News & Events

Plumpton equine students at You Horse Live (Total Confidence) over the weekend at Ardingley Show grounds

This weekend the equine students were at the new Equine event ‘Your Horse Live (Total confidence)’ which took place at Ardingley show grounds. The Plumpton Equine students helped in the stewarding of all the clinics and also with...

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Plumpton College launches the UK’s first Wine Business Degree

Plumpton College launches the first Wine Business honours degree in the United Kingdom, for those seeking a high-level career in the wine trade.

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Plumpton shire at the London Harness Horse parade on Easter Monday

The college shire horses started their showing season with Deighton Dick driven by the Head of Equine Michelle Johnston taking part in the London harness horse parade at Ardingley show grounds on Eater Monday in glorious sunshine....

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MAY HORSE SHOW SCHEDULE

Download May Horse Show Schedule 16th May 2015 (pdf, 6mb)

Download Entry Form (pdf, 290kb)

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Shooting Competition

On Sunday 29th March at Garlands Shooting Ground Hannah Gibson a member of the Admissions Team took part in the English Open Compac Championships and came 2nd in the ladies category and finished 26th overall out of 140...

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Cragside

From Monday 16th March 10 students from the College’s Forestry and Arboriculture department spent a week at the Cragside Estate in Northumberland.

Cragside is run and owned by the National Trust and covers over  1000 acres, with...

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“Make a Sussex Trug” Course

Dominic Parrette of sussexwillow.co.uk a regular tutor at Plumpton College at Flimwell, once more presented his excellent and popular “make a Sussex Trug” course. The course takes learners through the whole process from cutting,...

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Trouble Free Winemaking Posters

Every year, our 2nd year viticulture and oenology students prepare posters examining common and not-so-common winemaking problems.  They then present these posters to their peers and industry experts at the annual “Trouble-Free...

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Tree Climbing and Aerial Rescue at Plumpton College

Plumpton College at Flimwell is this week the venue for Level 2 Awareness in Tree Climbing and Aerial Rescue.

Joe from Bartletts Tree Surgeons www.bartletttree.co.uk said “the last tree climbing I did was when I was a...

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Danish Viticulture by Professor Torben Bo Toldam-Andersen

Professor Toldam-Andersen is a Pomologist by background who has spent many years at the University of Copenhagen focussing on aspects of fruit and berry physiology, quality and processing. Over the past ten years, as the...

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