Meet our Supporters

FareShare is the UK’s biggest charity fighting hunger and food waste.
They believe that good food should go to the people that need it, not waste.
By supporting FareShare you can help tackle food waste and hunger, and strengthen communities across the UK.

inkREADible have been supplying customised labels to customers across the world since 1980. Their success is based on their dedicated team who have the expertise in understanding the needs of their customers and the ability to translate their requirements into high quality labels to enhance their products and services.

National Craft Butchers are the butchery experts, supporting independent butchers, farm shops, and small abattoirs. They represent, promote and protect the best interests of their members – providing food safety advice, an accredited Primary Authority scheme, access to employment support, energy deal brokerage and much more.

Plumpton College is in the heart of the South Downs National Park, East Sussex. The College is one of only 13 independent land-based colleges nationally. Boasting excellent practical and demonstration facilities for students the college offers a broad specialist curriculum in 19 course areas including school-based programmes for 14 to 16-year-olds, and 16–19-year-olds. It also offers apprenticeships, including in butchery and bakery, and a range of degree subjects and diverse part time courses adults and its LandPro courses, which are industry qualifications for businesses in the sector.

The Institute of Meat (IoM) is a professional body for people from the meat industry and related fields of activity. IoM recognises the professional role members play in the industry and gives them recognition of their skills, knowledge and experience with the membership grade titles used in letters after their names (called post-nominals), as do other professions.

As well as encouraging and helping to fund education and training throughout the industry they play a valuable role as a forum for like-minded people to meet, exchange ideas and gain a wider appreciation of the meat industry.