Catering Provider for Crowden Outdoor Education Centre

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Crowden Outdoor Education Centre (COEC) delivers high quality residential outdoor education to schools and youth groups. The benefits of outdoor education and residential experiences are widely acknowledged. These include improvements in confidence, concentration, resilience, self-awareness, interpersonal skills, life skills, and raised aspirations. COEC has a standard capacity of 40 beds with an additional 8 temporary beds available. COEC’s key offer is a full board and lodging activity package. Full board offer currently includes: • Breakfast: selection of cereals and cooked English breakfast. • Packed lunch: home-made sandwich, baked treat, fruit, crisps, yoghurt and drink. • Evening Meal: two courses with a “build your own” menu from extensive choice of dishes cooked fresh on site each day. Catering is currently charged on a per meal per person basis. For clarity, the charging figures used in this paper are based on a full board cost which covers a standard two-night residential, spanning three days of service delivery which includes: arrival day evening meal; interim day breakfast, lunch and evening meal; departure day breakfast and lunch. This provides two full board servings over the three days of the visit.