The Food Hub gives learners, trainers and education partners access to a food and drink environment shaped by production, hospitality, product development, food science, visitor experience and enterprise. Skills are developed beside businesses that are producing, employing, selling, serving and growing from Drumshanbo.
The Hub has long acted as a culinary and food product training and development centre for the North West and border region. It has hosted third-level ATU student work placements in food science, and its wider enterprise activity has shown strong demand from food businesses for skills in product development, quality control and production.
MSLETB is an anchor education partner at The Food Hub, and together with Leitrim Partnership, established a culinary training centre for hospitality and culinary skills. The Hospitality Operations QQI Level 5 programme has created a pathway to employment for over 600 people since launch.
This makes education at The Food Hub practical, connected and purposeful. Learners are gaining skills in a place where food and drink enterprise is already happening around them.
Training takes place in a food and drink setting shaped by tenant businesses, café hospitality, premium drinks, food production and regional networks.
The Food Hub helps build the people pipeline needed by food, hospitality and related businesses in Leitrim and the wider North West.
MSLETB’s culinary training activity supports learners to build practical skills and progress towards employment, further training or enterprise.
The Hub has hosted ATU food science placements and is linked to skills needs in product development, quality control, production and future food innovation.
The next phase of Drumshanbo’s food infrastructure places stronger emphasis on knowledge and talent, including food science and innovation training, R&D space, food testing, food tech units and direct training for 300 learners.
At The Food Hub, education is connected to the place where food and drink enterprise happens: production, hospitality, food science, skills, employment and innovation in one Drumshanbo setting.
