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Duke of Edinburgh Bronze Award - Public Services
Our Public Services students (levels 1-3) recently completed their Bronze Duke of Edinburgh expedition in Epping Forest!
Well done to everyone involved, what a great achievement!
The Carnival Fashion Show– fundraising for the Herts and Essex Air Ambulance.
The Isabel Hospice 40th Anniversary Fashion Show!


- BTEC Level 3 National Foundation Diploma in Business.
- UAL Diploma Fashion & UAL Extended Diploma Fashion.
- BTEC Level 3 Extended Certificate in Marketing.
- Level 1 Construction skills.
- VTCT Level 2 in Hair and Media make-up.
- Professional Cookery students.
- Production Arts Level 3 years 1 and 2.
- HND Creative Media Production.
- BTEC Extended Diploma in Business.


The London Regional Heat of the Guild of Bricklayers Competition, hosted by HRC - with two student wins!
On Thursday 28th April, Hertford Regional College had the honour of hosting the Guild of Bricklayers London Regional Heat Competition.
Each year the Guild, through its network organise regional competitions which are sponsored by brick, mortar, and tool manufactures attracting some 300 competitiors a year. The regional competitions form part of the National Building Craft Competition scene, which lead to a National Final Competition. Guild members serve on advisory panels of all the technical institutes, and supervise competition stands at local and national exhibitions. Assistance is also given to the Worshipful Company of Tylers and Bricklayers in their triennial awards.
The results:
We are delighted that two HRC students won both categories and are through to the Nationals!
Junior Competitor Winner: Owen Roberts
Senior Competitor Winner: Jay Grainger
A massive congratulations to both students who worked incredibly hard to win the awards. A huge achievement and a credit to HRC!
A huge thank you to all of the sponsors and businesses who contributed to the event. And a massive thank you to Jack Dawson and the Construction team who enabled the event to go ahead and run smoothly, well done all.
Bring on the National finals in June!
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Country Range Student Team Competition - March 2022
On Tuesday 22nd March, 3 of our talented student chefs took part in the tough Country range Student Team Competition at the Hotel and Catering show held at London’s Excel Centre, where they were titled runners up!👏🏽🎉️
This was the first time HRC has made it into the final cook-off (what is known as the hospitality and catering Olympics!)
8 teams from colleges across the country were tasked with producing 3 courses of food.
Our menu consisted of:
- Smoked Fish Canapes
- Guinea Fowl, Ratatouille, and Pecorino Jus
- Apple and Verbena tart
A huge well done to the boys Romon-Te Harvey, Lucas Woods and Shane Hutt for the runners up prize!
The exciting day concluded with Tiah Palmer-Marshall (Level 3 student) receiving a merit award for her creative Alice in Wonderland cupcakes, in the junior cupcake competition. Our Chef Tutor Lisa Braxton Jones received a silver award in the senior cupcake competition with her beautiful designs depicting flowers from different seasons in her garden! Well done Tiah and Lisa!
Thank you to Country Range for having us and to the team at HRC who supported and coached our students! Well done to New City College for winning and Loughborough College for joint runners up with us!