Hospitality Group Training WA

🏆🌟 School Partnership Award – Woodvale Secondary College 🌟🏆
Sponsored by Lilydale Free Range Chicken

We are thrilled to recognise Woodvale Secondary College as the recipient of HGT’s School Partnership Award! 👏

With an incredible 11-year partnership with HGT, Woodvale Secondary College has played an important role in supporting the next generation of hospitality professionals, delivering both Front of House and Kitchen qualifications and providing students with the skills, knowledge and confidence to thrive in our industry.

🍴 Taste of the Future
For many years, Woodvale Secondary College has generously provided the venue for HGT’s Taste of the Future, working alongside HGT to celebrate the excellence of aspiring chefs and inspire young people to explore and pursue careers in hospitality.

💙 A special shout-out to Jaqui Bruce
Jaqui’s commitment to her students and the wider community deserves special recognition. She continues to encourage both staff and students to get involved with No Limits, a local charity, through ongoing cooking sessions and providing meals for the organisation. Her dedication is a wonderful example of how hospitality skills can make a positive difference beyond the classroom.

Woodvale Secondary College provides a professional, supportive and engaging in-school program, ensuring students are well prepared with the skills, knowledge and confidence they need to take their next steps into the hospitality industry.

🌟 Congratulations to Woodvale Secondary College on this well-deserved recognition, and thank you for your continued partnership and commitment to our future hospitality professionals! 🌟

🏆🌟 MENTOR CHEF AWARD – WINNER 🌟🏆

Russell Lees – The Gate Bar & Bistro
Sponsored by ALH Hotels

The Mentor Chef Award celebrates those who go above and beyond to guide, support and inspire the next generation of chefs. 👨‍🍳✨

This year’s winner, Chef Russell Lees of The Gate Bar & Bistro, has demonstrated an outstanding commitment to nurturing and developing young talent throughout his career.

Russell was recognised for:

👏 Mentoring and supporting numerous apprentices throughout his career
📣 Maintaining an exceptional level of communication with HGT
👨‍🍳 Taking the time to teach and guide his apprentices properly, no matter how busy the kitchen is
💡 Turning mistakes into valuable learning opportunities
🌟 Encouraging his apprentices to continually improve and develop their skills

What truly sets Russell apart is that he genuinely cares about the people he mentors. He sees the potential in his apprentices, believes in them and encourages them to be the very best they can be.

Russell, congratulations on this well-deserved recognition! Your commitment to developing the next generation of chefs and the positive impact you have on your apprentices is truly appreciated. 👏👏

🌟 Congratulations Russell Lees – 2026 Mentor Chef Award Winner! 🌟

🌟🏆 CONGRATULATIONS TO HGT’S MOST OUTSTANDING APPRENTICES OF 2026! 🏆🌟

We are incredibly proud to recognise the outstanding commitment, dedication, skills and passion demonstrated by our apprentices throughout 2026. 👏

A huge congratulations to this year’s award recipients:

🎓 School-Based Apprentice – Runner Up
Lianna Mohsenin – White Horse Tavern

🏆 School-Based Apprentice – Winner
Charlie Hedley – Sporting Globe Rockingham / Garde

👨‍🍳 1st Year Apprentice – Runner Up
Zack Ditching – Gate Bar & Bistro

🏆 1st Year Apprentice – Winner
Lewis Wilkins – Emily Taylor’s Garde

👨‍🍳 2nd Year Apprentice – Runner Up
Petter Kettle – ALH Balmoral

🏆 2nd Year Apprentice – Winner
Sam Northcott – Ritz-Carlton

👨‍🍳 Final Year Apprentice – Runner Up
Louise Padilla – Pan Pacific

🏆 Final Year Apprentice – Winner
Chloe Dal Passo – Garde

🌟 Quiet Achiever Award
Austin Gentry – InterContinental Hotel

👑🏆 Most Outstanding Overall Apprentice
Ehlana Reubens

A huge congratulations to all our finalists, runners-up and winners! Your hard work, dedication and commitment to your apprenticeships and the hospitality industry is something to be incredibly proud of. 👏🌟

🙌 A HUGE THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS! 🙌

We would also like to extend our sincere thanks to all our wonderful sponsors who supported these awards with awards, prizes, food and beverages. Your generosity helped make this special evening possible and allowed us to celebrate the achievements of our apprentices in style! ❤️

Marsh | MEGT | Lilydale Free Range Chicken | AHA | ALH | RAC Arena / Venues West | Garde Hotel | Liquid Mix | Ocean Group | Bidfood | Classic Meats | PFD Food Services | B**r & Beef Club | Margaret Johnson | Tanja Coyne | Don Hancey | Get Fresh Merchants | Novotel Murray St

👏 Thank you for your continued support of HGT and for helping us celebrate the next generation of hospitality professionals!

🥂🌟 Congratulations once again to all our amazing apprentices!

🌟🏆 HGT ANNUAL AWARDS 2026 🏆🌟

What an incredible evening! 🎉

On 26 August 2026, we celebrated the HGT Annual Awards at RAC Arena, bringing together more than 170 guests from across the hospitality industry, including industry representatives, schools, parents, apprentices and employers.

It was a wonderful opportunity to come together and recognise the hard work, dedication, talent and achievements of our apprentices and trainees. 👏✨

🌟 A HUGE CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OF OUR FINALISTS! 🌟

Being named a finalist is an outstanding achievement, and we are incredibly proud of everyone who has been recognised. Your commitment and passion for the hospitality industry deserve to be celebrated! 👩‍🍳👨‍🍳🏆

But the excitement doesn’t stop here… 👀

🥁 Who will take home the awards?

Stay tuned as we reveal our Runners-Up and Winners! 🏆✨

✨🎓 Congratulations to our graduating Apprentices of 2025/2026 🎓✨

👏 A special thank you to Bidfood Australia for their generous support in presenting each graduate with a professional chef’s knife and certificate. Your contribution is greatly appreciated and helps make this achievement even more memorable for our graduates.

👨‍🍳👩‍🍳Here's to the next genearion of chefs!

HGT Awards 2026! A big thank you to all of our Apprentices, Employers and Mentors who attnded, what a fantastic night!

Champions in the Kitchen!

A huge congratulations to HGT Apprentices Sam Northcott and Bradley Austin for winning 1st Place at the Marriott Culinary Academy Black Box Challenge in Brisbane on 22 July.

We're incredibly proud of you both and look forward to seeing what comes next in their culinary careers.

Congratulations on a well-deserved win!

Congratulations to our South West Regional 2nd Year Apprentice Siena Simms for taking the Gold Medal in the ACF WA Apprentice of the Year Awards!! She will be heading to Melbourne next week to compete in the ACF Nationals. Well done Siena, and good luck next week!

The latest edition of The Workshop by HGT! Conducted at The Royal, this was a collaboration with the amazing Kylie Roberts from PorkStar. A great masterclass where we broke down a side of Black Berkshire Pork, and made 3 pork related dishes for apprentices, including a Pork Katsu slider with fresh truffles from Australian Truffle Traders, a smoked Kassler Pork Chop, and to finish our dessert "Ferrero Porkcher" with bacon ganache and crispy pig skin praline.

The Workshop | The PorkStar Edition | Hospitality Group Training We're at Fleur Restaurant at The Royal in Perth for the second edit...