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Happerley Food Heaven Launches at Cotswold Races in 2018

  Launching in April 2018 at Andoversford Races, ours is a brand new format in event food halls. It will provide a shopping experience that celebrates the life of every ingredient sold, where the customer can be assured of the provenance of all food and drink. It will be exclusively populated by our member businesses, enabling an inexpensive platform to sell and engage, w...

2018 Strategy: Validating Provenance for Everyone

  This year has seen Happerley lay solid foundations enabling us to now move quickly to expand membership and deliver food passporting success through 2018 and beyond. As the latest Food & Drink Mintel report for 2018 headlines, the trend is on for consumers seeking full disclosure, and Happerley continues to lead the solution.   In 2017 we have: Secured our firs...

Happerley Investment Opportunity Released

  Happerley Limited, delivering a membership platform and blockchain based software to validate provenance for the benefit of the whole food industry, is releasing its first investment opportunity. Following successful field trials, the investment will support the two unique elements of Happerley.  Firstly, to fast track its membership growth. In 2018 it aims to have t...

Adam Henson Joins The Happerley Advisory Board

  Cotswold farmer, Adam Henson, has joined The Happerley Advisory Board, chaired by Peter Jinman OBE, to help guide and steer the Happerley scheme in validating provenance for the benefit of the whole food industry and its consumers. The Cotswold Farm Park aside, Adam (pictured above with Clfford Freeman from Happerley) runs a 650 hectare farm on which and his business pa...

Gloucester Rugby Club is first with Happerley food provenance catering

         Kingsholm, home of Gloucester Rugby Club is set to become the first sports venue anywhere in the UK to invest in an outdoor food unit from which all produce sold will be Happerley certified with 100% provenance. The partnership will also provide training to support the club’s community work which gives disadvantaged youngsters a chance to learn valuable ski...

Philip Ponsonby, CEO of Midcounties Co-operative, joins Happerley Advisory Board

It was announced this week that Philip Ponsonby, CEO of Midcounties Co-operative, has joined The Happerley Advisory Board, chaired by Peter Jinman OBE, to help guide and steer the Happerley scheme in validating provenance for the benefit of the whole food industry and its consumers. Philip Ponsonby also sits on the Co-operative’s Federal Retail and Trading Services b...

The Food Chain is a Dysfunctional Family, writes Matthew Rymer

Imagine the food chain as a family...   Imagine the grandparents as the consumer. They want to trust what they buy. They care about the pennies but also how their food is produced, and they expect honesty and truth. They tend to take food at face value, but are getting increasingly suspicious of what they are told.   They like their Son, they see him most of...

Leading food lawyer Sian Edmunds and Chris Crookall-Fallon of Co-op Futures join Happerley’s Advisory Board

Leading food, farming and agriculture lawyer, Sian Edmunds, is to join the Happerley Food Provenance Advisory Board along with Chris Crookall-Fallon of Co-op Futures. Sian is a partner in Bristol law firm Burges Salmon She heads their food and drink team and is an experienced member of the firm's food and farming, land and estates and contentious trust teams. Sian e...

First Happerley Provenance Heroes event overwhelming success

  Happerley held its inaugural Provenance Heroes event in aid of the Addington Fund on Wednesday September 20th. Over 150 guests from across farming, food, agriculture, education, retail and media joined the Happerley team at Willow Hill Farm in Apperley, Glos.   The event was generously sponsored by Midcounties Co-Op and Folk2Folk. Speakers included Peter Jinman OBE,...

Royal Agricultural University’s pledge to provenance with Happerley blazes bright trail for farming’s future

  21st September, 2017: The Royal Agricultural University is to become the first university in the UK to declare itself a Provenance Champion by publishing and certifying the provenance of their entire food supply chain through Happerley’s verification system.   Catering for 1,200 students and 200 staff on a daily basis, the award-winning* kitchens at the RAU are focus...