Six Bedford Borough schools have enhanced their technological teaching resources as a result of equipment donations by Wyboston Lakes conference and training centre. The centre has presented 'smart boards' to each of five schools, while a sixth school has received five 'printable white boards'.

Wyboston Lakes is the largest privately owned single site specialist conference and training venue in the United Kingdom. The boards that have been presented to the local schools were originally installed for a major series of training events at the venue. When the event concluded, the client organisation invited Wyboston Lakes to retain the equipment: however, it was surplus to the venue's needs.

Thee venue contacted the Bedford Borough Learning Exchange, a fully inclusive collaborative which engages with all the leading educationalists in the unitary authority. "BBLE invited submissions from local schools for a share of the equipment," explains Wyboston Lakes' National Sales Manager Ewart Munday: "We were very pleased that this process ensured that the equipment went to those with the greatest need."

With three separate centres on its 350 acre site between Cambridge and Bedford, more than 70 individual meeting rooms and more than 400 bedrooms, Wyboston Lakes has a massive spectrum of clients, ranging from FTSE Top 100 companies and government departments to local companies. To maintain its leading position, the venue invests continuously in the very latest equipment to optimise conferences and training events.

Mr Munday presented the equipment to the head teachers of the selected schools in an event at Wyboston Lakes last week. The schools were St Lawrence Lower School, St John Rigby Catholic Lower School, Queens Park Lower School, Westfield Middle School, Mark Rutherford Upper School & Community College, and Biddenham International School & Sports College.

The donation is the latest example of Wyboston Lakes' continuing involvement with the education sector. The venue regularly hosts visits by local schools - including special needs students - to view various aspects of its activity.

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The picture sent with this release shows Wyboston Lakes' Ewart Munday(extreme left)with head teachers from most of the schools to which equipment was presented. They are(left to right after Mr Munday)  Joy Luxford - St John Rigby Catholic Lower; Anne McCormick - Queens Park Lower; Steve Peacey - Mark Rutherford Upper School & Community College; Karen Jackson - Westfield Middle; and David Bailey - Biddenham International School & Sports College.

Wyboston Lakesis the UK's largest privately owned single site residential conference and training centre, centrally located on a 350 acre rural estate between Cambridge and Bedford, close to the A1 and M1 road networks, the newly dualled A421 and local railway links.

It has a large and diverse portfolio of customers in the UK and increasingly from overseas, ranging from FTSE Top 250 companies and government departments to SMEs, charities associations and not-for-profit organisations.  Since it opened in 1990, more than £35 million has been spent in developing the site as an award-winning provider for both day and residential events of all types. Uniquely on a single site, Wyboston Lakes has three distinct training and conference centres, offering a complete spectrum of options in terms of facility, space, style and budget.

Robinson Executive Conference Centre
Conference Suites at Wyboston Lakes Hotel
Willows Training Centre

Onsite leisure facilities are comprehensive, and include an 18 hole golf course, a full sports and leisure centre, and watersports facilities.

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