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Celebrating Our 2025 VWA Excellence Award Winners

At VWA, we love recognising the incredible dedication, skill, and achievements of those who strive for excellence in food safety, auditing, and professional development. Our VWA Excellence Awards 2025 celebrate outstanding individuals and companies who have gone above and beyond in their learning, performance, and commitment to best practice.

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2 February 2026

SMETA 7.0 – Preparation is Key For a Stress-Free Audit

If you have an ethical audit this year, you should be aware that Sedex has now introduced its SMETA 7.0 methodology. Whilst many aspects of the audit are the same as your previous audit, there are some major changes to be aware of. That’s why we’re encouraging all our ethical audit customers to ensure they

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Ethical Trading

26 February 2025

100% exam success for Verner Wheelock Ethical Team

Verner Wheelock are delighted to reveal that every member of their Ethical Team has recently passed their IRCA Social Systems Auditor/Lead Auditor examination. This qualification is seen as the industry standard for social auditors and is recognised worldwide. MD Alison Wheelock explains, “Our Ethical Team, including myself, is responsible for organising and co-ordinating all our

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Ethical Trading

8 April 2024

The Excellence Awards Winners 2021

Anybody attending a Verner Wheelock course – whether here in Skipton, in-house, or remote – has a chance of being selected for a Verner Wheelock Excellence Award. There are awards for HACCP, Auditing and Food Safety as well as Individual Excellence, Company Excellence and Ethical Excellence. For the HACCP, Auditing and Food Safety Awards, our

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30 March 2022

VWA Excellence Award Winners 2020 Revealed

The Verner Wheelock Excellence Awards We might have been in lockdown and in and out of tiers last year, but the pandemic didn’t prevent us from delivering their training courses to the food industry or providing ethical audit services. It certainly didn’t stop us from presenting our annual Excellence Awards last week. The Verner Wheelock

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Food Safety & Hygiene News Auditing training Ethical Trading Food Safety Training HACCP training

25 January 2021