Tasty support for your food & drink business

Tasty support for your food & drink business

Want to find out about available funding?

Is your food certification scheme up to scratch?

Are you up to speed with how the new Food Information for Consumers Regulations (FICR) will affect your food & drink business?

Join this workshop and find out what you need to know and do in order to comply. Industry experts from the Manufacturing Advisory Service (MAS) and Safe and Local Supplier Approval (SALSA) have teamed up with Buckinghamshire Business First to support food & drinks businesses in Buckinghamshire with the ambition to grow.

Find out about funding, business support and legislation at this FREE workshop and we’ll throw in lunch and a tour of ARLA’s new £150m dairy in Aylesbury, the first zero carbon milk processing facility in the world.

Details

Date: Thursday, 12 June 2014
Registration: 09:30
Timings: 10:00 - 14:30
(Lunch and optional tour of ARLA included)
Cost: A FREE Workshop Open to SME Food & Drink Producers
Venue: ARLA, Aston Clinton
Eligibility: Strict no consultants policy

Agenda

09.30 - 10.00 Registration 10.00 - 10.15 Welcome & Introduction Heather Martin - Buckinghamshire Business First 10.15 - 11.00 The World of SME Food & Drink Richard Hallett - MAS Food & Drink Specialist market overview regulation & food labelling 2014 11.00 - 11.30 Business Model Canvas Graeme Laws - MAS Advisor 11.30 - 12.15 Introduction to SALSA Gill Palmer - SALSA Mentor Food Safety & HACCP 12.15 - 12.20 The LEADER Programme Nick Phillips - Programme Manager 12.20 - 13.00 Buffet Lunch 13.00 - 13.30 Preparing to Meet the Buyer Jonathan Chiu - Managing Director, Make Mine a Builders Ltd 13.30 - 14.00 MAS Funding Support for SMEs Richard Hallett / Graeme Laws - MAS Advisors 14.00 - 14.30 Round Up & Workshop Close Heather Martin - Buckinghamshire Business First 14.30 - 15.00 Refreshments & Networking or ARLA - plant tour (Optional)

If you have any queries please contact us on events@bbf.uk.com or telephone 01494 568 939.