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Sponsors 2007
The following partners and sponsors made Alnwick Food Festival 2007 possible. Alnwick Lions Club thanks them for their support. It would also like to thanks the sponsors from previous years:
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Alnwick Food Festival is run in conjunction with Northumbria Larder. This umbrella group for fine food and drink producers in the North East of England boasts more than 60 members. Its aim is to encourage, support and develop the aspirations of its members to produce the finest food and drink the region can offer. It was established after the foot-and-mouth outbreak in 2001, when the cancellation of most farmers' markets in the region left the producers with limited outlets and threatened their existence.
Northumbria Larder is funded by One NorthEast.
Contact Northumbria Larder at PO Box 137, Hexham, Northumberland NE47 6WZ
Tel: 0845 456 2340; fax: 0845 456 2341
email: enquiries@northumbria-larder.co.uk
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The Northumberland Gazette and its parent group, Northeast Press Ltd, has been the media partner since the inaugural Alnwick Food Festival in 2005. Other weekly titles in the same group include Morpeth Herald, Whitley Bay Guardian and News Post Leader. Daily titles are the Sunderland Echo, Shields Gazette and Hartlepool Mail.
Many of the pictures on this website have been taken by the Northumberland Gazette and we are grateful for the editor's permission to use them.
Contact Paul Larkin, Editor, Northumberland Gazette, 32 Bondgate Without, Alnwick, Northumberland NE66 1PN
Tel: 01665 602234
email: paul.larkin@northeast-press.co.uk
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Alnwick District Council has given its full backing to the Alnwick Food Festival, promising financial help and co-operation for the next three years, giving the festival a tremendous boost for the future.
Find out more about the work of Alnwick District Council via the web link above left, or write to Alnwick District Council, Allerburn House, Denwick Lane, Alnwick NE66 1YY
Tel: 01665 510505
email: customerservices@alnwick.gov.uk
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Leader+ in North Northumberland provides European funding for innovative, rural development schemes that have been initiated by the local community. A total of £1.76million has been secured for this. Leader+ will allocate funding until December 2006. The Local Action Group (LAG) has responsibility for the delivery of Leader+ in North Northumberland. This group is made up of individuals from community groups and statutory agencies in the area. Supporting the LAG are a full-time project manager and administrator, who can offer advice and support to community groups to take a project forward.
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Northumberland Tourism is a member of Tourism Network North East - a partnership involving One NorthEast Tourism and four Area Tourism Partnerships that is committed to providing a range of integrated services for visitors and tourism businesses. Its mission is to be 'the voice of tourism in Northumberland working on behalf of business and public agencies to promote the area and ensure visitors have the best possible experience'. It has produced the Visit Northumberland website.
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npower renewables is one of the UK’s leading renewable energy companies, dedicated to generating electricity using sustainable, environmentally-friendly resources. The company’s team at Barnard Castle, County Durham, is focussed on the development and construction of new renewable energy projects throughout the North of England, and is currently developing three onshore wind farm projects in Northumberland included the proposed Middlemoor Wind Farm near North Charlton, north of Alnwick. npower renewables develops and operates onshore and offshore wind farms, hydroelectric stations and co-firing biomass schemes throughout England, Scotland and Wales, and is supporting the further development of “new” renewable technologies such as wave and tidal. For further information about npower renewables and its work, visit www.npower-renewables.com or click on the logo to find out more about the Middlemoor Wind Farm proposal.
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sanofi-aventis is one of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies and number 1 in Europe. This means that throughout the world, it is working to do more, perform better and move faster in the field of health. It is committed to finding new compounds that bring hope and are essential to medical progress. It is equally committed to providing millions of patients with new, innovative and efficacious drugs to combat disease, to participate actively in making medicines accessible to the greatest number of people possible, and to ensure that the development of the Group is integrated into a strategy of strong, sustainable and profitable growth. sanofi aventis has a research facility in Alnwick.
For contact details, visit the sanofi aventis website.
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R. Turnbull & Sons is Alnwick's longest established independent family butcher and greengrocer and is one of the town's oldest businesses. The shop was founded by Roger Turnbull in 1880 and is now run by Mark Turnbull, his great-great-grandson. In the late 1970s a neighbouring drapery shop, Pitts, was acquired, allowing Turnbull's to double the size of the premises, and split between a butcher's and greengrocer's. Click on the logo to find out more.
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L. Robson & Sons Ltd. is a fourth generation family business specialising in the traditional method of oak smoking kippers and salmon. Situated in Craster, a small fishing village on the Northumberland coast near Alnwick, the company still cures the fish in the original smokehouses which are over 130 years old. Over the years Craster kippers have earned an enviable reputation as one of the finest kippers in Britain. This reputation has been enhanced by its endorsement on numerous television programmes and the approval of many of the country's top chefs. Click on the logo for more on the Craster Kipper.
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Proudlock House and Home, of Market Street, Alnwick, sells a large range of household and cookery equipment and gifts. Owner Geoff Proudlock will be sponsoring the festival's Young Chef of the Year competition and helping with the supply of cooking equipment for the kitchens being built in the Northumberland Hall and the Playhouse. Tel: 01665 602271
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Many thanks to Geoff Keenan, of Outlook, Alnwick, for supplying and constructing the kitchen which will be used in the Playhouse for the Young Chef of the Year competition.
Outlook Home Enhancement Centre is a fitted kitchen and bathroom supplier.
Telephone: 01665 603812
Address: 37 Bondgate Without, Alnwick, NE66 1PR
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The Co-operative Group operates more than 1,600 food stores, including two in Alnwick. Its primary focus is on meeting the top-up shopping needs of the whole community. It has developed two retail brands designed to meet the needs of towns, neighbourhoods and villages.The Welcome brand caters for the top-up and impulse shopping needs of passers by and local people, with its distinctive blue and yellow fascia; while the market town stores are situated in small towns, villages, or neighbourhoods. They provide top-up and main-trip shopping needs for customers who wish to shop quickly, easily and locally. Their blue and white fascia carry the identity of the specific town or village they serve reflecting their roots in the local community.
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| Thompson Opticians was established in 1984 and has now grown to over 20 branches making it the largest independent opticians in the North East. Throughout that time, it has been the company's mission to provide a high quality ophthalmic service to the public. To mark its 22nd anniversary, it has unveiled some special deals and offers (click on the logo, right). |
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Sponsors needed 
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| Alnwick Lions Club, the organiser of the Alnwick Food Festival, is still looking for sponsors for this prestigious and rapidly-growing event. Find out how you could benefit from the generous gold, silver and bronze sponsorship deals on offer, contact us. |
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