A further update on Discover Delicious – It’s a Project was posted on 30th November. To summarise very briefly the 1st funding source is through Tourism Product Innovation Fund, value £150k, in Ceredigion and had to be completed in December 2020. Searching I then found the link I should have […]
I received this missive from Wag informing me that at BlasCymru/TasteWales 2023 there was a record high for Welsh food and drink businesses as confirmed and potential sales reached £38 million. The biennial event, which took place over two full days at the International Convention Centre (ICCW) in Newport, saw […]
Peter Fox MS, Welsh Conservative Shadow Finance Minister put questions to Labour’s Finance Minister in the Senedd yesterday. Following ‘question time’ Peter Fox commented: “The hospitality sector in Wales is crying out for support, but with Labour and their cooperation partners in Plaid, those calls are falling on deaf ears. […]
I sent a Freedom Of Information, FOI, question through, ATISN 19228 which was a request for information regarding Discover Delicious, DD. Ian and I had had a number of queries through about DD which we couldn’t answer, so hence this FOI. I refer to your email of 31 October 2023 requesting […]
Food Festival funding was a subject I posted about on 25th October, no surprise there as it has been a regular topic of mine that I’ve commented about for many, many years. I had asked if I could get the names of festivals that had been funded and those festivals […]
I am not at all surprised that Welsh farmers are up in arms following the comment made in the Senedd Chamber yesterday by the Labour MS, Member of the Senedd, for Mid and West Wales, Joyce Watson: “If we’re talking about a rethink, Minister, have you looked at any farms […]
Well it has taken quite a few emails to eventually get this list from Welsh Food & Drink. Sure you will find this of interest and perhaps it will help you understand how some festivals had a tough time trying to run and how many had to cut their costs. […]
It is a change and a pleasure to have a good news story to report to you, more so when it is about a market that is doing so well. St Dogmaels Local Produce Market has been running since 2009 and for me, one of the reasons this local produce […]
Food festival funding has always given organisers hassle. They have no idea each year what is happening as regards funding, in fact Wag F&D don’t appear to think food festival organisers should be kept in the loop. I feel that Wag F&D think they are doing organisers a favour offering […]
Further food festival funding was announced yesterday 29th June. I must say that it has not been easy to get information of food festival funding for 2023, in fact I am querying myself as to why I bothered at all. I am fully aware that I am not the only […]
Fiasco relating to this year’s food festival funding is the politest adjective I feel I am best using, there are many other adjectives that I think would also apply. I last posted on festivals funding on 16/5 when Cywain were seemingly belatedly tasked by Wag to run funding for festivals […]
More devastating news that Avara Foods has revealed a proposal to close the Abergavenny factory in Autumn 2023 putting 400 jobs at risk. Like all businesses it has faced significant inflationary pressure in fuel, commodities and labour since the Covid pandemic. The company say this has driven up pricing and really […]