Our Sponsors
Thanks to their continued support our sponsors really do help make the festival what it is. Here’s a bit more about them…
Adnams is about relaxation and great experiences. Our pubs, hotels, Cellar & Kitchen stores all aim to provide that ‘ah, that’s better’ moment we all deserve. At Adnams our aim is to do things right; respect for our environment, our people and our community is at the heart of everything we do.
Rooted in our home of Southwold in Suffolk, we have always been proud to ‘do different’ and do it well. We brew great beer from the finest ingredients; have a number of Adnams Cellar & Kitchen Stores; own two popular hotels in Southwold and have a tied estate of 75 pubs throughout East Anglia and one in London.
Suffolk County Council is committed to supporting local food and is proud to be sponsoring the Aldeburgh Food and Drink Festival, 2010.
The County Council recognises the importance of agriculture, food and drink to the heritage and economic prosperity of the County.
We are committed to making Suffolk the Greenest County and the development of a Suffolk Local Food Distribution Network is a vital part of that ambition whilst supporting and expanding local food production and market opportunities.
We want to ensure that all residents and businesses such as hotels, caterers and shops have easy access to affordable, nutritious local food to support Suffolk becoming the Healthiest County by 2028.
The East of England Co-operative Society
The East of England Co-operative Society prides itself on being more than just a trading business. It has a strong commitment to social responsibility, and to making a difference to both Members and non-members in the communities across its trading area.
Family run flour millers W & H Marriage & Sons have been producing superior quality flour since 1824. As well as supplying independent bakeries and commercial customers, Marriage’s produce a popular home baking range of bread and cake flours. Marriage’s specialties include stoneground wholemeal bread making flours ground in the traditional slower way, using French millstones.
Marriage’s source wheat from East Anglian farmers and supply independent bakeries across Suffolk. Marriage’s are proud to sponsor the ‘Suffolk Baker of the Year’ category at the Suffolk Food and Drink Awards.
Marriage’s are keen to highlight the wonderful food on offer across Suffolk and to celebrate local producers, so are delighted to be sponsoring the 2010 Aldeburgh Food and Drink Festival.
Aspall, established 1728. All Aspall cyders are made from a complex blend of bothbitter-sweet and culinary apples fermented from 100% English apple juice, which gives them their exquisite taste profile. The cyder blends are based on the original recipes which have been handed down eight generations of the Chevallier Guild family since 1728. This means they have been tried and tested through the centuries, and the quality of the product has been consistently recognised through numerous awards.
Examples include:
Aspall Premier Cru was again named the World’s Best Cider for the second year running.
Aspall Organic Suffolk Cyder and Aspall Draught Suffolk Cyder both won awards at the Great Taste Awards 09.
Aspall won three awards at the East Anglia Food and Drinks Awards 09: Producer of the Year, Best
Suffolk Drink for Aspall Perronelle’s Blush and Best Suffolk Product for Aspall Organic Cyder.
Orwell Truck & VanAre the Mercedes-Benz and Mitsubishi Fuso Canter commercial vehicle dealer for East Anglia.
Telephone: 01473 618041
Anglia FactorsFor more than 40 years the Anglia Factors name has been synonymous with high quality fitted kitchens and custom fitted interiors in East Anglia, UK. We pride ourselves in the quality of our fitted kitchens and custom fitted interiors from design to manufacture, finishes to fittings, and installation to accessories.
Birketts LLPA long established and highly successful law firm with offices in Ipswich, Norwich and Cambridge. With 38 partners and a total staff in excess of 275, we are large enough to provide specialist skills in most areas of the law, but small enough to maintain a personal service.
Food Safari specialises in gourmet food experiences in Suffolk that go one or two steps beyond a traditional cookery school.
Food Safari events and workshops take you behind the scenes of some of Suffolk’s best food and drink producers combining farm walks, food forays and fishing trips with hands-on butchery classes and cookery workshops. Each day culminates in a feast, usually featuring the fruits of your day, whether that’s game, wild food or seafood.
