Jan032012

Chat to Tideswell

By admin on January 3, 2012

Good morning Australia…  if you’d like to talk to Pete, Phil or Penny from Penny’s Pud’s we’re live on Facebook now.

Here’s the link direct to the School of Food’s Facebook page.

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Sep222011

Cookery Courses

By admin on September 22, 2011

To see the Cookery Courses on offer at The Tideswell School of Food please click the link.

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Jan032012

Taste Tideswell – One year on

By admin on January 3, 2012

Viewers to the Village SOS TV programme often ask us if the project is still running – the lasting impression seems to be that the Cookery School is on its last legs! Nothing could be further from the truth- the need to introduce a sense of “jeopardy” into the programme has obscured  the really great news of our success. (And a lot has happened since filming finished 8 months ago!)
We had a massive record sales month at Tideswell School of Food after the programme was broadcast in the UK in September, and beat figure that handsomely in December. Our customers are giving us great feedback and many are returning for second and third visits.  We estimate we’ve had more than 1,000 visitors and customers since we opened a year ago. We now employ 10 people, all but one from the village, and we are developing new cookery and brewing courses and corporate packages all the time. As far as the wider impact of the project is concerned, we know from our recent survey that 22% more villagers are shopping locally, and pretty much all the retailers in the Tideswell Made scheme report growing sales over the last year. One new food retailer and one new non-food retailer has opened and they are trading successfully. 2012 will be a challenging year from the whole economy, and we know we have more to do in areas like encouraging more community involvement from every part of the village, but we are feeling pretty good about the future here in Tideswell.
Take a look at our story below, and visit www.tideswellschooloffood.co.uk to learn more about our courses. if you’d like to read more about the thinking behind the project, our Village Champion, Tim Nicol has written a few articles on his blog at http://www.mihcentre.co.uk/blog/ .
You can follow us on Twitter @tideswellfood @tastetideswell and @nicoltim

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Jan032012

Taste Tideswell in Australia

By admin on January 3, 2012

The Village SOS programme featuring Taste Tideswell the the Tideswell School of Food is being broadcast in Australia. Going out on the LifeStyle TV Channel.  Pete, Phil and Penny from Penny’s Puds will be talking after the programme with Australian viewers on Facebook.

 

 

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Nov232011

By admin on November 23, 2011

WHY SHOULD WE SHOP LOCALLY?

 Save money– a round trip to Buxton costs about £3.00* plus parking

  • Support local businesses and local jobs
  • Save time
  • Save food miles and reduce carbon footprint
  • Eat better-locally made food is fresher
  • Where food is made on the premises or selected by people who serve you, you can be sure of its quality and origin
  • The Tideswell Made symbol makes it easy to tell what’s local
  • To save waste- supermarkets are designed to make you buy on impulse. Shop local and just get what you need.
  • To preserve our community – shopping is a social activity and the shops we use are essential to the village, especially for the elderly and those without transport
  • Value for money is often as good as the supermarkets.

You might be surprised by how keen some of the prices are in Tideswell. Don’t forget that a supermarket typically stocks around 30,000 items but often promotes only a fraction of those at a time. We are very lucky to have Tideswell Stores and the Co-Op that run keen promotions and supplement the ranges of the other specialist food shops in the village.

Shop LocalTaste Tideswell was set up to bring more trade to the village so that our local shops and cafes would survive and thrive. The School of Food and the publicity from the Village SOS TV programme has given trade a welcome boost. But around 1 in 3 villagers do less than 10% of their shopping locally. As winter arrives and we enter the slow season for tourism, villagers should support local shops- and not just when the snow falls. You’d miss them if they weren’t there.

SHOP LOCALLY, IT’S THE SMART THING TO DO

*based on 18 mile round trip @35mpg and fuel at £1.35/litre

 

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Sep162011

Back up and running

By admin on September 16, 2011

After a busy week, the Taste Tideswell website had a bit of a snooze today. Apologies for those who couldn’t get on earlier.  All working now.

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Sep112011

What a busy weekend!

By paulh on September 11, 2011

Thanks to all the people from far and wide who travelled to Tideswell this weekend to meet the faces behind the Village SOS TV programme.

Our very own “self-styled marketing man”, Tim, was on tour guide duty at the School of Food; Carol and her team at Tindalls baked throughout the weekend; the village pubs – Horse and Jockey, Star, Anchor and George served up countless meals; and the Cherry Tree, Peaches, and Vanilla Kitchen cafe were on hand to serve scrummy Tideswell Made food.  Litton Larder’s Penny’s Puds were flying off the shelves at the Peak District Dairy Shop and Chatsworth Farm Shop.

We had visitors from Devon, Sunderland, Lancashire, London, as well as people from slightly closer to home.  All were inspired with what they saw – a community coming together around food!

Wondering what all the fuss is about?  Why not watch the Village SOS episode here on i-Player:  http://t.co/x2x3C6p

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Sep092011

Where’s Carol?

By admin on September 9, 2011

Has anyone seen Carol?

Has anyone seen Carol?

We all react to fame in different ways and Carol from Tindalls, which featured in the BBC1 programme, decided to disguise herself.  Visitors to the shop yesterday were greeted with a long, blonde-haired Carol.  On her lapel was  badge exclaiming “I’m not Carol!”  That didn’t fool the hundreds of visitors to the shop though and the shop, along with the others in the village did a roaring trade.

 

 

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Sep082011

Tasting Tideswell

By admin on September 8, 2011

Scores of visitors to Tideswell today have resulted in some shops selling out!  Tindalls, who feature on last night’s BBC! Village SOS programme, have been baking all day (Carol is the one wearing the wig and dark glasses!) and the Cherry Tree, Tideswell’s newest food shop, have been running out too.  Visitors to the School of Food say that some of the pubs have run out of food too.

Penny Ward, of Litton Larder, the Queen of the Sticky Toffee Puds, has been busy making 150 STP’s in the School’s commercial kitchen and they’re flying out of the Peak Dairy shop.

We’re expecting similar numbers in the village tomorrow and over the weekend, so traders, stock up now and visitors, bring your pennies.

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Sep082011

Course bookings flooding in…

By admin on September 8, 2011

Online bookings, phone calls and personal visits a-plenty today at the Tideswell School of Food.  There are over 500 visits per hour to the school’s website, and the phones have been red hot all day.

Apologies to those who tried to log on last night, despite doing our level best, with the help of Vince and colleagues at Twentyhost, the sheer volume of hits were too much at times.  (For the technical amongst you, a normal server load is around one or two.  At six, the server is beginning to sweat, we had times last night when the server load hit 250!)

We’re open for tours (and sales of course) tomorrow and over the weekend, so do drop in and say hello.

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