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Our education and training programmes at Dumfries House, delivered by The King’s Foundation, provide outdoor education and training in traditional skills in the beautiful surroundings of the estate.
About our programmes
Learning in nature
We train learners of all ages in traditional and sustainable crafts, and improve access to, and understanding, of the natural world.
We have a range of different education centres across our 2,000-acre estate where we teach these programmes – from sustainable textiles, to hospitality, to horticulture and farm-to-fork learning.
Our subject areas
Activity and Adventure
Building Arts and Crafts
Farming and Rural Skills
Fashion and Textiles
Horticulture and Sustainable Food Systems
Hospitality
STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths)
Graeme Bone, from Auchinleck, who runs his own menswear and highlandwear business“The King’s Foundation has given me a new lease of life, allowing me to carve out a career path I didn’t think would be attainable. Much of my success, and the fact I’m now making a name for my tailoring worldwide, is down to the training and industry contacts I made at Dumfries House.”
Our centres across the Dumfries House estate
Our programmes
Food for the Future
Our Food for the Future programme gives school pupils the skills, knowledge and experiences of food production systems to enable them to reduce food waste.
The programme, delivered in partnership with the Jamie Oliver Group and Jimmy Doherty, gives pupils a series of industry site visits and masterclasses before coming up with their own innovative solution to a food waste issue. A number of these projects have gone on to impact their school’s longer-term approach to food waste. The project has been commended in the Scottish Parliament and identified as best practice by the Education Scotland curriculum innovation team.
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