Students Serve Up A Charity Winner

Release date: 18/02/2010

Dundee College students served up a winner when they dished up dinner for 32 people in a bid to boost charity funds.

A total of nine students on the brand-new hospitality skills for work programme, launched this year, organised a charity dinner in support of the Make a Wish Foundation which grants wishes to children and young people fighting life-threatening illnesses.

The SQA-credited course is aimed at schoolchildren from S3 upwards and Dundee College is working closely with Grove Academy who have four students working alongside five hospitality students who opted to join the new course.

This programme sees the Grove pupils attending Dundee College Kingsway Campus each Wednesday afternoon at present.

As part their course the students have to plan an event from the initial idea through to fruition and in this case chose to organise a charity dinner.

Among those tucking into baked salmon or beef stroganoff in KC training restaurant on the night were a table full of teachers from Grove Academy – stiff critics indeed for the hospitality students.

“These are highly motivated students who have embarked upon this project with enthusiasm”, said lecturer Susan Richardson.
 

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