The West Midlands Regional Food Academy (RFA) exists to support the West Midlands region’s food industry. It has two main functions. Firstly, to provide technical and business support to food and drink businesses in the West Midlands and particularly those in the SME sector. Secondly, to work with schools, and further and higher education institutions in the region, to raise awareness and understanding of food and the food industry, and the careers that the industry offers.

If you are a Food Business Owner or Manager wanting to develop your business, a manager or technologist in a food business with a problem that needs solving, or a Technology Teacher who requires support for food related lesson development or CPD, this website will introduce you to the RFA, what we do, and our products and services.

The West Midlands Regional Food Academy operates from Harper Adams University College’s campus in Shropshire and other locations in the West Midlands region. It is run as a partnership between: Advantage West Midlands; Harper Adams University College; Campden BRI; Heart of England Fine Foods; International Agri-Technology Centre; Reaseheath College; Shropshire Food Enterprise Centre; Telford College of Arts and Technology; Transforming Telford; University College Birmingham; Walford and North Shropshire College.

The fundamental aim of the West Midlands Regional Food Academy and its partners is to assist regional food businesses to develop and grow, thus to contribute to the economic prosperity of the West Midlands region. The West Midlands Regional Food Academy head quarters building will be open from October 2009.

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