"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 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 2010

Praise for our training:

"I have now attended several courses including; introduction to fishmongery, city and guilds in retail fishmongery and fish quality assessment. Thanks a lot to you and all the team who run these courses, they have helped me to progress from a fish counter assistant to a retail manager in just 10 months. I count myself very lucky that such brilliant courses as those offered by the Billingsgate seafood training school have been available to help me to this. Thanks for everything, I look forward to attending more courses in the future - certainly the shellfish course someday - and I may treat myself to the sushi and sashimi masterclass!" - D. Horgan, January 2009.

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.

Foundation Fishmongering Techniques for colleges

Open to Colleges and Catering Institutions who offer NVQ level 2 and 3
Billingsgate Fish Preparation Course

This course is run over 3.5 hours and includes a short escorted market visit and knife skills preparation session.
Arrive at the market at 6.45am for a brief introduction. 7.00 – 8.00am escorted visit of the market looking at species identification and quality assessment.
After breakfast (£3.50 per student) 1.5 hours of fish preparation with a fishmonger looking at:
Cleaning, gutting and filleting a round fish.
Trimming, filleting and skinning a flat fish.
Demonstration of 2 further species e.g squid, monkfish, gurnard, pollack or sea bass etc

Class size restricted to 12 students plus 2 teachers

The cost of this course is £75 per visit (to cover the cost of the fish) plus cost of breakfast.

Want to find out more? Submit online form here.

 

Introductory Fishmongering Courses for individuals

Our introductory events include 'Get into Fishmongering!' and Introduction to Fishmongering developed in conjunction with the Sea Fish Industry Authority (Seafish), course dates and more information here.

Food Safety course for individuals

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 £75 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.

Quality Assessment courses for Technical Managers and EHPs

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.

City & Guilds course for fishmongers

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 companies and individuals

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