Food Centre - Day Trips

The Bakery team have arranged a residential trip to the ABST Student Conference taking place at Alton Towers from Friday 15th to Sunday 16th June.

 Places are limited and the total cost is £190. Payment will be via the online shop and needs to be paid no later than Friday 9th May 2024.

This price includes hotel accommodation for two nights; 3 meals a day and breakfast on Sunday morning. Drinks tickets for the black-tie event on Saturday. Tokens for the Water park & Mini Golf. Students will need to make their own way to and from the venue. Students are also invited to compete in the Conference Competitions and some students have already started to prepare for this. Details of the weekend will be sent once finalised but as a guide please see below Schedule

Friday 10:30 - 11:30: Students and tutors to arrive and join the networking session. T-shirts, goodie bags 11:00 - 15:00: Networking session 15:00 - 16:00: industry talk 16:00 - 17:00: AGM 17:00 - Access to hotel rooms opens 18:00 - Bar opens for pre-dinner drinks 19:00 - Stateroom opens for buffet dinner *PIRATE THEME FANCY DRESS* 20:00 - 22:00 - Raffle tickets available for purchase *PLEASE BRING CASH* 00:00 - Stateroom closes

Saturday 06:45 - Students start placing their competition items 08:30 - Judges to report to the stateroom to wait for instruction 09:00 - Judging to commence, stateroom to be restricted access 09:15 - Live competition entrants to assemble outside the stateroom, reporting to head steward 09:30 - 14:45: Students/tutors/non-judge industry delegates are free to enjoy the waterpark or crazy golf 12:30: Lob the cob competition on the stateroom patio 14:45 - 15:15: Students to receive feedback from judges 15:30 - 16:30: Special guest speaker 19:00: Pre dinner drinks to be served *BLACK TIE DRESS* 19:30: Stateroom to open for dinner 21:00: Awards ceremony to commence, including president's speech 21:45: Disco and raffle 00:00: Stateroom to close

Sunday Morning -Breakfast 9am - Students are to be collected by parents or have the option to spend the day at the theme park on the Sunday but this will not be supervised by Reaseheath staff and is NOT included in the price of the residential.