Please help us shape a Business and Enterprise Centre for Lampeter As we start a new academic year the work on Tir Glas is picking up pace. The team at Lampeter are now working on the establishment of a Business and Enterprise Centre with specific aims to support, enable and encourage rural enterprise in Mid…
Are you considering setting up your own enterprise or are involved in an existing enterprise? Mixture of class and experience-based learning Opportunity to work with local organisations Gain academic credits with progression onto CertHE Sustainable Enterprise To enhance your entrepreneurial skills These courses will run from the Lampeter campus in January 2023. Sustainable Enterprise Community…
An independent conference on sustainable food and farming WRFFC #4 will be held on 23-25 November 2022, Lampeter, Ceredigion The Wales Real Food and Farming Conference was established to explore sustainable food and farming, bringing together farmers and other food businesses, environmentalists and people involved in public health, food education, food sovereignty and social justice. Its…
Wales Community Food Distribution, led by PLANED, is thrilled to have launched its first Ceredigion Food Hub in July on the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, Lampeter Campus, in conjunction with Canolfan Tir Glas. The project facilitates volunteers to link with food producers and suppliers to have easy access to healthy and great value…
‘Canolfan Tir Glas collaborating with Ceredigion County Council at the Eisteddfod in Tregaron’ CTG Coordinator was invited to arrange a programme of cookery demonstrations by Ceredigion Chefs and Food and Drink producers, to showcase the range of produce available in Ceredigion. The Ceredigion Village stand was the perfect set up to include a cookery corner,…
The students from St. Vincent and the Grenadines in the Caribbean are here in Lampeter on a three year undergraduate scholarship. There are thirty seven students who are undertaking degree courses ranging from International Development, Early Years Education, Health and Nutrition to Civil Engineering and Quantity Surveying. The university in Lampeter has a link to…
CTG are grateful to Esther Weller – Chair of the Lampeter Society for this blog: Esther will be officially opening the Lampeter Food Festival on Saturday 23rd July at 12.30 along with Mr Leno Conti. The Lampeter Society is pleased to support the Tir Glas initiative. As well as acting as a focus for alumni,…
Patrick Holden is one of the pioneers of the modern sustainable food movement who, during his period as Director of the Soil Association, between 1995 and 2010, played a key role in developing the UK organic market. Closely involved with standards development, Patrick’s extensive engagement with the public through successive media campaigns, played a key…
You will remember that we have been fortunate enough to develop an Apiary on the Campus with the help and support of expert bee keeper Peter Jenkins, (Mel ap Griff) and today we took delivery of our first batch of Mêl Tir Glas Honey. The honey will soon be available to purchase and we will…
