Highclere Castle, the home of Downton Abbey, has seen an increase in visitors recently and is keen to invest in its staff to ensure that they have all the training required to meet new demands of the spectacular venue. They contacted Newbury College to deliver the CIEH Principals of Manual Handling Awareness course on site at the Castle.

Keen to maintain strong links with its local community College at Newbury, Lord Carnarvon joined 12 of his team to participate in the one day course which updated their skills and qualification in safe manual handling.

Julia Morgan from Highclere Castle organised the training and was pleased with the day's sessions and said, "Newbury College have delivered First Aid Courses to Highclere Castle for a number of years and we were pleased to contact them again for a course on Safe Manual Handling. They are very helpful, efficient and the process of arranging the course was straightforward. I am sure we will be contacting them again in the future."

Highclere Castle is one of England's most beautiful Victorian Castles set amidst 1,000 acres of stunning parkland. The Carnarvon family has lived at Highclere since 1679, and the current Castle stands on site of an earlier house, which in

turn was built on the foundations of the medieval palace owned by the Bishops of Winchester for some 800 years.

Emily Chandler, Business Development Executive from Newbury College said "Newbury College have a long-standing relationship with the team at Highclere Castle and we were happy to work with them to develop this day and deliver the training at the castle to meet their needs".