New manager cooks up a storm
A charity which runs the Shropshire Hills Discovery Centre in Craven Arms has appointed a new manager.
Grant Wilson has managed the National Trust's commercial and catering operations at Carding Mill Valley for the last eight years and previously converted an old public house in Cheshire into one of the region's finest gastro pubs. He will join the Grow Cook Learn on October 9.
Professor Charles Edwards, chair of Grow Cook Learn, said: "We are lucky to have someone who understands the Shropshire Hills visitor market so well, who is passionate about local food and our beautiful and historic landscape and who is full of expertise and ideas about telling the story of food here - past, present and future - to young and old."
Grant added: "I am so excited to have this opportunity to build on what Grow Cook Learn has started to achieve with the centre and its meadows and I look forward to working with the current staff, volunteers and supporters to make the centre a truly inspiring and fun place to visit, learn and do things."
Grow Cook Learn took over the running of the Discovery Centre in 2014 when its ownership was passed from Shropshire Council to South Shropshire Housing Association (now Connexus) under a community asset transfer arrangement. The charity's mission is to help people appreciate the connection between food, landscape and history in the Shropshire Hills. In autumn, alongside the Autumn Apple Day and Bonfire and Fireworks events, it will be running a Ready Steady Cook cookery programme for vulnerable adults and others, funded by Ludlow Food Festival.
