With this year’s day declared the ‘biggest and best ever’, and over 3,000 visitors to the University of Northampton site, Charlotte was kept busy on the CEd stand. She demonstrated resources including the pressure experiment using marshmallows and plastic syringes, tested handwashing skills and talked about careers in chilled. Feedback from the organisers, and the schools attending, was overwhelmingly positive and summed up by organisers in four words: “Wow! What a day!” They went on to say: “We are so pleased to have been able to highlight all of your area of work, the businesses and careers available to children […]

CEd’s portfolio of career paths expanded again this summer with four colleagues sharing experiences of life in chilled food production. The stories are diverse, and the paths to where they are today always varied. But there are common factors – enthusiasm for their roles and inspirational words to encourage the next Gen(eration) Chilled! Simon Thorpe and Sam Trevey work for Red Tractor, Nicola Benniston is at Oscar Mayer Foods and Dr Rachel Hackett was formerly with 2 Sisters Food Group, Greencore and IGD and is now with CFA, as you will hear about in this newsletter. Simon (left) is Red […]