Local Food

Promoting Local Food and Drink

Introduction
Local Food Buying & Supplying Event
Local Food Awards
Further Information

Introduction

The Mayor of Kirklees, Cllr Julie Stewart-Turner, has chosen as her theme for the year to promote local food production and the benefits of eating food grown close to home.

There will be a number of events and projects taking place during 2009 and 2010. The first event was a Local Food Buying & Supplying event that took place on Monday 2 November 2009.

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Local Food Buying & Supplying Event

The event took place on Monday 2 November at the Galpharm Stadium with 23 food and drink producers including Andrew Jones, Bolling Coffee, Coddy's Farm, Covent Garden and Yummy Yorkshire impressed local and national buyers with the quality and variety of their produce.

Approximately 80 buyers from catering companies, cafes, hotel chains, restaurants and a major supermarket came to sample the produce, talk to the producers and strike up business deals.

They were joined by specialist business support organisations including Delicouslyorkshire: Yorkshire Food Group, Yorkshire Forward Rural Development Fund and Design Futures, the Sheffield Hallam University's specialist food packaging design centre.

Visit the events news story for more information about the event.

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Local Food Awards

The awards ceremony for this year's Local Food Awards took place on Monday 22 March at Huddersfield Town Hall. Over 100 guests attended the ceremony hosted by The Mayor of Kirklees, Councillor Julie Stewart-Turner.

The winners included: Vanilla Bean, Coddy's Farm, Yummy Yorkshire, The Green Valley Grocer, Berry Brow Infant and Nursery School, Newsome High School, St Aidan's C of E First School, Reinwood Junior, Infant and Nursery School, Growing Newsome and Tim and Lynn Lindley.

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