Lakeside Hotel on Lake Windermere is delighted to have the opportunity to develop the ‘Lake District Training Academy’ at Trinity House Hotel.
The Hotel is staffed in all departments by much-needed young people wishing to make a career in the Hotel and Catering trade of Cumbria. Trinity House trades as a normal hotel, while at the same time allowing Apprentices the opportunity to be openly coached and trained ‘on the job’.
It's traditionally hard in the hotel and hospitality business to find good staff, so the Academy really arose from a pressing need to recruit our own staff.

There has simply been no culture of young men and women joining the hospitality business in the Lake District - it has been crying out for them for years. Young adults leaving school in Barrow and Ulverston were encouraged to think shipbuilding and the ancillary industries generated by shipbuilding.
Once so many jobs in the shipyards had gone we had an unemployment situation on our doorstep. And yet we in the hotel business also had jobs on the doorstep for those who couldn't get work as past generations had known it.

The Vision
The vision for the Academy is to give young people the skills and confidence to offer many of the services associated with a four star hotel, that will lead to permanent jobs in the Lake District’s growing hospitality industry.