Welbeck, Worksop · East Midlands
School of Artisan Food
Cookery school on the Welbeck Estate, Nottinghamshire, running short butchery, charcuterie, sausage and curing courses from one half-day up to six days.
£125 to £1,6259 courses
The UK directory of butchery courses
Learn butchery from the people who do it every day
Evening classes above butcher's shops, whole-animal days on farms, charcuterie weekends and the apprenticeship route. Every course here is listed with its price, its length and what you take home, checked against the provider's own page, with the date we looked.
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Every butchery course provider in the UK
Butcher's shops, cookery schools, farms, colleges and online courses, with the price range of what they teach. Search or filter above, or browse the lot.
London
The Ginger Pig
London butcher running evening and afternoon butchery classes at its Marylebone shop (8-10 Moxon St, W1U 4EW) and a Borough Market unit (Unit 7W, Cathedral Street, SE1 9AG). Each class includes a two-course meal with wine.
£195 to £2258 courses
Cirencester · South West
Jesse Smith and W.J. Castle
Cotswold butcher running scheduled masterclasses at Unit 13A, 19 Love Lane, Cirencester.
£85 to £1257 courses
Taplow/Bray area (near Burnham) · South East
Bray Cured
Charcuterie producer whose factory (Bray Cured HQ, about 5 minutes by taxi from Taplow or Burnham stations) runs half-day butchery and charcuterie courses. Courses are sold as gift cards and e-gift cards.
£120 to £1,7706 courses
Templecombe, near Wincanton · South West
Empire Farm
Working farm just south of Wincanton in Somerset running hands-on butchery and curing days, led by David Coldman. Bookings go through Eventbrite.
£145 to £2956 courses
Sparsholt, Winchester · South East
Sparsholt College
Land-based college near Winchester, Hampshire, offering part-time butchery workshops, Skills Bootcamps in butchery and a Level 2 Butcher apprenticeship.
Price on application6 courses
Nantwich, Cheshire · North West
Reaseheath College
Land-based college near Nantwich with an adult learners butchery programme and Level 2 butcher apprenticeships.
Price on application5 courses
Timsbury, near Bath · South West
Vale House Kitchen
Cookery school at Timsbury, about 8 miles south-west of Bath, running pig, game, venison and curing days.
£125 to £2255 courses
New Ferry, Wirral · North West
Edge and Son
Independent butcher on the Wirral (61 New Chester Road, New Ferry) running full-day small-group masterclasses. Also has shops at Brimstage (CH63 6JA) and Delifonseca, Liverpool (L3 4BN).
£150 to £1,4403 courses
Plumpton, East Sussex · South East
Plumpton College
Land-based college in East Sussex offering one-day butchery and sausage-making workshops and a Level 2 butchery apprenticeship.
Price on application3 courses
Stoke Climsland, Cornwall · South West
Duchy College (Butchery Academy)
Cornwall land-based college with a Butchery Academy at Stoke Climsland offering a Level 2 butcher apprenticeship and a Professional Seafood and Butchery Skills Bootcamp (Camborne).
Price on application2 courses
Hampstead, London · London
Hampstead Butcher and Providore
North London butcher (56 Rosslyn Hill; also West Hampstead and Muswell Hill shops) running two-hour evening butchery classes at the master butcher's table.
£175 to £1952 courses
Guides
Before you book
What a beginner's course covers
Carcass to cuts, knife handling, sausage making and what you carry home, from the providers' own course descriptions.
How to become a butcher
The Level 2 apprenticeship, college routes, what it pays and where the live vacancies are.
Deer and game butchery
Seasons, the hygiene rules for wild game, DSC1 and DSC2, and the courses that teach it.
Home butchery and the law
What you can do with your own animals, what needs approved premises, and when you become a food business.
Charcuterie and curing
Salt, nitrites, Listeria and the UK guidance, plus the courses that teach curing safely.
Gift vouchers
Which providers sell them, how long they last, and your rights if one expires.
How this directory works
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Every provider on this site has a page we read: the course title, the price, how long it runs, how many people are in the room and what you take home all come from that page, and each listing shows the date we checked it. Where a provider does not publish a price we say "on application" rather than guess.
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