Case study
Our Excel programme
Our Excel programme has been created to support people leaving custody to obtain new skills and find employment in one of our pubs. We recruit to fixed criteria ensuring the safety of our teams and our guests and, since 2022, we have recruited ex-offenders all over England and Wales from a wide range of diverse backgrounds and helped them on their way to a career in the hospitality sector into a variety of roles from Sales & Service to Head Chef.
This year we were extremely proud to open ‘The Lock Inn’ which is our dedicated training facility inside HMP Liverpool. The Lock Inn has been converted to look and feel like a Marston’s kitchen and we run a 13-week Chef course up to 4 times a year to train a cohort of 10 men to chef Level 1 (CDP skillset) with a guaranteed job offer in a Marston’s pub for those who complete it.
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Chef course is run at our training facility
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being trained every year to chef Level 1
CASE STUDIES
Two National awards for our menus
In March 2023, we won two awards at the Menu Innovation and Development Awards (MIDAS) 2023 for the best menu in the Neighbourhood
The Bluebell’s quiz teams raise over £15k for local charities
Over the last two years, Bluebell’s quiz teams raised over £15k for local charities.
Pubs Code Adjudicator (PCA) survey
Marston's was rated as the top performer across the board by its Pub Partners.
Great British Pub Awards
Two of our pubs were voted top in their categories.