On a Food Safari you will meet dedicated and inspiring producers like Pinneys of Orford (oysters and smoked fish), the Wild Meat Company (game), and Blythburgh Free Range Pork. You will hear the fascinating stories behind these products, see how they are produced, and even get your hands dirty skinning a rabbit, making sausages or making cheese.
For more information, see www.foodsafari.co.uk, email Polly Robinson on polly@foodsafari.co.uk or telephone 01728 621380.
The Suffolk Coast and Heaths Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty champions the landscape for those that live in, work in and visit the area. It is one of Britain’s finest landscapes, covers 150 square miles of the Suffolk coastal area, and includes wildlife-rich wetlands, ancient heaths, windswept shingle beaches and historic towns and villages.
We help conservation of the protected landscape, share expertise and provide advice; help people enjoy their recreation in a safe and responsible way; help local partnerships to care for the area and deliver practical improvements to enhance natural beauty; help and influence change to the landscape and its setting in a positive way, and manage projects that do this; help influence positive sustainable planning applications and development proposals that are likely to affect the AONB; and help local conservation by enhance local natural areas through grant giving.
Aldeburgh Food & Drink Festival are delighted to receive funding from The Sustainable Development Fund which supports projects that benefit the environment, economy and society without jeopardising the future use of resources.
Snape MaltingsSnape Maltings is a unique collection of shops, galleries and eateries housed in a collection of Victorian Malthouses alongside the River Alde. The Maltings plays an important role as a hub to promote local producers through its well loved monthly Farmers Markets and the annual Aldeburgh Food & Drink Festival. The river trips and river walks are a wonderful way to enjoy the estuary which is rich in both wildlife and history. Open daily from 10am. www.snapemaltings.co.uk
Thorpeness & Aldeburgh Hotels Ltd
Thorpeness and Aldeburgh Hotels is a small, successful, privately-owned group of five distinctive and individual properties. Our portfolio comprises the Brudenell Hotel and White Lion Hotel in Aldeburgh, Thorpeness Hotel, Golf and Country Club, The Swan Hotel in Lavenham and our most recent acquisition, The Crown Hotel in Woodbridge.
We feel very priviliged to operate in such an inspirational county, whose traditional values we hold dear. We are passionate about our Suffolk roots and feel very fortunate to have such a wealth of great food being produced from the amazing landscape that surrounds us and helps to bring customers to us from all over the country. We are conscious of our role in protecting our environment and, as much as possible, pursue policies that support local business, local communities and the the long term future of Suffolk. www.aldeburgh-breaks.co.uk.
Maple Farm Kelsale is a family-run organic farm on the beautiful Suffolk Coast. Our aim is to grow and sell produce locally: tasty organic vegetables from our market garden, fresh flour made from our organic cereals- grown and milled on the farm, free range organic eggs from our flocks of hens who live in our meadows, and honey from our woodland hives. We also sell our products in farm shops, independent stores and at farmers’ markets within a fifteen mile radius of the farm.
Find out more at www.maplefarmkelsale.co.uk
Aldeburgh Music is an internationally renowned performance centre with the nurturing of talent at its heart. The centrepiece of the Aldeburgh calendar is the Aldeburgh Festival in June, founded in 1948 by the composer Benjamin Britten, singer Peter Pears and writer Eric Crozier.
Aldeburgh today hosts a year-round programme of events including the Easter Festival, the Snape Proms every August, and a number of opportunities for artists at all stages of their careers that feed into the performance calendar. These include the UK’s most extensive training programme for young professional musicians, the Britten–Pears Young Artist Programme; Aldeburgh Young Musicians, for exceptionally talented 8–18 year olds; a long established, pioneering education programme with strong links to Suffolk schools; and Aldeburgh Residencies, a chance for artists to experiment, explore new ground and be inspired by this very special place.
SUPPORTING THE CONFERENCE: AN APPETITE FOR CHANGE
