Catering and Retail Outlets

The Garden Room

The Garden Room is the main campus restaurant serving a variety of meals, snacks and drinks throughout the day. essential groceries, stamps and confectionary is also available. College clothing is also available to order from the restaurant. With outside seating area, and situated next to landscaped gardens it is also a place where students gather to meet and relax. It opens from 8:00am - 7.00pm Monday - Friday with additional weekend opening as advertised.

The Watering Hole

Is the catering service for students based at Cow Watering Campus. Open Monday to Friday, 8:30am - 1:45pm, offering breakfast, fast food, sandwiches, confectionery and drinks. A vending machine service is also available.

Vending Services

Drinks and snacks, via vending machines, are also available in the Turner Building and the Recreation Centre.

Fairtrade

Writtle College, as part of its commitment to sustainability, strives to be a Fairtrade College. At the instigation of the student body and with the full and enthusiastic support of senior management, a steering group was set up in January 2005 to take this commitment forward. Fairtrade foods are available in all retail and catering outlets in the College and there is a commitment to extend the range of products offered. Fairtrade foods are served at all meetings hosted by the College and the SU and in all management offices. Fairtrade is promoted via College noticeboards and through events such as the Food, Farming and Fair Trade Conference organised by the Centre for the Environment and Rural Affairs (CERA). A series of events is being planned by the SU and the catering department for Fairtrade Fortnight 2006 which will further promote Fairtrade to staff and students of the College.

A wide range of products now carries the Fairtrade mark, ensuring that producers receive a fair price for their goods and a premium to provide stability for their work. The College regularly reviews its range of products to see where it is possible to extend the Fairtrade range.