Partnerships
As part of our core offer to learners, we provide access to specialists in each of our vocational fields. Below is a little bit about each of our teaching partners:
Communigrow
Learners studying Horticulture visit Communigrow on a weekly basis. Here, skilled and experienced gardeners like Paul and Sue teach the knowledge and skills that our learners need to complete their City and Guilds accreditation and give them the foundations required for a possible future career in gardening.
Communigrow is a fabulous resource offering gardening opportunities to a wide variety of local groups. They host regular events and produce sales, details of which can be found on their website
Skills For Employment
Skills for employment employ tutors with trade and construction industry experience to teach their skills to learners across a range of school and college settings, including Grow 19. Skills for Employment work with the Construction and Horticulture team on-site and in the community to complete projects, teach them new skills, help prepare them for practical employment and achieve City and Guilds accreditation.
East Malling Centre Café
The volunteer run café, based on the same site as the college, offers local residents, as well as our learners, a fantastic place to meet and enjoy a healthy, reasonably priced meal or a drink. Our learners run the East Malling Cafe twice a week on Monday and Wednesday. Here learners embed the skills they have learnt in hospitality in a real working environment. The cafe also gives learners the opportunity to develop social skills and build on communication targets in a meaningful environment. Learners are all Level 2 food hygiene trained and offer a variety of food and beverage choices from our own barista machine which the learners are trained to use by industry standard trainers. Learners can order lunch, snack or drink from the cafe and provides a social environment in which to engage with peers. All the profit made from the cafe is put back into the community centre to be used by the community. For more information about the café and upcoming events there, visit their website
