Meat, poultry and butchery training courses

Skills and qualifications in the meat and poultry industry

From butchery training courses to improve an individual’s career prospects to butcher school master classes for large retailers and supermarkets, our range of butcher, poultry and meat training courses have it all. At the National Skills Academy for Food and Drink we have a network of specialist training providers offering over 40 butcher related courses and qualifications from simply skills training to nationally recognised accredited qualifications such as an NVQ, SVQ or IPQ.

By investing in butcher training classes for your business, you’ll not only raise the skills of your personnel, but also the standards of what you’re offering your customers, and you’ll also become a more efficient, leaner business.

See our latest meat and poultry training courses

We’ve picked out a selection of courses in the panel on your right, or you can see our full range of meat, poultry and butchery courses here. You can also learn more by joining our meat and poultry network groups or seeing our full list of training providers.

Through our UK-wide network of training providers we can offer a range of meat and poultry training courses including:

• Beef, lamb, pork, venison & game butchery courses
• Butchery master classes including butchery retail & presentation skills
• Poultry inspection, processing, cutting, rolling & dressing
• Meat processing, sausage making and burger manufacture
• Analysis of meat and fish products
• Ham curing & cooking and bacon curing & slicing
• Meat chemistry, meat microbiology & meat technology
• Meat based ready meals & puff pastry pie manufacture
• Food safety, carcase breakdown and knife skills

NEW Protection of Animals at Time of Killing (PATK) regulations

From January 2013, all employees working with animals and poultry – whether in care, movement, preparation or slaughter and process for human consumption – will need to have an appropriate proficiency qualification. Speak to us about making sure your business is prepared.

Innovative training for a thriving industry

The meat and poultry sector is vital to the UK economy. It employs over 67,500 workers across more than 975 businesses nationwide and contributes 17% of FDMP’s annual turnover