To celebrate Scottish Food & Drink Fortnight, VION Food Group, the Royal Highland Educational Trust (RHET) and Scotland Food & Drink are joining together to host the first educational farm visit of the new school year.
Date:
Thu, 08 Sep 2011
Source:
VION Food Group
VION Food Group, based in Livingston, is one of the UK’s major food companies and has announced a three-year sponsorship of the Royal Highland Education Trust (RHET) to provide educational farm visits for Scottish schoolchildren.
Over 30 P3 and P4 year pupils from Cargilfield School in Edinburgh will travel to Craigie’s Farm at South Queensferry to take their first classroom to the countryside.
RHET, a charity that receives its core funding from the Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland (RHASS), last year provided over 15,000 Scottish schoolchildren with a visit to Scottish farms.
The charity aims to give every child in Scotland the opportunity to learn about food, farming and the countryside, and to create a wider understanding of the environmental, economic and social realities of rural Scotland.
The event takes place on Monday, 12th september and will be attended by Stephen Hutt, chief executive of RHASS, James Withers, the new chief executive of Scotland Food & Drink, Ton Christiaanse, chief executiveo of VION Food Group and farmer John Sinclair of Craigie’s Farm.
Scottish Food & Drink Fortnight kicked off on 3rd September and runs until 18th September.
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