‘Childcare Show’ to celebrate industry and meet surge in demand for workers

AN INAUGURAL childcare expo celebrating learner achievement and the “best of the industry” will be hosted by Coleg Cambria. The Childcare Show is to be held on Wednesday May 14 from 5.30pm-8.30pm in the new £14m Nant building at Yale in Wrexham, a health and wellbeing Centre featuring the popular Iâl Spa, simulated hospital wards…

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Organic farm estate forges new partnership with iconic department store

A PROMINENT organic estate will further strengthen its ties with one of the UK’s most iconic high-end department stores. The 12,500-acre Rhug Estate, based near Corwen in North Wales, already supplies its award-winning Wild Beauty range to Fortnum and Mason in London’s Picadilly. With a history dating back to 1707, the independent retailer – famed…

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College to host open events for adults looking to re-educate and learn new skills

OPEN events for adults will take place at Coleg Cambria this summer.   Information sessions will be held at Deeside, and Bersham Road and Yale in Wrexham, on Wednesday June 4 from 4pm-7pm. The college supports prospective adult learners looking to re-educate and gain skills, or anyone planning a change of career, a new hobby,…

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Cambria learner Harry Ashfield signs new deal with Wrexham AFC

HARRY Ashfield has signed a new contract with Wrexham AFC until the end of the 2026/27 season, with the option of an additional year. A Level 3 Sports learner at Coleg Cambria Yale and former Darland High School pupil, he won the Bob Clark Academy Player of the Year for the 2023/24 season after impressing for…

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Under pressure students show their metal ahead of UK skills tournament

UNDER pressure learners were put to the test in preparation for the UK ‘Skills Olympics’. A group of Aircraft Maintenance students and apprentices from Coleg Cambria Deeside completed a ‘pressure test’ against the clock and under the watchful eye of Jamie Mapp-Jones, Curriculum Director of Full-time Apprenticeships, and Technical Training Officers (TTO) Caleb Maxfield and…

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Coleg Cambria quartet hungry for success at Wales Food and Drink Awards

COLEG CAMBRIA is hungry for success in a prestigious national food and drink competition. Despite an “overwhelming” number of entries, the college – based in Wrexham, Llysfasi, Deeside and Northop – has four finalists in two categories at this year’s Wales Food and Drink Awards. Iâl Bakery apprentices Naomi Spaven and Ella Muddiman, and Maelor…

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FE/HE Minister launches new state-of-the-art ‘inclusive kitchen’ at Coleg Cambria

COLEG CAMBRIA launched a state-of-the-art new training kitchen in partnership with The Savoy Educational Trust. The cutting-edge facility was part-funded by the Trust and is located alongside Iâl Restaurant in the college’s £21m Hafod building in Wrexham. Officially unveiled by Vikki Howells MS, Minister for Further and Higher Education, the ‘inclusive kitchen’ reinforces Cambria’s commitment to…

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Coleg Cambria calls for end to travel ‘postcode lottery’ facing learners in North Wales

COLEG CAMBRIA has called for Wales-wide student transport equity and condemned the ‘postcode lottery’ facing learners and their families. The college is calling for urgent action to address the “absence of equality” in student transport funding across Wales, where a “postcode lottery” is leaving many learners and their families “bearing the brunt of unfair travel…

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Coleg Cambria learners took on nation’s best at annual skills tournament

LEARNERS and apprentices representing Coleg Cambria and its industry partners shone at this year’s Skills Competition Wales. Students from across the country descended on University of South Wales’s (USW) Newport Campus for the event, a Welsh Government-funded initiative coordinated by Inspiring Skills Excellence in Wales. In total, up to 120 young people from Cambria took…

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Elite of Welsh baking will rise to the occasion at inaugural college conference

THE elite of Welsh baking will rise to the occasion at an inaugural college conference. Coleg Cambria Yale in Wrexham will host the Wales Bakery Conference 2025 on Wednesday (February 26) from 10am-3pm. The Hafod building is to welcome the very best of the industry for the one-day expo, which will feature trade stands, networking…

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