Derbyshire Projects

Graduate Employment Programme 
The Food and Drink Forum has teamed up with HotProspects, the East Midlands based Graduate Recruitment Service, to run a two-year project aimed at boosting skills in the food and drink sector. The project is currently offering subsidised or grant-funded recruitment, so if you’re considering hiring a graduate, even for just a short-term project, now might be a good time to look into the graduate pool available at HotProspects.

East Midlands Fine Foods 
East Midlands Fine Foods provides sales and marketing support to specialist food and drink firms in the region. It is one of a number of food groups which exist to support and help build the regional food and drink sector in the UK. 

Public Sector Food Procurement Initiative
Public Sector Food Procurement Initiative aims to boost the amount of business between suppliers and producers in the region and the public sector organisations like schools, universities, hospitals and councils.

Southglade Food Park
Southglade Food Park is a pioneering business park in Nottingham dedicated to the food and drink sector – offering a range of different-sized business units to suit firms at all stages of development. The Food & Drink Forum manages the on-site Business Centre that gives specialist support to firms both on and off the park, as well as providing a new product development kitchen, meeting rooms and other business facilities for hire.

Resource Efficiency
The Food & Drink Forum has teamed up with Food Processing Faraday to help firms save money by cutting the costs of waste disposal, and of energy and water bills.

Championing Innovation between Engineering and Food Sectors
The CHIEFS project - Championing Innovation in the Engineering and Food Sectors – aims to bring food producers and engineers together to help put the East Midlands food and drink sector at the cutting edge of new technology.

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