Seafood Industry Training at Billingsgate Seafood Training School

These include free introductory workshops, low cost foundation certificates, sponsored events, seafood masterclasses, quality assessment of seafood, knife skills training, and independent and multiple seafood retailers training packages. All profits from commercial courses fund free courses for young people.

"One of the main aims of the Seafood School is to encourage young people and those wanting to change career to consider the Seafood Industry. Since the School was established in 2000 we have have focused on developing our schools programmes to promote seafood together with benchmarking industry-wide training. To cater for our wide client base we offer both selection of scheduled events and tailored programmes, designed specifically to individual clients needs."

"We are also now starting to offer Seafood Masterclases particularly aimed at Chefs, such as our Knife Skills Masterclass and our Sushi and Sashimi Masterclass. Over the coming months we will be developing this side of our portfolio."

Celebrating Sustainable Seafood - Billingsgate School's Sustainable fish and shellfish award 2008

Waitrose has Billingsgate trained Fish Specialists in 119 of their branches across the UK

See a great article about the School's work in the Financial Times here.

Our free introductory events include 'Get into Fishmongering!' and 'Get into Fish frying!'

We have recently produced an Introduction to Fishmongering developed in conjunction with the Sea Fish Industry Authority (Seafish), course dates and more information here.

We offer opening learning work books (for distance learning) for easy access to Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) Level 2 Certifcates in Food Safety and Health and Safety certificates. The work books are completed in the candidates own time and require approximately six hours to complete. Once completed a multiple choice exam needs to be sat here at the Billingsgate. The cost of these packages is £50 plus £5 p&p if they are not collected from the market. This price includes registration, the work book, one exam and certificate on passing the exam, contact us here.

Our Quality Assessment of Seafood courses are designed for environmental health officers and technical managers within seafood companies, they focus on fish and shellfish. The delivery team includes experts from Billingsgate, Fishmongers' Company, Seafish and the Shellfish Association of Great Britain. The days delivers 7.5 hours certificated CPD. More information here.

We work closely with Seafish, City & Guilds and Fishmongers' Company to offer a range of tailored and open courses. City and Guilds and Fishmongers' Company sponsor courses for individuals wanting to work or develop their career within the seafood industry, on two annual City & Guilds Retail Certificate courses, more information here.

Knife skills training, for open programme dates click here, for enquiries on tailored courses for independant and multiple retailers please contact us here

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