My son is working in our local pub and really enjoys it. He wants to progress and get qualifications to the point where he can have the experience and qualifications to know how to run his own pub in the future, he's only 19 so not many people would employ him at his age without the knowledge and skills needed. Can anyone advise us on how to proceed.

It's probably worth looking into pub management training. Chains of public houses often do this.

My son is working in our local pub and really enjoys it. He wants to progress and get qualifications to the point where he can have the experience and qualifications to know how to run his own pub in the future, he's only 19 so not many people would employ him at his age without the knowledge and skills needed. Can anyone advise us on how to proceed.


The thing about the pub trade is the big breweries do not have as much pubs now as what they used to thanks to Mrs thatcher and the monopolies and mergers commission. So unless he works for Weatherspoons he will not have much chance around here as the small chains do not have many managerial vacancies unless you want to lease a pub from places like Punch Taverns.

We have looked on the internet for pub chains to see if they did training courses but no luck there.

hi, your son needs to get himself a personal license from the council.
in order to get one he must gain a qualification from the British institute of innkeepers. (BII).
The qualification needed can be got in one day from a sheffield based company called Bell Davies associates. They run day courses at the Mega Centre, an external examiner from the BII comes in at the end of the day course and gives you a test, you must achieve 68% or more to pass.
no experince is required to take the course and it is easy.
The course mainly covers the licensing act.

Your son will get a job no problem with this qualification.

I hope this is helpful.

I run a mobile bar hire company. i will be looking for occasional staff next summer if he is interested.

Martin.

Im sure wetherspoons/yates etc do them.

I did a HND in Hospitality Management at college, took 2 years full time and you can progress to degree stage, i also worked part time in a bar while i did this. It teaches you all the basics on service, food prep etc, and then accounts economics, though i dont use it in my current job, it was a good course.

I would like to say thanks for all the input you have given, my son has now just started a 10 week course at Castle college which will give him all the basic info that he will need for his future career.