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Improving standards
How do we

help you?

TRAINING ACCREDITATION & AWARDS

The BSA has been working with City & Guilds for over 14 years and our The BSA is an accreditation route to developing
professionally run Approved Centres have Accredited Trainers who standards & rewarding excellence.
are immersed in the hot beverages industry, which ensures you will
be trained to the highest level. The opportunity for cafés, mobile coffee shops,
restaurants to be Assessed and recognised by
Each UK BSA Centre offers the City & Guilds Level 2 VRQ Barista Skills the BSA.
Course (3 days) and alongside this they run the Associations
BSA Level 1 Barista Skills Course (1 day). As well, courses on The Beverage Standards Association serves and
Advanced Brewing and Latte Art are also available. represents our members interests by delivering,
developing and endorsing best practice in
Our partner for Greece and Cyprus is COTECO Consulting who have our industry through training, education and
a number of centres across the two countries and they offer the networking, to improve the standards and quality
following ‘Accredited’ qualifications: BSA Foundation Barista Skills, of products and service in the out-of-home hot
BSA Barista Skills Level 1 and Barista Skills Level 2 VRQ. beverage market.