About Us
Established in 1990, Verner Wheelock Associates (VWA) is a leading provider of high quality, food industry training. Whether you need training for yourself or your staff we can offer a range of courses, from basic level to advanced, to meet your requirements.
Background
- Based in Skipton since 1997, we have offices and a training room at the prestigious Broughton Hall Business Park in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales.
- We are specialists in providing training to the food industry throughout the UK.
- All our trainers have had extensive experience in the food industry before embarking on careers in training, and are experts in their own fields.
- Our candidates achieve excellent pass rates in examinations.
- We pride ourselves on providing good quality training and a high level of service to our customers.
- We are a registered training centre for the CIEH, RSPH (formerly RIPH) and HABC.
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Courses
Our range of courses include:
- HACCP
- Food Safety
- Auditing
- Nutrition & Health
- Specialist food industry courses
We can provide all levels of the above courses at our training facility in Skipton or at your own premises. Standard courses towards recognised RSPH (RIPH) and CIEH qualifications are always available in Skipton.
Alternatively, we can provide tailored in-house solutions to meet your requirements – whether that means tweaking an existing course to ensure the content is specific to your company or sector – or writing a bespoke course completely from scratch.
Ethical Trading Audits
VWA also carries out Ethical Trading Audits which help the major food retailers and their suppliers to address growing public concern over supply chain labour issues.
Clients
We provide training to all types of businesses, from the local sandwich shop to large blue-chip food manufacturers and local authorities. Our clients include:
Private Sector
- Bettys & Taylors
- Branston Ltd
- Cott Beverages
- Cranswick Country Foods
- Dairycrest
- Farmhouse Fare
- Farne Salmon & Trout Ltd
- Firmenich
- Gibson’s Foods
- Ginsters Ltd
- Greencore
- Greenvale AP
- HJ Heinz
- Holmesterne Farm Co Ltd
- McCain Foods (GB) Ltd
- PDM Group
- Pinneys of Scotland
- Princes Soft Drinks
- Robert Wiseman Dairies
- Sainsbury’s
- United Biscuits
- Warburtons
- Wensleydale Dairy Products
Public Sector
- Barnsley PCT
- Bradford District Care Trust
- Bradford Education Contract Services
- Blackburn with Darwen MBC
- Bridgend County BC
- Bury MBC
- CBS Catering - Cheshire
- Doncaster MBC
- Flintshire County Council
- MOD Catering Services
- NE Lincolnshire CC
- North Yorkshire CC
- Nottingham CC
- Pendle Environmental Health
- RAF Cosford
- Salford Citywide Services
- SNUPI
- Solihull Catering Services
- St Helens College
- Tameside MBC
- Torfaen BC
- Warwickshire County Caterers
- Wrexham Borough Council
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