An intrepid group of children from Westminster Community Primary School in Ellesmere Port recently explored the Regatta Ltd’s UK Distribution centre at Pioneer Point, as part of a visit organised by local Community Interest Company Passion for Learning. Regatta Ltd have generously committed to sponsor the Enrichment Club at Westminster Primary and the children’s visit to the warehouse marked the beginning of this connection between the business and the school. During their visit, the children learnt about how and where Regatta’s range of clothing and equipment is manufactured, seeing first-hand the link between recycling plastic and the material used to make fleece garments. They tested the waterproof qualities of Regatta’s outdoor-wear using water pistols and even had the chance to drive child-sized fork lift trucks to test their skills at manoeuvring miniature pallets! One of the visit highlights for the children was witnessing a driver in the warehouse abseiling from his fork-lift truck cab 30 feet high in the air, as part of a simulated emergency exercise. The children then had the opportunity to sit in the driver’s seat themselves, many of them enthusing about the prospect of getting a job at Regatta in the future. Headteacher at Westminster Community Primary Sue Finch who accompanied the children on the trip said: “This has been an incredible visit for us which has gone above and beyond all our expectations. The children loved having this unique insight into a world which they had no knowledge of. “These experiences are so valuable and… [Read full story]
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