Our Story

The Envesca Story

Back in 1996, in a small home office in Gloucester, Envesca was born. Sue and Simon Ellis created the business to deliver first-class food hygiene training.

With a vision of championing a safe and healthy environment and determined to build a company renowned for its exceptional customer service. They set about creating a business that offered customers a positive learning environment. In addition, they created learning that engaged, inspired, and encouraged candidates and delivered outstanding results. Today it’s these same principles that underpin everything Envesca does.

Our Guarantee To You

Customer satisfaction is our number one priority at Envesca.

If you, or a member of your team attends a course or enrols onto one of our eLearning courses and we do not deliver everything we promise, then we will refund every penny of your money. You have our promise.

Our Promise

We promise to make every Envesca experience outstanding.
We do this by:

Placing you at the heart of everything we do, treating you in a professional, friendly and caring manner.

Maintaining our integrity by delivering everything we promise with honesty, efficiency and reliability.

Championing a safe and healthy environment for the world in which we live and work.

Ensuring you remain up to date and competent by sharing our expertise, knowledge and skills with you.

Creating a positive learning environment that engages, inspires and encourages everyone involved and that delivers outstanding results.

Encouraging and supporting the continual learning and development of our team to ensure their skills and knowledge are constantly updated.

Providing the highest quality service by meeting your individual needs with accuracy, flexibility and consistency

Earning your respect and confidence by constantly exceeding your expectations.

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Awards and Accolades

Chartered Institute of Environmental Health Best Training Centre 2 years running

Citizen & Gloucestershire Echo Business Awards Small Business of the Year Finalist

CIEH Best Food Safety and Best Health and Safety Trainers 2 years running

Highfield’s Top Student Award for Level 4 Food Safety in Catering 2021

The Best Of’s Most Loved UK Business
voted by our customers

Finalist – Gloucestershire Business Women

of the Year 2017

“In 2021, Highfield Qualifications decided to re-introduce their Top Student Award to recognise the students that achieved top marks (from April 2020 to March 2021) in three of their most popular qualifications, the Highfield Level 4 Award in Managing Food Safety in Catering, the Highfield Level 4 Award in Food Safety Management for Manufacturing and the Highfield Level 4 Award in HACCP for Management.

We were delighted to discover that our candidate Hendrik Espach from McDonalds Restaurants Ltd had achieved the top mark in the Highfield Level 4 Award in Managing Food Safety in Catering, scoring an amazing 95% in his exam.

Being a Top 1% member means that we have made a commitment to be the best in our industry and we are working with the Top 1% team to continuously improve in order to remain the best.

We’ve made a commitment to support our local community, set the highest standards in how we go about our business, treat our staff well and actively develop them and serve our customers in a way that we ourselves would want to be served.

Our customers can therefore be confident they are dealing with the best of the best.

Awarding Bodies

IOSH are the world’s biggest professional health and safety membership organisation, they are the voice of the profession, campaigning on issues that affect millions of working people.

Highfield Qualifications are the UK’s leading awarding organisation for compliance qualifications and is recognised by Ofqual, the Welsh Government and SQA. Their qualifications cover a wide range of subjects.

Qualsafe is the UK’s largest Awarding Organisation for First Aid. With over 10 years of experience, they have a thorough understanding of what training companies need from an Awarding Organisation.

The Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) is one of the UK’s leading awarding body for vocational qualifications in food safety, health and safety and environmental protection.

What Our Customers Say About Us

I have just finished my Level 4 food safety course with Mel, and whilst I have completed the feedback form. I feel it did not give me the room to complete in-depth feedback on Mel and how she taught the course. Having never completed an online Zoom course before, I was somewhat apprehensive. From the start and throughout the course, Mel put me at ease. Mel’s exclamations throughout the course were clear, concise and easy to understand. It was apparent throughout the course that Mel knew her subject extremely well, and on the infrequent occasions we had obscure questions (two questions), Mel was straight to the point, stating she did not know and had the answers within about an hour rather than trying to bluff the answer. Whilst her teaching style appears relaxed, Mel was very professional and quickly got to know her students and their learning styles. I was a trainer for sixteen years for a national charity, so I have a good knowledge of the good and poorly run course. This was by far one of the best health and safety courses I have ever attended, and I would greatly appreciate it if you could please pass on to Mel my thanks for such an excellent course. I cannot rate Mel highly enough.

Tim Coyle

| HSQE Advisor |

Vertas

The course was a good refresher of my food safety knowledge. The trainer gave clear instructions and was very helpful. I would recommend this course to others needing to refresh their food safety knowledge.

Kate Hodgson

| Kitchen Assistant |

Sacred Heart School

I recently attended a Level 2 Food Safety Refresher Course, it was a very interesting course and a good refresher on the important food safety issues. I would definitely recommend this course to others.

Pamela Jennings

| Outwood Academy

The course was brilliant! The trainer was very knowledgeable and expertly shared this with us, which was really helpful. I would describe the course using the following three words helpful, excellent and knowledgeable. The fact it was delivered via Zoom was brilliant, too, as it saved on travel and accommodation costs and was the best way to update my knowledge in these challenging times. The whole course was perfect – hats off to Mr SImon Ellis!!

Rodita Michaelson

| Catering Manager |

St Catherine's College

I booked to do the food safety level 3 course online with Envesca. The booking process was seamless and easy to do, and I was impressed with their efficiency. Our trainer, Simon English, was knowledgeable and engaging. Having sold tutor lead, classroom based training myself for many years, I thought Simon did an outstanding job, as it’s far more difficult to keep delegates engaged while delivering training via an online platform rather than doing so in a physical environment. I would have no hesitation in using Envesca in the future for any of my, or my employees training needs·

Paul Marshall

The whole team at Envesca are very friendly and helpful. I did the Level 3 HACCP course via Zoom and passed the test with a Distinction, thanks to our amazing trainer, Mel Dixon. I am very grateful for the incredible service and highly recommend it. I will definitely use their services again!!

Marina Garcia Gonzalez

| Technical Manager |

Cool Chile Ltd