in the weekend’s Royal Welsh Spring Festival at Llanelwedd a great success.
Welshpool-based Cambrian Training Company, which has offices across Wales, welcomed more than 250 visitors on both days of the event to its pavilion on the Royal Welsh Showground.
The company attended the event to inform visitors about career opportunities in Wales via apprenticeships and to promote the Welsh hospitality and food and drink industries.
Cambrian Training Company is the leading provider of Hospitality and Food & Drink Manufacturing Apprenticeships in Wales. The company also delivers apprenticeships in Business & Administration, Leadership & Management and Sustainable Resource Management.
On Saturday, the company’s professional cookery training officer, Andrew Addis-Fuller gave three full-house cookery demonstrations using salt beef. This new product has been launched by Cambrian Training Company’s sister business, Trailhead Fine Foods, who exhibited in the festival’s Food Hall.
On Sunday, it was hospitality training officer, Scott Morgan’s turn in the spotlight, giving masterclasses in mocktail making. In addition to hundreds of mocktails, visitors consumed around 500 Welsh cakes made to Andrew’s secret recipe.
Among the visitors who complimented Cambrian Training Company and Trailhead Fine Foods on the salt beef dishes, Welsh cakes and mocktails was Marian Owen, wife of this year’s Royal Welsh Agricultural Society’s 2025 president, John R. Owen.
The company will again be gifting its Cambrian Training Company Pavilion to the host county, which is Caernarfon this year, at the Royal Welsh from July 21-24.
Faith O’Brien, Cambrian Training Company’s managing director, said the festival was “very successful and really positive” for the company.
She said: “Our mission was to support the festival, promote the hospitality and food and drink sectors across Wales – and all the different roles within them – and to raise the profile of apprenticeships as successful career pathways.
“We welcomed around 250 people to our pavilion on each of the days and they were looking to understand what apprenticeships have to offer.
“We met quite a few parents who were disappointed that their children had chosen either further or higher education courses instead of an apprenticeship and were unable to find employment.
“We also met a school head of year who identified the need for apprenticeships to be better promoted in schools as an option for students, which is something we have been saying for years.
“Quite a few young people came in wanting to know how they could enrol on an apprenticeship. Hopefully, they went away armed with the information they need to find an employer who supports apprenticeships.”
