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Lindley teams up with Galpharm Stadium and Kirklees College
Lindley Venue Catering – which manages the catering services at the Galpharm Stadium in Huddersfield – is embarking on a new reciprocal education and training programme with the venue and the town’s Kirklees College.
The initiative will provide students in Kirklees College’s Catering, Travel and Tourism departments an opportunity to gain hands-on experience working as part of the Lindley Venue Catering team in match-day, conference, banqueting and event hospitality environments at the home of Huddersfield Town FC, both through work experience placements as well as paid temporary employment.
As part of the venture, Lindley Venue Catering also plans to work with Kirklees College to provide selected students with a personal development training programme, which on completion of their studies could lead to potential offers of full-time permanent positions within The Lindley Group’s UK-wide operation.
Under the reciprocal arrangement, Kirklees College will provide Lindley Venue Catering employees working at stadium the opportunity to study for formal qualifications and the college will also work with The Lindley Group to develop apprenticeship schemes.
Lindley Venue Catering was awarded the five-year, £10.3 million contract to manage all aspects of the match-day and non-match-day catering services at West Yorkshire’s, 51-acre Galpharm Stadium complex in July 2011. A key part of the caterer’s remit is to take a leading role in promoting and expanding usage of the multi-function site, which was established in 1991. Outside the football and rugby seasons, the Galpharm Stadium – which is managed and operated by Kirklees Stadium Development – can be converted to a concert arena accommodating up to 40,000 concert-goers.
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