Food

New website holds the key to ‘secret club’ of Wiltshire’s independent producers and experiences

The keys to a ‘secret club’ of Wiltshire producers and experiences are being handed to residents and tourists alike, in the form of a new discovery website. Local Uncovered gives visitors information about dozens of independent, small-scale producers, spanning a … Continue reading

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Event hears from company that shares its profits with customers

The CEO of a company that refunds its customers if it makes too much money addressed around 100 like-minded business owners in Birmingham last week. Ben Reid, chief executive of The Midcounties Co-operative, was the keynote speaker at a networking … Continue reading

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No added horse meat! Androulla shows you how to cook a better burger

A healthier eating regime in the new year doesn’t mean having to give up your favourite meals, according to Wiltshire cookery expert Androulla Derbyshire. And, in the wake of the horse meat burger scandal, home cooking means you know what … Continue reading

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Co-operative enterprises raise a glass to sustainable food production

Co-operative enterprises raised a glass to sustainable food production at a seminar in Birmingham. Cider pressed at a co-operatively-run orchard in Worcester was the toast of the seminar, where ethical coffee production was also celebrated. And the seminar heard how … Continue reading

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Community Giveaway celebrates Marlborough good causes

Marlborough’s grassroots community organisations and good causes were celebrated and rewarded at a special event thrown by new convenience store Budgens of Marlborough on Thursday, September 27. The store’s Community Giveaway saw £3,000 given away on the night with a … Continue reading

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Ethical businesses provide food for thought

Ethical businesses will be providing food for thought at a seminar in Birmingham next month. Members of three co-operatives involved in the production and selling of food and drink will be talking on the topic of food sourcing.

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Could Your Community Share?, seminar delegates asked

Village shop or pub at risk of closure? Want to establish an organic food or renewable energy business? Community shares could hold the answer to your finance issue. At a seminar about community shares in Gloucester last week, experts explained … Continue reading

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Community groups invited to bid for share of £6,000 giveaway

What would you do with £1,000? That’s the question being posed to community organisations in Marlborough, who are being invited to take part in an event billed as Dragon’s Den meets Britain’s Got Talent for a share of a £6,000 … Continue reading

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Classic Cars Driven accelerates away while Culinary Capers site sizzles

Regular readers of Secret Agent Marketing newsletters, blogs and social media posts may recall a post from waaaaaaay back on March 20 this year, about a client whom we helped launch a career as a professional writer. Matt Nichols is … Continue reading

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Fairtrade means getting more than peanuts for your peanuts

Peanut farmer Rosemary Kadzitche of the Mchinji Area Smallholder Farmers’ Association The real difference that a Fairtrade economy makes to the world’s poorest people was expressed by some of the beneficiaries of the movement at a conference in London this … Continue reading

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