Taste Tideswell

High Peak Radio Interview

admin — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:18:15 +0000

Taste Tideswell is recruiting for a new Head of Operations. Taste Tideswel’s chairman Pete Hawkins was interviewed on High Peak Radio about the projevct and the post.

You can hear the interview again - High Peak Radio Interview – Pete Hawkins.

admin — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:22:15 +0000

This year’s Food Festival on 5th May 2012 is beginning to take shape. We’ve already have had a number of stall holders booking their places and if you’re a producer or retailer then do contact Phil Walker at Tideswell Stores to book yours. This years Food Festival will take place throughout the village and involve as many of the local shops and pubs as we can.

The Tideswell School of Food will be running cooking demonstration throughout the day and John Hattersley from Hattersley Wines will be running a session on wine tasting, something that is bound to be popular.

We’re looking for a new Head of Operations

admin — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:57:33 +0000

Taste Tideswell and the Tideswell School of Food is looking for a new Head of Operations. We’re looking for an outstanding individual who can continue to innovate and make the Tideswell SChool of Food the best cookery school in the country. If you’d like an informal chat please call Juliet at The School of Food on 01298 871262. The job description is here – Head of Operations Job Description- Tideswell School of Food.

Taste Tideswell – One year on

admin — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 10:20:21 +0000

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

Chat to Tideswell

admin — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 09:44:53 +0000

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.

Taste Tideswell in Australia

admin — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 09:20:15 +0000

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.

admin — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 11:48:35 +0000

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.

Taste 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

Cookery Courses

admin — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 15:39:03 +0000

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

Back up and running

admin — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 17:09:39 +0000

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.

What a busy weekend!

paulh — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 15:59:29 +0000

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