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Welcome to the Holmfirth Food and Drink Festival 2012

To get everyone in the festival mood there were lots of smaller fringe events in 2012. Local restaurants in Holmfirth offered tantalising tasting menus, a chance to meet the brewer, and an opportunity to taste some fantastic wines and local cheeses.

Holmfirth baker Greg Christofi judged a competition entered by local school children to find the perfect festival muffin.

Holmfirth Vineyard now has The Tasting Lounge which is a brand new purpose-built restaurant ideal for brunch, lunch, wine-tasting or even a great cup of local Holmfirth tea and Grumpy Mule coffee. Holmfirth Vineyard run tours every day at 11am (pre-booking is essential) or why not try a breakfast with locally-sourced produce from Coddy’s farm. To book call 01484 691 861

The festival programme boasted an impressive line-up of demonstrations and sampling sessions. Our chefs will also provided recipes so you can re-create the fantastic dishes demonstrated.

In addition to the 60-plus local and regional food and drink stalls, there was an arts and craft market running over the weekend too as well as street theatre, children’s workshops, German beer and pan house with swing grill, and live music. It was a jam-packed weekend for all the family.
 


Our Stallholders love the Holmfirth Food & Drink Festival!
Read their comments here...

"The event was a credit to your Department. Everyone enjoyed it, traders and visitors alike!.
There was a wide area of coverage. I spoke to visitors from Doncaster, Manchester, Harrogate etc.
Can you arrange such events for three or four times a year?"
Alexander
Gourmet Med
 


"Just wanted to say thank you very much for a superb weekend, my team and I really enjoyed coming along to the festival, and found it to be a great success.
We will definitely be coming again next year – so reserve us a stall please!"

Jane Jordon
Independent Sales Director for The Pampered Chef
 


"Thank you for letting us attend the event yesterday. It was very successful and we managed to speak to loads of people about our the Love Food Hate Waste campaign. Thanks again for yesterday."

Alison Lowe
Recycling Officer
 


"Maria, Just to say a big thank you to you, Claire, Pam, Chris and everyone on your team for a brilliant weekend.
My staff and I have loved every bit of the weekend and it is all down to hard work you all do to make it such a success.
The security team were brilliant and the car park remained a safe place for every one.
The stall holders were all great to the staff and was a pleasure to be around them all weekend.
I get involved in many things in Holmfirth, but, this festival is the best organised, enjoyed and loved by many and hundreds more.
Your commitment to ensure it works is a credit to you. I cannot praise and thank you enough!


Lynn Ford
Old Bridge Hotel
 


"Thank you so much to you & your excellent team for a job well done from all at Sharland's of Paddock.
What a superb event the Holmfirth Food & Drink Festival is, everyone who visited had a great time I'm certain, I know we did!
We'll be back again next year, keep up the good work & book the sunshine again please!"


Keith Sharland
Sharland's of Paddock


Propermaid 2010 HSBC start up regionalist finalist

ProperMaid is the result of a university course business feasibility project that came to life.

The company is the brainchild of Allison Whitmarsh, who, having conducted the market research and completed the study to meet her course requirements, realised she had stumbled on a realistic business opportunity.

Her research showed that, while people still preferred the flexibility of shopping in a supermarket, they also wanted access to locally sourced produce – a market sector that had grown by 30% in just one year. Recognising the potential of an expanding market, Allison launched ProperMaid, cooking cakes at home and distributing them through local farmers’ markets to gauge customer interest and develop a broader knowledge of the baking industry.

Allison has a passion for baking and has passed this on to her army of baking ‘maids’, along with her interest in producing new and innovative recipes. Her home baking ‘with a twist’ has resulted in taste treats such as chocolate chilli and fudge, chocolate and beetroot, and courgette and lime cakes. A dandelion and burdock cake, created in tribute to her home town of Huddersfield, won the award for best bakery product at last year’s Deliciously Yorkshire Awards, and will be followed soon by a liquorice cake in honour of the 250th birthday of Yorkshire’s favourite sweets, Pontefract Cakes.

Aware that their local focus is a key part of their customer appeal, ProperMaid have so far targeted businesses within a 50 mile radius, including nine Asda stores.

As demand for their products continues to increase, they are planning to expand their premises to support the production of single portion retail packs and are developing contacts with other local suppliers to help increase sales. Discussions are under way with Morrisons, Booths, Tesco and Selfridges, while by 2011 ProperMaid and its army of maids plan to be looking into the potential of international sales, taking their ‘posh cakes from Yorkshire’ much further from home.

www.propermaid.co.uk

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