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Joel Pennington named 2026 Gold Service Scholarship Scholar
Joel Pennington, restaurant manager at The Cottage in the Wood, has been named the 2026 Gold Service Scholarship Scholar. Pennington, who works at

Customised Professional Development Programme for Winning Finalists
Following the success of earlier customised Executive Education programmes delivered at EHL Hospitality Business School Lausanne in 2019 and 2022, the Gold Service

London, Edinburgh, Cumbria, Oxfordshire and Perthshire all represented in 2026 Gold Service Scholarship final
Ten food and beverage front-of-house professionals from across the United Kingdom will compete in the 2026 Gold Service Scholarship final in January. Representing

Forty-eight hospitality professionals from across the UK named semi-finalists in the 2026 Gold Service Scholarship
Forty-eight hospitality professionals from across the UK – representing establishments from London to Stirlingshire, Cumbria to Devon – have been named semi-finalists in

Conor O’Leary appointed Trustee of the Gold Service Scholarship
The Gold Service Scholarship has announced the appointment of Conor O’Leary, group managing director of Gleneagles and Estelle Manor, to its board of

An Interview with 2025 Scholar, Isabella Condon
Just a few months have passed since Isabella was named as our 2025 Scholar, we caught up with her to discuss her career,

Isabella Condon named 2025 Gold Service Scholar
Isabella Condon, junior assistant manager at Dinner by Heston Blumenthal in London was named the 2025 Gold Service Scholar on Monday 10 February

Record-breaking 2025 Gold Service Scholarship winning finalists revealed
Ten young front of house professionals from across the UK will be competing in the final of the 2025 Gold Service Scholarship – the highest number of winning finalists since the competition

Gold Service Scholarship 2025 to host biggest ever semi-final
The Gold Service Scholarship 2025 semi-final is set to be the biggest the competition has ever seen with 50 young front-of-house professionals making the next round. The

GSS 2025 Launch
Clare Smyth, Tom Kerridge, Fay Maschler, and TopJaw’s Jesse Burgess will be joined by Marc Socker and Eugenio Pirri speaking at an event

Interview: Alain Najar at EHL Lausanne
As part of the suite of unique learning opportunities offered to Team Gold members, our winning finalists from 2023 and 2024 recently embarked

Five minutes with our 2024 Scholar, Scott Crowe
What brought you to the UK? How did you end up pursuing a career in hospitality? I left home at 19 to pursue