Situated in the Pavilion building, in the wonderful location of Belle Vue Park on the outskirts of Newport, the beautifully restored Conservatory Tea Room offers catering and retail training. The training helps students to develop both social and customer care skills, at the same time as providing a service to the community.

The Tea Rooms are popular with local residents as well as the many people who visit this beautiful park with its walkways bordered by wonderful mature specimen trees.
The food is prepared in our own kitchen by students undergoing training in catering skills. The Tea Rooms serve light refreshments throughout the day including freshly made sandwiches, jacket potatoes, and soup of the day as well as delicious fresh cakes, ice creams and afternoon teas.
Weekdays: 10am to 4pm
Weekends: 11am to 5pm
Students learn to prepare food, use equipment and serve customers as well as gaining experience of basic retail skills.
An Individual Training Plan (ITP) is developed for each student, this includes skills such as:
The training at Belle Vue also delivers the Vision 21 soft skills development programme. In addition to developing catering skills the training focuses on developing confidence, interpersonal skills, and communication skills, working as part of a team, motivation, timekeeping, behaviour and reliability amongst others
OCN accreditation can also be undertaken in catering and related skills through an innovative partnership with the Newport Community Education service. Students can also undertake their basic food hygiene certificate.
Students at Belle Vue receive a health and safety induction including, manual handling, risk assessment and fire safety awareness. Students can also be referred to our TAM project for additional life skills, employment and independent living guidance as appropriate.
All Newport City County referrals need to go through the Newport Access Supported Employment team. Please refer to the Newport referral information on the Student referrals page.

The tea rooms also provide a buffet service for many types of events and parties that take place in the function rooms in the Pavilion as well as offering catering for outside events.
The Vision 21 buffet service offers a range of prices to suit needs as well as delicious food and value for money.
| MENU A £7.50 per head Quiche – including meat and vegetarian, Green salad Tomato, onion and black olive salad Curried couscous Coleslaw Hot buttered new potatoes | MENU C £7.00 Sandwiches – Egg, Tuna, Cheese, and ham Mixed salad Chicken drumsticks Crudités with a selection of dips Coleslaw |
| MENU B £7.50 per head Selection of cold meats to include ham, beef and chicken tikka Greek salad Carrot, sultana and nut salad Bean salad with salami and mushrooms Green salad Hot buttered new potatoes Coleslaw | MENU D £5.50 Sandwiches – Egg, Tuna, Ham and Cheese Sausage rolls Vegetarian rolls Crudités with a selection of dips Crisps CHOICE OF DESSERTS @ £2.50 |
