Useful Links

Please find below a list of useful links to a range of organisations providing information and support to those involved in the food industry.

Our Member Producers

LFL Partners and Funders

Training

Local Food Campaigns and Resources

Government

Advisory Bodies and Food Links Organisations


Our Member producers

Blackbrook Traditional Meat
The finest quality Purebred Longhorn Beef, Suffolk and Jacob Lamb and Welsh Pork produced with passion!
www.blackbrook-longhorns.com

Brockleby's
Brockleby's Farm Shop for food with provenance. We are butchers, bakers and speciality retailers. Sausages, pies and ready-meals made with fresh, locally produced ingredients, including our famous Brockleby's Organic Melton Mowbray Pork Pie. Plus a huge range of regional and speciality foods.
www.brocklebys.co.uk

Chocolate Euphoria
Produces luxury hand crafted chocolates & confectionery using only the finest ingredients and traditional methods
www.chocolateuphoria.co.uk

Greenfield Lamb
Producers of the very best, tender and succulent forage-fed lamb and mutton. Our own sheepskin rugs also available.
E-mail: greenfieldlamb@btconnect.com
Tel: Martin on 07850 975 158

Just Soaps
Produce a range of hand-made natural soaps and body care products free from chemical additives and preservatives using the highest quality oils, butters and essential oils. 95 per cent of products are registered with the Vegan Society.
www.just-soaps.co.uk

Keythorpe Rare Breed Pork
Naturally slow reared traditional pigs producing succulent juicy bacon, pork and sausages on the Leicestershire / Rutland border.
www.Keythorpe.co.uk
www.localfoodshop.co.uk/vendors/Keythorpe

Manor Farm Fruits
One of Staffordshire's longest established PYO farms, with 12 acres of strawberries, raspberries, gooseberries, redcurrants, blackcurrants, loganberries and blackberries open to the public. Ready-picked fruit and other local produce on sale in our shop. (Open June - September)
www.manorfarmfruits.co.uk

Picks Organic Farm
Local organic farm selling home-produced Organic Dexter Beef, Organic Gloucester old spot pork, Organic grass-fed lambs, Organic Poultry, eggs and seasonal fresh fruit and vegetables.
www.picksorganic.co.uk/
e-mail: nicky@picksorganic.co.uk

Tunnel Brewery Limited
Top Quality Award Winning Real Ales available in bottles and casks. Gift boxes, own label beers, tours and brew days.
www.tunnelbrewery.co.uk

Tur Langton Beef, Lamb and Wool
Locally-produced beef and lamb in packs of mixed cuts ready for your freezer. Undyed natural wool from undipped sheep - in 50g hanks or 300g cones - brown or cream, 4 ply for machine or hand knitting.
Please contact Mary Weston, Carpenters House, Tur Langton, Leics LE8 0PJ. Tel: 01858 545226

Woodhouse Farm
Family Farm Butchery and Smokehouse. Bring you fantastic, proper home-made produce. Including: well-hung beef, Tamworth pork, pies etc.
www.woodhousefarm.co.uk

LFL Partners and Funders

Countryside Agency
www.countryside.gov.uk

East Midlands Development Agency
www.emda.org.uk/main/

East Midlands Food Festival
www.eastmidlandsfoodfestival.co.uk

Environ
www.environ.org.uk/

Esmee Fairbairn Foundation
www.esmeefairbairn.org.uk

Friends of the Earth
www.foe.org.uk

The Health Promotion Agency
www.healthpromotion.org.uk/

Hinckley & Bosworth Borough Council
www.hinckley-bosworth.gov.uk

Leicestershire County Council
www.leics.gov.uk

Leicestershire Learning & Skills Council
www.lsc.gov.uk/leicestershire

Leicestershire Rural Partnership
www.oakleaves.org.uk

National Farmers Union
www.nfu.org.uk

Sustain: The Alliance For Better Food & Farming www.sustainweb.org/index.asp

Leicester Transition
www.transitiontowns.org/Leicester

Training

BBC Online Learning
www.bbc.co.uk/webwise/learn/

Business in the Community
www.bitc.org.uk/eastmids

Business Link East Midlands
www.businesslink.gov.uk/eastmidlands

England's Food & Farming Partnership
www.effp.org.uk

Forward Farming
www.forwardfarming.org.uk/welcome.html

Learn Direct
www.learndirect.co.uk

Leicestershire Parish Councils
www.leicestershireparishcouncils.org

Leicestershire Villages
www.leicestershirevillages.com

UK Online
www.ukonlineforbusiness.gov.uk

Local Food Campaigns and Resources

www.localfood.org.uk/
If you are interested in local food, this site contains all you'll need. It has local food contacts across the country, local food events, information on training and you can sign up for an e-newsletter to keep informed.

www.eat-the-view.org.uk
Eat the view is an initiative that aims to help people make the links between the products they buy and the countryside they cherish. This site contains research, contacts and case studies about individual producers.

www.localfoodworks.org/
Local Food Works is run by the Soil Association and exists to foster sustainable local food systems through the development of local food networks.

www.hetb.org.uk
Specific tourism site providing facts and figures about the heart of England and the latest research taking place in tourism.

Government

Countryside Agency
www.countryside.gov.uk/

DEFRA
www.defra.gov.uk

Food Standards Agency
www.foodstandards.gov.uk/

Trading Standards Central
www.tradingstandards.gov.uk/

Advisory Bodies and Food Links Organisations

ADAS
www.adas.co.uk/home/

Devon Food Links
www.devonfoodlinks.org.uk

Dorset Food Links
www.dorsetfoodlinks.co.uk/

Gloucestershire Association of Farmers Markets
www.foodlinks.info/markets/

Leicestershire Food Links
www.leicestershirefoodlinks.org.uk

Somerset Food Links
www.somerset.foodlinks.org.uk/

The Food Initiatives Group
www.foodfig.org.uk

The National Farmers' Retail and Markets Association
www.farma.org.uk
www.farmersmarkets.net/

The South West Local Food Partnership
www.southwestfoodlinks.org.uk

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