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The Food & Drink Wales Scale Up Conference 2025: Navigating Risks, Building Resilience centres on resilience and risk, with speakers and panellists delving into operational, financial, commercial, and supply chain challenges. Climate risks will feature as a key thread throughout these discussions. The Food & Drink Wales Scale Up Programme, funded by Welsh Government, helps food and drink manufacturers overcome the challenges to scale up. The team of Scale Up Advisors consist of senior food...

Location: Online (Google Meet) Date: 4/02/2025 Time: 9:30am - 12:00pm Delivered by Arthian Ltd. Food & Drink Skills Wales are offering a series of online workshops for food and drink manufacturing and processing businesses with a focus on decarbonisation and moving towards net zero. These will be delivered by Arthian Ltd. Workshop Overview This workshop will look at energy saving options, how to implement them and the risks and challenges to be aware of. Topics...

Identifying, understanding and mitigating risks are all on the menu at an upcoming conference for Welsh food and drink producers. The conference, hosted by the Food & Drink Wales Scale Up Programme, takes place on 6th February in Swansea, at Amgueddfa Cymru’s National Waterfront Museum. Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs, Huw Irranca-Davies commented, “Wales produces some of the best food in the world, and our producers have shown...

The Food & Drink Skills Wales | Sgiliau Bwyd a Diod Cymru programme has offered pupils from three schools in South Wales the opportunity to experience the culinary artistry of the food and drink world at the Welsh International Culinary Championship 2025, held at the International Convention Centre Wales (ICC), Newport. Students were given the opportunity to experience the buzz of the Welsh International Culinary Championship as the contestants battled their way through this major...

Location: Online (Google Meet) Date: 08/01/2025 Time: 9:30 am Sustainability Training for Food and Drink Companies This training course is proven to equip owners and managers from food and drink companies with the skills and know-how to build practical plans that respond to climate change and the nature crisis, and satisfy customer needs. As a result of new legislation coupled with significant market demand, buyers and consumers increasingly seek out products and brands with positive...

One of Wales' premier wine producers, White Castle Vineyard, has unveiled a new chapter in its history. For the first time the vineyard has harvested and processed its grapes onsite in a newly established winery using state-of-the-art equipment, paving the way for a future of increased wine production within Wales. The exciting development is the culmination of years of planning and investment in the latest technology, aimed at improving both the quality and quantity of...

A Cwmbran Artisan Patisserie aims to celebrate its 20th birthday by implementing a range of sustainable baking practices on their journey to a low-carbon future. Sustainability is a top priority of Sian and Ian Hindle who founded La Creme Patisserie in 2005. Now, with the duo’s children holding key positions within the company, the family business has committed to taking steps to reduce their company’s carbon emissions, with the aim to become a net zero...

The Wales Food and Drink Awards are back for 2025 and are now open for entries and nominations. Each year these national awards recognise and honour the outstanding contributions and achievements within the Welsh Food and Drink industry. As we enter our fourth year, we look forward to once again championing the success of Welsh food and drink producers, big and small from every corner of Wales. The awards reflect the diversity of this exciting...

Over 165 primary schools across Wales have been enjoying a new School Activity Ideas Pack created by the Welsh Government funded programme; Sgiliau Bwyd a Diod Cymru | Food & Drink Skills Wales. The pack, which encourages pupils to consider environmental factors affecting our food chains, was launched as part of Wales Climate Week (November 11 - 15). This year’s Wales Climate Week focused on the theme of “adaptation” in the context of climate change...

2 day course to be held at: Hensol Castle Distillery - 13th and 14th November 2024 In The Welsh Wind Distillery - 27th and 28th November 2024 Register HERE Delivered by The Mixing Class; the Food & Drink Skills Wales programme is hosting WSET Level 2 Spirits Training in collaboration with the Food & Drink Wales Drinks Cluster. Level 2 Spirits is a two-day course that looks closely at production methods of key spirit categories...