National Childhood Obesity – An Alternative view

As it’s National Childhood Obesity Week, Dr Verner Wheelock offers an alternative view on weight loss and obesity. Over 30% of UK children are overweight or obese Fictional characters they may be, but look around at today’s children and there is a very worrying trend towards obesity. According to the latest available figures from the […]

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Monthly Update from VWA – June 2013

Welcome to our June update – keeping you informed of all the latest news from Verner Wheelock Associates. June Training Courses We continued to be busy during June running open courses at our training centre in Yorkshire, and also in-house at customer premises. Skipton courses included two advanced RSPH courses – Level 4 Award in Food Safety, and the Diploma in

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What’s not to love about strawberries? Allergen Awareness

Anyone for tennis? Yes, Wimbledon started this week and let’s hope Andy Murray can repeat Sunday’s success when he won the trophy at Queen’s. We at VWA won’t be the lucky ones with a ringside seat at Centre Court SW19 (we’ve got courses to run! Including our new Creative Legal Labelling course) but we can

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Yorkshire Pudding World Championships at the Grassington Festival

As a proud Yorkshire company, we couldn’t let this week go by without mentioning the forthcoming Yorkshire Pudding World Championships which are a feature of the annual Grassington Festival in the Yorkshire Dales. The festival, which also celebrates art and music, runs from 14th to 29th June. The Yorkshire Pudding World Championships themselves take place

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Take a VWA Online course in your pyjamas!

Ever since we developed our first online course a few years ago, our e-learning options have proved exceedingly popular. Written by the same experienced tutors who run our classroom-based and in-house courses, our e-learning courses are ideal for people with a busy schedule or those who want to work at their own pace. They also

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