Three-times Olympic gold medallist Ben Ainslie will be the first person to carry the Olympic torch in the UK when it begins its 70 day journey on 19th May. The torch will travel 8,000 miles in total, starting from Land’s End and passing through 1018 cities, towns and villages before finally reaching the Olympic Stadium on 27th July.
VWA will be charting the progress of the Olympic torch by offering delegates 10% off all courses booked on the day that the torch is in your area. For example, if your company is based in Liverpool and you make your booking on 1st June, you’ll receive 10% off the normal price.
If the torch is in your locality on a weekend or bank holiday, simply book online or send an email to office@vwa.co.uk to confirm your booking and get your 10% discount.
The discount applies to all food safety, nutrition, HACCP or specialist courses taking place either in-house or at our training facility in Skipton, North Yorkshire, at any time this year.
Look out for daily Tweets and updates throughout the relay period and find out when the torch is in your area by clicking here for the official London 2012 relay route, or see below. Also, find out who’s carrying the torch in your area by clicking here.
| Date | Start | Finish |
| 19th May | Land’s End | Plymouth |
| 20th May | Plymouth | Exeter |
| 21st May | Exeter | Taunton |
| 22nd May | Taunton | Bristol |
| 23rd May | Bristol | Cheltenham |
| 24th May | Gloucester | Worcester |
| 25th May | Worcester | Cardiff |
| 26th May | Cardiff | Swansea |
| 27th May | Swansea | Aberystwyth |
| 28th May | Aberystwyth | Bangor |
| 29th May | Beaumaris | Chester |
| 30th May | Chester | Stoke-on-Trent |
| 31st May | Stoke-on-Trent | Bolton |
| 1st June | Bolton | Liverpool |
| 2nd June | Douglas | Castletown |
| 3rd June | Belfast | Portrush |
| 4th June | Coleraine | Derry |
| 5th June | Derry | Newry |
| 6th June | Dublin | Belfast |
| 7th June | Newcastle | Moorfields |
| 8th June | Stranraer | Glasgow |
| 9th June | Glasgow | Inverness |
| 10th June | Kirkwall | Lerwick |
| 11th June | Stornoway | Aberdeen |
| 12th June | Aberdeen | Dundee |
| 13th June | St Andrew’s | Edinburgh |
| 14th June | Edinburgh | Alnick |
| 15th June | Alnick | Newcastle-Upon-Tyne |
| 16th June | Gateshead | Durham |
| 17th June | Durham | Middlesbrough |
| 18th June | Middlesbrough | Hull |
| 19th June | Hull | York |
| 20th June | York | Carlisle |
| 21st June | Dumfries | Bowness-on-Windermere |
| 22nd June | Kendal | Blackpool |
| 23rd June | Lytham-St-Anne’s | Lancaster |
| 24th June | Salford | Leeds |
| 25th June | Leeds | Sheffield |
| 26th June | Sheffield | Cleethorpes |
| 27th June | Grimsby | Lincoln |
| 28th June | Lincoln | Nottingham |
| 29th June | Nottingham | Derby |
| 30th June | Derby | Birmingham |
| 1st July | Birmingham | Coventry |
| 2nd July | Coventry | Leicester |
| 3rd July | Leicester | Peterborough |
| 4th July | Peterborough | Norwich |
| 5th July | Norwich | Ipswich |
| 6th July | Ipswich | Chelmsford |
| 7th July | Chelmsford | Cambridge |
| 8th July | Cambridge | Luton |
| 9th July | Luton | Oxford |
| 10th July | Oxford | Reading |
| 11th July | Reading | Salisbury |
| 12th July | Salisbury | Weymouth |
| 13th July | Portland Bill | Bournemouth |
| 14th July | Bournemouth | Southampton |
| 15th July | Southampton | Portsmouth |
| 16th July | Portsmouth | Brighton & Hove |
| 17th July | Brighton & Hove | Hastings |
| 18th July | Hastings | Dover |
| 19th July | Deal | Maidstone |
| 20th July | Maidstone | Guildford |
| 21st July | Greenwich | Waltham Forest |
| 22nd July | Redbridge | Bexley |
| 23rd July | Lewisham | Wandsworth |
| 24th July | Kingston | Ealing |
| 25th July | Harrow | Haringey |
| 26th July | Camden | Westminster |
| 27th July | Hampton Court | Olympic Stadium |