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HIT Training Ltd Welcomes Government Reforms to Functional Skills and Shorter Apprenticeships

Entries open for the Craft Guild of Chefs Graduate Awards 2025

UK’s first Level 5 Hospitality Operations Manager Apprenticeship

HIT Training Ltd Earns Gold Membership in The 5% Club

2024 Multicultural Apprenticeship Awards

Brewer Apprenticeship Graduation Event

The Super Six: Untapped Brewing Competition

Young National Chef of the Year

National Chef of the Year

HIT celebrates its first year under employee ownership.

Princess Royal Training Award: Recognising Excellence

HIT supports new platform to promote pub and hospitality careers

HIT celebrates new tri-nation partnership

SEND pilot is now permanent

New Principal appointed to HIT Chef Academy

Meet our six Salon Culinaire apprentices!

HIT Training welcomes Government's Fully Funded Apprenticeship Initiative for Small Businesses

HIT Training Ltd moves to employee ownership

HIT’s exciting brewing competition is back for 2024

HIT Heroes Award Winners 2023

The Clink Charity identifies first candidates for in-prison apprenticeships in partnership with HIT Training

HIT Training Elevates Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Jill makes Public Sector Catering’s ‘Most Influential’ list

Free online assessment to help employers shape their workforce

HIT Training and The Clink Charity announce new partnership

HIT partners with Hospitality Jobs UK

HIT Training Ltd announces new Managing Director

Hospitality leaders celebrate the grand finale of HIT Training’s Fired Up and Un-Tapped apprentice competitions.

Young National Chef of the Year

National Chef of the Year

HIT’s Chef Academy celebrated ‘National Hospitality Day 2023’ in style by hosting a pop-up kitchen with a Middle Eastern street food theme.

'Super-Six' Unveiled

HIT Training - Employer Newsletter

Young National Chef of the Year final

Championing Change

HIT’s exciting new brewing competition for 2023.

Our Executive Chairman John Hyde has received special recognition at the AAC Awards.

Congratulations to our FOUR chef apprentices who scooped FOUR medals in the prestigious Salon Culinaire competition at the Hotel Restaurant and Catering Show.

The appointments feed into the company’s wider vision of pursuing business growth opportunities across its target sectors.

The judges were bowled over by the standard of this year’s entries.

To celebrate ‘National Hospitality Day’, HIT’s Chef Academy partnered with Sodexo UK & Ireland to host a pop-up kitchen that served more than 1600 free meals in just one day!

We’re proud to announce that two of our apprentices made the MasterChef professionals finals this year.

HIT Training Ltd. is proud to announce it has received a ‘Good’ rating in a report from Ofsted for the 14th consecutive year.

We’re proud to announce one third of our staff have been with HIT Training Ltd and its specialist divisions (HIT Training, C2C and EDN) for over 10 years.

The Craft Guild of Chefs has lifted the lid on the ten chefs who will be competing for the title of Young National Chef of the Year (YNCOTY).

Jill Whittaker, Managing Director of HIT Training, Connect2Care, and the Executive Development Network has been awarded an OBE in The Queen’s Birthday Honours list.

Final winners were announced in a superhero style presentation to champion the fantastic work of both apprentices and apprenticeship employers across the country.

After a thorough audit and review, we’re thrilled to announce that HIT Training Ltd has been accredited matrix Standard for information, advice and guidance services.

Omicron and COVID Plan B update.

HIT Training is gearing up to celebrate the second annual HIT Heroes Awards.

London-based workshops launched on National Hospitality Day, with a street-food themed event, with dishes being donated to locals in need.

Employers have been called on to showcase their talented workforce during Hospitality Apprenticeships Week 2021.

Our delivery model will ensure your apprentices continue to receive top quality training at a time and place that’s convenient to you both.

HIT Training and the BII are launching a free series of Ready to Reopen webinars to help UK operators prepare for the big reopening.

The Hospitality Apprenticeship Showcase (HAS) is back for its fifth year to celebrate National Apprenticeship Week.

A brand-new training division has launched to support business leaders and managers.

The best of HIT Training’s apprentices and apprenticeship employers were celebrated in a unique online celebration event.

In what has been described as the toughest National Chef of the Year event in the competition’s 48-year history, Nick Smith, head chef at Vacherin has been crowned as the winner in a tense virtual awards ceremony this afternoon.

Apprentices complete UK's first ever brewer apprenticeship

The National Apprenticeship Awards are a fantastic opportunity to showcase the apprentices, employers and champions who have gone above and beyond, in spite of the challenges faced during this pandemic.

A new Talent Hub has been launched by HIT Training with the aim of upskilling and engaging the younger generation in careers in hospitality.

Helping Britain and its most vulnerable citizens to pull through the coronavirus crisis.

HIT Training, the UK’s largest provider of training and apprenticeships in the hospitality sector, has been named in the aspirational Sunday Times ‘Top 100 Best Companies to Work For’.

Deliveroo launches new chef apprenticeship scheme

A study released during National Apprenticeship Week represents a positive change in perceptions of the hospitality industry that can be leveraged by employers to attract and retain talent.

HIT Heroes Awards

Ensuring team members have the skills required to deliver one of the nation’s favourite dishes to a high standard plays vital role in running a successful fish and chip business.

HIT Training has won the ‘Supplier Excellence’ award at the annual Foodservice Cateys 2018.

Steve Groves and William Keeble were crowned UK culinary champions respectively at the popular annual Restaurant Show at London Olympia on 1 October.

Apprentice trailblazers at Center Parcs

Drew Dawson Wins Torque D'Or 2019

De Vere Hotels and Bidfood are among the hospitality businesses signed up to transfer a proportion of their Apprenticeship Levy to fund at least one apprenticeship outside of their company.

HIT Training, incorporating Connect2Care, has been accredited to the Matrix Quality Standard for information advice and guidance services.

An industry collaboration

Investing in the future careers of up to 9,000 hospitality apprentices.

There is finally an apprenticeship for every type of chef, from fine dining through to contract catering and casual dining.

HIT Training has launched a wide range of closed short courses, workshops and bespoke training programmes for hospitality businesses.

HIT Training is offering the BA (Hons) Management and Leadership Apprenticeship Degree, enabling hospitality businesses to develop their managers’ skills and expertise.

An apprentice supported by HIT Training has become the first in the country to complete the new Hospitality Supervisor Apprenticeship.

HIT Training has launched a Level 2 Award in Professional Cookery in Health and Social Care.

HIT Training Managing Director, Jill Whittaker, urges hospitality businesses to utilise and maximise their levy funds.

HIT Training and CPL Training have combined forces to launch a new virtual learning environment, providing on-the-go access to high-quality learning facilities for hospitality apprentices.

HIT Training has won the ‘Training Provider of the Year’ award at the annual Tes FE Awards 2018.

HIT Training has been named in the prestigious Times Top100 Best Companies to Work For.