Eastleigh College hospitality and catering students won ten medals at the Bournemouth catering show with students taking home five silver medals, five bronze medals and two certificates of merits. All regional colleges competed as well as professional chefs, in various culinary classes, such as cold chicken preparation, bakery skills and napkin folding, to name but a few.

Eastleigh College entered five classes: Fish Fillet, Cold Chicken Preparation, Vegetable Cuts, Cocktails and Coffee and Decorative Cake. Catering students Luke Condell, Elliot Thompson and Tom Weston all won silver medals in the Fish Fillet class, where they had to prepare a flat fish into four different cuts. Dan Bungay won a sliver medal and Megan Porter won a bronze medal in the Cold Chicken Preparation, in which they had to prepare a chicken cut for sauté. Both preparation classes had sixty entries and Eastleigh College walked away with five silver medals! Megan also won a bronze medal in the Decorative Cake class. Crystal Barnes and Amy Little both won bronze medals in the Cocktails and Coffee class, in which they had twenty minutes to prepare a floater liqueur coffee and two cocktails in front of the judges. Crystal said:

"I was really nervous when I started, but I really enjoyed the competition and I will definitely do it again next year!"

First Year students also got to take part in the competition in the Vegetable Cut Class, where Fungai Kunaka won a bronze medal and Stuart Marshall and Ellis Cook both won certificates of merit.

Rob Strachan, lecturer in hospitality, said:

"This is the fifth year we have taken part, and the standard was really high this year. It was excellent to walk away with ten medals and I am very proud of everyone who took part."