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Land Rover Pull
Plumpton College students held a Land Rover pull challenge with a difference! The aim of the competition is to promote the college and its association with local businesses. However it is more than that, it's also a way to...
L1.47 million of EU Grants Available To Local Businesses
The latest LEADER support programme, announced by the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs, will provide grants to small businesses, farmers, foresters and communities for projects that create jobs and grow the rural...
Passion flowers into winners
Plumpton College Floristry students have proved that an early morning start is really the best start for a professional career as a florist. The students were judged winners at the New Covent Garden inter-college competition in...
College Student Winners at South of England Agricultural Society’s Project Competition Awards
Charles Jennings won the South of England Agricultural Societies Top project in Further Education at Level 3 at the Ardingly Autumn Fair last weekend. Charles is studying Countryside and Environment at the college and is...
Macmillan cake and coffee morning
Staff at Plumpton College baked a variety of delicious cakes and biscuits to sell for The World’s Biggest Coffee Morning. The event is Macmillan’s biggest fundraising event for people facing cancer. People all over the UK are...
Travis Perkins supports Countryside Management project at Plumpton College
Students from Plumpton College studying on the Countryside Management course have developed a scientific project into the bat species found on the College Estate.
Students Jade Stone and Beth Hughes used a previous survey, which...
Great Year for Sailing
We’ve had a great 2014/2015 sailing with nearly every week, being able to get afloat, which certainly showed through with the great standard of sailing shown by all the academy members. We qualified 6 new dinghy instructors who...
APPOINTMENT OF NEW PRINCIPAL
The Governors of Plumpton College are pleased to announce that they have appointed Jeremy Kerswell as the new Principal at the College.
He will be replacing Des Lambert OBE, FRAgS, who is retiring after over 40 years at the...
Edenbridge show
Despite the wet weather the college did well at this year's Edenbridge show.
The College's Centre at Ivyland showed their Berkshire pigs and Border Leicester sheep and did well in both ‘pairs classes’ for pigs and sheep against...
Matthew Grimstone tribute
The college was saddened with the news that Matthew Grimstone lost his life in the Shoreham air crash tragedy.
Matthew was a former greenkeeping apprentice with the college, completing last year, and had taken several courses...
Learn more about our history
Since the original 400-acre College farm was bought back in 1919, Plumpton College has certainly seen a lot of changes.

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