Healthy Eating
Healthy Eating, Active living, Local Produce

Tasty food with a little extra 

Active Fakenham is developing new partnerships offering delicious locally produced food with a difference. Options include healthier and tasty alternatives which focus on using local, organic and wholemeal ingredients where possible. We believe a little change is better than no change.

How do we decide?
Healthy eating, Active living, Local Produce.
This is a small local community contribution to help out local producers, look at healthier options and share advice. We offer recommendations based on the personal views of some of the Active Fakenham community. This is not an official scientific project and we take no payment.  

Active Fakenham has worked with each provider, tested each product and discussed the ingredients for the products we endorse with our “badge”. We are also in touch with providers on a regular basis. The rest is up to you.

We have raised some funds which enables us to provide some packaging and publicity to a small number of producers to help them kick start some new products that fit with the project.

Packaging
We are using eco alternatives to plastic including biodegradable and/or compostable packaging wherever possible. Plastic pollution is explained here https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/habitats/plastic-pollution/ and here https://eia-international.org/what-can-you-do/take-action/reduce-your-plastic-footprint/ 

Case study 
Cakes and savouries with a difference
For example, we are working with Jean Seppings who has produced homemade cakes and savouries on Fakenham market for twelve years before moving to a delivery service. Jean’s excellent food is homemade, made to order, delivered locally. We have worked with Jean to produce a range of healthier alternatives which focus on wholemeal, organic and locally sourced ingredients that are tasty and come packed in sustainable, eco-friendly packaging. To contact Jean ring 07860 524768   

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Some Fakenham independent healthier food shops

Shopping in Fakenham

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNlDjlhtw-w&t=4s

The Larder

Family run since 1973. A wide range of quality wholefoods, vitamins, handmade soaps, cosmetics, essential oils and much more. 

Norwich Street.  https://www.facebook.com/TheLarder1973/


Benbow’s Fruit and Vegetables

Denise and Carol run the colourful Benbow’s fruit and vegetable shop in Norwich Street,  Upper Market. It has been a family business for twenty years.


Papworth’s award winning traditional Norfolk butchers

J & D Papworth Farms is a traditional Norfolk Butcher and Grazier, selling quality meats from their own Norfolk farm and retailing in their own top quality butchers shop.

Miller’s Walk, Fakenham, http://www.papworthbutchers.co.uk/fakenham-butchers-shop/ 

Mrs Temple’s cheeses

Cheeses handmade in north Norfolk using milk just minutes from their cows. They source products from local suppliers or producers wherever possible and their aim is for at least 75% of the range to come from within Norfolk. Available Fakenham Thursday market. https://www.sonofchristie.co.uk/ 


Additional Resources

Are you a local food provider and want to work with us and be part of the project?

 

We are keen to involve more people and businesses. We can offer support to a limited number of local businesses including some packaging and marketing. Contact us


What’s Included in a Year’s Membership?

• A listing in the 2020 Fakenham Town Guide as a community supporting business. 25,000 copies are distributed across Norfolk and beyond.

• We have entered an agreement with Archant who will be supporting Active Fakenham with £72,000 (including VAT) worth of print and digital support as well as editorial and other support. This was part of a successful bid to NNDC.

• Access to the new Fakenham Business Network Meetings we are setting up, which will meet six times over the year.

• Free entry to two seminars we will run probably on marketing and/or social media.

• Access to the new loyalty/discount scheme we are planning for 2019 in partnership with the EDP and Archant.

• A listing in an information file at the Fakenham Info Hub (Fakenham’s new tourist information centre) and a poster in the shop (max size A4).

• The opportunity to brief the staff in the Hub so they can discuss your product with potential customers. This will help with word of mouth.
• A listing on the new Fakenham Info website, fakenham.info, with online information about your business and links to your own website.

• Social media: there will be at least one tweet and one Facebook post from the Fakenham Info Hub about your business and we will retweet and share posts that we are tagged in. You can post to our Facebook page and we will generally share the post.

• Active Fakenham, in partnership with experts in the field, will occasionally be offering training sessions in subjects such as local marketing, using local media, and social media (e.g. Twitter and Facebook). You will be offered free or reduced-price entry to these sessions.
Please note that we will try to balance content and have limited resources and therefore may limit the posts we share.

For inclusion this year, we are asking for an administration charge of only £35 from commercial organisations and community groups are free (at the discretion of the Committee).

We hope this is of interest and look forward to hearing from you.

What’s Included in a Year’s Membership?

• A listing in the 2020 Fakenham Town Guide as a community supporting business. 25,000 copies are distributed across Norfolk and beyond.

• We have entered an agreement with Archant who will be supporting Active Fakenham with £72,000 (including VAT) worth of print and digital support as well as editorial and other support. This was part of a successful bid to NNDC.

• Access to the new Fakenham Business Network Meetings we are setting up, which will meet six times over the year.

• Free entry to two seminars we will run probably on marketing and/or social media.

• Access to the new loyalty/discount scheme we are planning for 2019 in partnership with the EDP and Archant.

• A listing in an information file at the Fakenham Info Hub (Fakenham’s new tourist information centre) and a poster in the shop (max size A4).

• The opportunity to brief the staff in the Hub so they can discuss your product with potential customers. This will help with word of mouth.

• A listing on the new Fakenham Info website, fakenham.info, with online information about your business and links to your own website.

• Social media: there will be at least one tweet and one Facebook post from the Fakenham Info Hub about your business and we will retweet and share posts that we are tagged in. You can post to our Facebook page and we will generally share the post.
• Active Fakenham, in partnership with experts in the field, will occasionally be offering training sessions in subjects such as local marketing, using local media, and social media (e.g. Twitter and Facebook). You will be offered free or reduced-price entry to these sessions.
Please note that we will try to balance content and have limited resources and therefore may limit the posts we share.

For inclusion this year, we are asking for an administration charge of only £35 from commercial organisations and community groups are free (at the discretion of the Committee).

We hope this is of interest and look forward to hearing from you.
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