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Help is at hand! 22nd of April
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We hope you are all well this week. We just wanted to share some useful information and opportunities for you this week.
Wishing you the best of health, take care.
Team Grub Club
‘Business as usual’, it certainly is not! Join Vhari as she shares insights into new routes to market during these extraordinary times. From online listings to delivery boxes, let’s delve into who you can sell to now and how you can plan for the future. This webinar is great for producers, retailers and brands looking to grow sales.
To get involved register here
If you missed last nights cheese class with Charlie Turnbull, catch up on Youtube and be sure to tune in next week.
British Cheese Weekender, Early May Bank Holiday, 8-10 May
To celebrate the amazing range of cheeses made by small producers in the UK and to highlight the crisis they face The British Cheese Weekender will be taking place over the Early May Bank Holiday weekend (8-10 May). The three-day event will encourage the public to enjoy the country’s best cheeses with a series of free, online tastings by the country’s top cheese experts. Please visit here to find out more
An online Food & Drink Festival has been created so you can discover and buy epicurean delights for direct delivery to your own home.
They are also looking for more brands to get involved, so check it out.
The Food Marketing Experts Social Media Calendar is brimming with #SocialMediaDays, key foodie events and helpful tips to keep you relevant and your brand on track throughout the year.
Simply sign up below and download your copy now.
This Weeks Help is at Hand Newsletter
Hello
We hope you are all well this week. We have been sharing lots of your stories and enjoying seeing what wonderful work you are all doing. Thanks so much to you all for keeping us fed and watered.
We are working on the Velvet magazine Fathers Day feature, so please get in touch if you have any products you would like featured.
We have a number of new opportunities coming up so please stay in touch, we will share more news next week.
Wishing you the best of health, take care.
Team Grub Club
Why not take the opportunity to get your products some additional attention!
The Great British Food Awards are open now until the 22nd of June.
Fresh Montgomery is bringing a series of weekly webinars to you to share insight, guidance and support from the industry to the industry.
To register for these webinars visit here
We are delighted to see so many businesses being so agile during this chapter.
So if you are looking to enjoy a home dining experience check out this round-up of who is doing what near Cambridge.
At this time we are all looking for sites and information to learn from. This is a great resource for the whole family. Eat farm have created a wealth of content for us to share and enjoy.
During the current situation, cash is king. Hopefully, by now, all business owners have a cashflow forecast set out over the next 6 months, taking us up to September, when we hope business will be back to normal (a new normal).
Over the last week, all of you who employ people should have received notification of the information needed to claim back the cost of furloughing staff from the Government. The time is now to collect this information together, on a spreadsheet, and get ready for Monday 20th April. This date is important. It is the date that the government hub becomes available for you to put your claim in for repayment of furloughed individuals. It will be busy. Be persistent. The sooner you put in your claim, the quicker the money will be in your bank account. Remember – cash is king!
This weeks help is at hand!
Good afternoon
We hope you are all well. As promised in the last weeks we will email you weekly with information we believe will be of use to you in these extraordinary times. We want you to know you are not on your own, we are here championing you all.
Thank you so much to all of you who have been in touch. We love hearing your news, and telling the world how they can shop with you.
The May basket for Velvet magazine has been filled, so we are now working on Fathers Day and the month of June, so please get in touch.
We are busy chatting to our network to learn about new opportunities for you and will update you on these over the coming weeks.
Wishing you the best of health, take care.
Team Grub Club
Hider Foods and Delishops have joined forces to create a retailer online shopping solution for consumers, enabling independent retailers to continue serving their customers and most importantly earn revenue even if they are closed.
The bonus is you don’t have to do the orders! The team at Hider will despatch everything for you, while you earn 15% on every order. The range on offer will be extensive. They will all be lines Hider has on offer. They are looking for a wide range of new products to grow their offering.
So if you are looking to drive sales to your fabulous customer base with minimal hassle, please check out the new site here
The newly launched #HelpHub for foodservice businesses is up and running packed with advice and support.
A new £1.8m Accelerator and Venture Fund which will back ambitious food and drink challenger brands ready to help tackle childhood obesity.
Our Aim: To deliver market-led solutions to one of the biggest challenges facing the nation’s health.
Applications Open: 30th March 2020
To find out more click here
It is so important to be on a variety of platforms all helping to promote your business and products.
So why not sign up to be part of our
Big Barn page. The site traffic has gone mad in recent weeks and is now receiving over 20,000 hits a day! The site is proving so popular that many producers are receiving record numbers of orders.
We want to help
Good afternoon
We hope you are all well, as promised last week we will email you weekly with information we believe will be of use to you in these extraordinary times.
Thank you so much for all the emails we received asking for mentions and shout out on social media. Keep them coming as we are so keen to support you all.
We are working on the next two issues of Velvet Magazine shopping baskets, so please get in touch if you would like to be included.
Wishing you the best of health, take care.
Team Grub Club
It is so important to be on a variety of platforms all helping to promote your business and products.
So why not sign up to be part of our
Big Barn page.
Every month we search out three delicious products you can’t be without. We would love to hear from you if you have a product that would like to be seen by thousands of consumers.
Please drop us an email with your product details, RRP, where it is available from and then we can chat about a sample and what else we need.
If you have moved to online sales, please check out what WBC has on offer here they have a wide variety of protective packaging, perfect for shipping out your goodies.
You may wish to use some or all of these posters if appropriate for your business.
To access all the posters click here
A petition has been created to extend COVID-19 support to independent mobile catering businesses & the self-employed. To sign click here
Thanks to Howes Percival for all their COVID 19 advice
https://www.howespercival.com/coronavirus/
A Summer Evening at the Pinkster Distillery
We partied with amazing results……
Last weeks was a wonderful celebration of food, drink and sunshine. We enjoyed a warm summer evening sharing food news, stories and advice over a delicious Pinkster gin and tonic!
Brampton Mill’s Stylish Refurbishment
We were lucky enough to get a sneak preview of the stunning new refurbished at Brampton Mill. Not only that, we also got to sample the new seasonal menu. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it!
The refurbishment includes an extensive makeover of both the interior and exterior areas. The charm of the 500-year old pub has been retained with many of its original features, and of course, that eye-catching fully functioning mill wheel still takes pride of place. The new look is modern, stylish and contemporary, and has kept the same welcoming warmth, whether you’re visiting for a winter evening meal or a summer drink with friends.
Post-Event Round Up – Love Food, Love Networking
What a fantastic start to our networking year, with our first event at Provenance Kitchen’s new Brix & Mortar restaurant in Whittlesford. They only opened their doors on the 22nd of January, and it is not hard to see why they are already the talk of the town!
Putting Meal Boxes to the Test
With convenience on the rise, people have less time to spend in the kitchen cooking up nutritious meals. As a result, meal kits have grown dramatically over the last few years and are predicted to grow even further in 2019 as consumers become time poor, yet want to ensure they are eating well. Brands such as Hello Fresh have been in the market the longest, but we have recently seen the explosion of meal kits from other brands, with Waitrose launching their version in 2018. With this rising trend, we thought it was time to review some home delivery meal kits, ranging from meat, vegetable and vegan based meals. Read on to see which dishes really impressed.
Putting Jonny Wilkinson’s new No 1 Kombucha to the test
This week we were fortunate enough to have some refreshing new drinks land on our doorstep (thanks Jonny). No1 Kombucha is the innovative new soft drink range, founded by Jonny Wilkinson and recently launched exclusively in Sainsbury’s, making this well known healthy drink accessible to all.
Grub Club Cambridge on Tour in Bedford
