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A SUMMARY OF OUR 2006/2007/2008 ACTIVITIES 

Overview

The Food Club continues to increase its areas of activities and the Help Line has assisted with the sale and purchase of companies; staff vacancies; legal enquiries as well as the many requests for the sourcing  of a large range of food products and services. We continue to pass business leads to our Members, enabling them to increase their markets and enhance their businesses.

Our meetings are usually on the first Thursday in each month, from September to June, at The Tower Conference Suite in Wembley Park .  This is part of the College of North West London and their catering students prepare and serve our dinners.  They enjoy hosting us because this gives them exposure to real 'foodies' and we enjoy the excellence of their varied cuisine with a different food theme from around the World each month.

Our Objective

Our objective is to continue to offer increased assistance to our Members and widen our scope and range of technical help by calling upon our group of support consultants whose background and specialities has assisted many of our members during the year.  We are continually looking for new ways to increase and impart information for the benefit of our members and are always happy to receive constructive advice from our members. 

Networking at the meetings continues to prove beneficial and has resulted in increased business between the Members.  It is a very satisfactory situation when companies can increase both their business and their management skills by making their primary approach to fellow Members of The Food Club.  The buying power of our members is well in excess of £30 million and this is attracting the interest of more and more suppliers.

2007/2008 Meeting Topics  

2006/2007 Meeting Topics  

Sponsorship

We encourage this by either the sponsorship of our monthly meetings or our e-mailings.  We wish to thank Fusion for their help this year.  We also would like to thank Harrow in Business for their continued co-operation and support.

Our 2007/2008 Speakers

Our 2006/2007 Speakers

Attendance

The attendance at the monthly meetings has again increased this year and we are now averaging about 45 per meeting.

Management Committee

The Management Committee meets on a monthly basis throughout the year and have given much time and dedication to ensuring the continued growth of The Food Club.

The Food Club Support Team

Our team of food industry management consultants, several of whom work not only in the UK but also worldwide, has continued to provide expertise in Food Hygiene, Nutritional Labelling, HACCP, ISO 9000, BRC; Product & Process Development, Packaging Machinery and Design, Business Development, Advice regarding Trading Standard issues and other areas.  Many of them have also provided free assistance to The Food Club’s Telephone/e-mail Help Line.

Web Site

The Food Club web site at www.thefoodclub.org.uk lists Member’s details and has a live food sector news feed.  We also post on the site a map of the meetings venue, details of The Food Club Support Team and a summary of our year’s activities.  We have continued to develop links with more organisations and this has helped us to maintain our high position with the major Internet search engines. We receive, on average, 16,000 ‘hits’ per month.

Other Activities

In order to cope with the increased volume of work being handled by the Administration Office we have completely upgraded the technology giving us a much wider scope to deal with the enquiries and keeping us as the largest networking club in the food industry. We are continuing to foster our relationship with the IFST and our February meeting saw 25 of their student members attending.  We intend to continue with this initiative and also forge stronger links with the IFST, possibly with a joint meeting.  Our links with The College of North West London continue to increase.  Our web site is continuing to attract enquiries from many parts of the world and we are always looking to improve this. 

Last updated 2 September 2008