Restaurants & hotels, a shop window for your products
If you don’t have retail premises or want to focus more on production or processing, the hospitality sector could be the ideal shop window for your produce. More and more hotels, pubs and restaurants are interested in using good quality, local produce. Featuring on local menus brings your products to a wider audience and can help your direct sales.
We work closely with employers in South West Wales, helping our participants move into sustainable employment. ‘Supporting employers to support local people’ Workways can help your business by:
Looking at your specific recruitment needs
Job Match your requirements against our pool of job ready participants
Organise and assist with the interview process
Arrange work trials and taster days to help identify suitable candidates
Possibilities of job related training for Workways participants
New pledge to support local producers launched at National Eisteddfod to buy their food direct and local. Endorsed by a number of leading organisations from the Merched y Wawr to Riverside Market Association, the pledge calls on families and individuals, wherever possible, to buy their food directly from the producer
If you’re involved in food tourism in South West Wales then Ffres is for you. This website is designed to bring all those involved in the burgeoning food tourism sector in our region closer together. You may be a hospitality provider - perhaps a restaurant, cafe, hotel, B&B, pub, or a takeaway. Alternatively, you may be a delicatessen, a farm shop, a wholesaler or maybe you are one of the ever-growing band of producers supplying the quality raw materials that are making the food offering of our region so distinctive.
Ffres is a place we can come to find about each other, establish better links, learn what’s going on in terms of promotions and events. It’s a place to find other businesses with similar experiences that can offer mutual support and advice.
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It’s a place where we can strengthen the links in our regional food chain by putting people in touch and finding new and innovative ways to do business together. Use our directory, take part in our forums, tap into our news and keep abreast of activities using our calendar of events.
Ffres exists to help us all strengthen and improve our businesses and therefore developing the offering of the region as a whole – and we all stand to gain from that.
If this website is for you and you are keen to get involved then please register now, registration is quite painless and completely free. You will be asked a number of questions but only a few are compulsory, once these are completed and sent off to us you will receive a confirmation email to verify your email address. Click on the link in the email and you are registered. We will need a short time to verify your registration and authorise it, this just allows us to filter out any bogus registrations and keep the membership relevant and we will get around to this asap, usually the same day.
During registration you will notice an abundance of fields asking you about yourself and your business, this information makes up "Your Profile" which once you are logged in is updatable by you whenever you care to alter it. We would encourage you to fill this in as much as you possibly can, bear in mind that this information is going to be read by others in the community who may be in the market for your products and services. The more thorough these details are and the more focused they are on your potential audience the more likely you are of meeting the right people.
If you haven't experienced forums before then this is where 'the community' bit gets interesting, people post topics for discussion (or new threads) and others are invited to post comments on these threads. These threads can be discussions, requests, announcements, or just friendly banter but everyone is asked to keep these discussions congenial and polite. We are hoping that the discourse on the forums will develop into revealing and mutually beneficial discoveries about the food tourism in South West Wales. To get the ball rolling please introduce yourself in the relevant "Introductions" area.
The site is built with a comprehensive navigation system, letting you see all the contents from a couple of menus, but we also have a few other ways of finding what you want as quickly as you want to. If the use the search function in the right hand column your submitted search phrase will be compared with ALL our written pages, Articles, Members' Products & Services, Links and Categories. There is also a separate search within the Members List and on the Forum, to make your searches as focused as we possibly can. And if all that is not enough, there is even a 'Members Map' which shows where members businesses are based, together with links to help you get there.
You may also notice the 'Events Calendar', this feature is designed to hold all the events related to food & tourism in South West Wales, we may even add events from further afield if they are relevant to members. You can view the calendar, by day, week, month even year. If there is a date highlighted on the mini calendar in the Navigation Menu this means there is an event on that day, just give it a click to found out more. If you would like to add an event of your own, be it an open day or product launch feel free to do so - if there isn't a section which you feel is relevant, let us know and we will add one.
Restaurants & hotels, a shop window for your products
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