visited College gardens. The college was home to the Royal Horticultural Society Regional Centre until 2019, and the site currently is the headquarters of the Alpine Garden Society. There is also a specialist animal unit. Pershore College was originally an independent institution founded in 1954 to train horticultural workers in the Vale of Evesham. It began offering higher education courses in 1993 and was merged into WCG in August 2007. Rugby College Rugby College of Further Education operated until 31 July 2003. It was dissolved by statutory instrument on 1 August 2003. The Rugby centre's new building opened in 2010. It houses the Power Academy, to train people in power generation manufacture. The centre also includes a Learning Resource Centre, sports hall and gym, astroturf pitch, meeting and conference facilities, purpose-built art, design and craft workshops, hair and beauty salons, theatre and college nursery. Warwick Trident College The Trident Business and Technology Centre in Warwick is a relatively new building. It houses a conference suite on the top floor with catering facilities. There is also a Learning Resource Centre with an open learning area and internet enabled PC's. There are also a number of computer suites for classes around the building. Many companies, including Alstom, Cable and Wireless, Jaguar Landrover, Rolls-Royce and Telent, send their apprentices to this centre. There is a large workshop area for the Motor Vehicle courses with vehicles donated by manufacturers for use by the college and students to repair and maintain. There is a traditional engineering workshop, equipped with lathes, milling machines and grinding machines. There is also a materials lab along with electrical/electronic and pneumatics labs. The courses studied here are mainly engineering and motor vehicle based. There is also a 3D design area which has facilities for model making. In 2015, Trident 2 opened, a specialist engineering building with workshops and labs tailored to the high demands of the colleges customers. Evesham College The Evesham campus has facilities including motor vehicle workshops, a hair & beauty training salon and energy training centre. It merged with Warwickshire College Group in August 2016 whilst part of South Worcestershire College and is now known as Evesham College, part of WCG. Malvern Hills College Malvern Hills College began as Malvern School of Art in 1886 and has continued this tradition since, being at the present site at the foot of the Malvern Hills in Great Malvern since