Food & Drink on Campus

As Dorset’s only college specialising in agriculture and country life, we love food.

At the heart of the campus The Coach House Café serves a wide variety of hot meals, salads and tasty snacks to both students and staff. Food is home-made onsite and caters for a wide variety of dietary requirements including vegan, vegetarian and gluten free. Classroom 4 Café sits on the eastern side of  the campus allowing students further afield to get their lunch in good time. This serves the same broad range of food as the Coach House Café at the same affordable prices.

Join us and share our passion for home sourced food and seasonality, allowing you to enjoy the finest produce from our own estate and other local providers, prepared and cooked by our onsite catering team.

We believe in tasty, nutritious food and we make nearly everything ourselves. This way we choose the best ingredients and do not compromise on quality. We now also use 100% compostable catering ware – made from special ‘vegetable plastic’.

Free School Meals:

The government, through the Education Funding Agency, is extending free meals from schools into Further Education colleges.

For eligible students, a free meal to the value of £3.50 will be provided by the college each weekday. These will be available when you are timetabled to be at the college, including any off-site trips, and work placements within term time.

Student or parents must still be eligible for free meals. One of the documents below will need to be copied to Student Support:

• • Income Support
  • Income-based Jobseekers Allowance
  • Income-related Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)
  • Support under part VI of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999
  • The guarantee element of State Pension Credit
  • Child Tax Credit (provided not entitled to Working Tax Credit) with an annual gross income of no more than £16,190, as assessed by HMRC. Whole Tax Credit document required.
  • Working Tax Credit run-on – paid for 4 weeks after you stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit during the initial rollout of the benefit, Universal Credit
  • Universal Credit (UC) with net earnings not exceeding the equivalent of £7,400 for each year (after tax and not including any benefits they get)