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New Forest Food & Drink Business Briefing
19 November @ 10:00 am - 2:30 pm
£5.00 – £39.00
The New Forest Business Partnership is committed to helping our local food and drink businesses to grow. Together with New Forest Marque, New Forest District Council, New Forest National Park Authority and Go New Forest, we support our local food and drink businesses through access to funding, identifying food-grade premises, developing key industry-specific skills, networking and learning from each other.
The Food and Drink sector depends on sustained financial and business support. This Food and Drink Business Briefing gives us the opportunity to discuss the climate in which food and drink businesses operate, the pressures you are up against and the support you need to succeed.
This briefing builds on the success of our last summit in 2020 and provides a chance to get all sorts of people around the table to discuss the future of the Food and Drink sector in the New Forest – from producers to public authorities, individuals to businesses – working together in partnership.
Together, we will celebrate the New Forest’s food and drink successes, discuss our vision for local food and drink, find out a little more about sustainable food and drink and, of course, spend time together, networking and learning from each other!
This event is open to all businesses in the New Forest. You are all welcome.
Discussion
We will be seated on round tables, each hosted by a facilitator to help us discuss 3 key questions:
1. What would a successful Food & Drink sector in the New Forest look like? What are our strengths and weaknesses?
2. How do we develop a successful Food & Drink sector in the New Forest? What needs to happen?
3. Who should be involved? Who should do what? What action is required in the short to long term?
Programme
1000 – Networking & Coffee/Tea
1100 – Welcome
1115 – Discussion and Highlights of New Forest Food & Drink Businesses
1300-1430 – Networking Lunch (booked separately for those who wish to stay on)
Sponsors
We are very grateful to Chewton Glen and to New Forest Shortbread for sponsoring this event for the local Food & Drink business community.
Hi, interested in the above event – do I need to buy the £5 & the Lunch ticket if I’m networking all day?
If you are just coming to the networking and the Food & Drink summit itself, then it is just the £5 ticket you need to book.
Lunch is an optional extra if you want to stay on and continue to network over lunch afterwards.