8 Bucks Student, Monday 7th March, 2011
Five-star Missenden Abbey maintains record for excellent food hygiene standards
Missenden Abbey Conference Centre has once again been awarded the highest possible rating, five stars, from Chiltern District Council for its high standard of food service and hygiene. The award helps the Abbey to continue its unbroken record of achieving the top award, now gained for the fourth consecutive occasion. The Abbey is the only conference centre within the Chiltern District Council area to be awarded five stars, and only 39 businesses in total have achieved this score. A fantastic accomplishment for the Abbey. The Council’s Environmental Health Manager concluded that Missenden Abbey, which is owned by Bucks New University, ‘provides an excellent performance level’, and that it ‘has an excellent level of compliance with food hygiene legislation and recommended best practice guidance’. As a result the Abbey has been awarded the coveted five-star rating. Steve Crawford, Centre Director at Missenden Abbey, said: “This is the fourth occasion that we have achieved the highest award and it is a great credit to all of the catering team, particularly Phil Child, Acting Head Chef, and Ann Emery, Food & Beverage Manager, for their hard work and high standards of professionalism. Our next goal is to achieve a fifth consecutive five-star award!” Councillor Isobel Darby, Chiltern District Council’s Cabinet Member for Health and Housing, added:
“Congratulations to all involved at Missenden Abbey in achieving consistently high standards year after year. We are looking forward to their continued success.” Missenden Abbey Conference Centre has a fascinating history having been originally founded as a working monastery in 1133. It now offers a unique combination of modern residential training facilities together with warm hospitality, all set in a 12th century abbey. Available all year round, it has 20 fully equipped conference rooms and 57 en-suite bedrooms. The Abbey can host corporate events, meetings, training and team building, presentations and conferences, as well as weddings and private functions. Set in the heart of The Chilterns, Missenden Abbey lies in over ten acres of picturesque lawn and parkland, and yet it is within convenient reach of the M25, M40 and M1 motorways as well as mainline train stations, and is just 30 miles from central London. The Abbey is an active member of Conference Centres of Excellence, a group promoting the concept that dedicated venues provide an ideal location for business events. It is also a member of the Meetings Industry Association, the leading association for the meetings industry. For more information on Missenden Abbey Conference Centre, check out www.missendenabbey.co.uk
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Above: (L-R) Prof Trevor Nicholls, Pro Vice Chancellor - Campus & Facilities, Bucks New University; Phil Child, Acting Head Chef at Missenden Abbey and Steve Crawford, Centre Director at Missenden Abbey.
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Students from Bucks New University have recorded and, in association with Forbidden Helmet Productions, co-produced a brand new radio sketch show entitled ‘Alien Fudge’. The project is the brain-child of writers Alex Babic, Joff Thompson and Ian Williams, who both wrote and performed their material for the show with actresses Nicola Borthwick and Christine Strickett. The team came to Bucks with the aim to embark on the show’s production and enlisted the assistance of four second year Audio and Music Production students. The students, Freyja Lawson, James Williams, Scott Graves and Christopher Wadey, recorded and edited the pilot episode using the university’s excellent audio facilities during the 2010 festive period. Ian Williams, a writer and actor for Alien Fudge, said that “Working with the team at BNU has been an absolute delight. They have remained focused on the goal and have been extremely professional. They have been flexible throughout and have been very open and responsive to changes we have had to make during the process. Not only have they been both fun and friendly, but have been as passionate about the whole project as we, the writers and performers, have been. Very big thumbs up - I would recommend these guys to anyone.”
By James Williams Both students and staff from the University whom are involved with the project have all expressed their joy at the show’s creation, as well as the news that a second show has been commissioned by BBC Oxford which will be recorded and edited at the university throughout February. Stephen Partridge, the head of Production in the Faculty of Design, Media and Management and who helped to bring Alien Fudge to the university, said that “The BA (Hons) Audio & Music Production second year students have risen commendably to the challenge of working with an extremely ambitious and highly committed group of comedy writers. The results to date are without doubt broadcast quality, with some outstanding creative sound design. The output compares very favourably in relation to existing early evening BBC Radio 4 comedy, which is the target market for the writers’ work.” ‘Alien Fudge’ will air on BBC Oxford radio on Sunday March 6th and March 13th at 9:00pm. If you’re in the Oxford area, either tune into 95.2 FM or visit http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/bbc_radio_ oxford/ to listen online.