DAYLESFORD CELEBRATES 20 YEARS OF FARM SHOPPING

Daylesford Organic Farm Shop near Moreton-in-Marsh, one of the UK’s most luxurious and sustainable farms and food retailers, is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year.

Carole Bamford opened the first Daylesford Organic farmshop and café in 2002. The upmarket brand now has four further farm shops with cafés in London at Pimlico Road, Notting Hill, Marylebone and Brompton Cross in South Kensington.

Daylesford has always promoted the organic farming movement, with full organic certification from the Soil Association, and set the standard for what farm shops around the UK could aspire to.

It has launched a special anniversary range of 20 food and drink items in commemorative packaging alongside celebratory homeware pieces to mark the milestone. The collection represents some of Daylesford's most iconic products, some of which have been bestsellers over the past 20 years.

The Docks-based brewery has teamed up with Gloucester Sport in a three-year deal to back Gloucester City AFC and Gloucester City Queens women’s basketball team.

The deal will see a standing terrace being renamed and a newly-branded bar serving Gloucester Brewery beers. It will be named Container 4 after the brewery’s waterfront taproom Warehouse 4 at Gloucester Docks.

The brewery’s name will also feature on the Queens’ new shirts as they begin their second season in the Women’s British Basketball League.

Gloucester Brewery’s Managing Director Jared Brown said: “We have followed the impressive progress of the football club and Gloucester Sport and so we’re really pleased to be working with them.

“This partnership also fits with our sustainability goals to be doing as much business as we can in Gloucestershire and the surrounding area. By supplying pubs, sports clubs and other organisations locally, we can massively cut down on our beer miles which is much better for the environment.”

Chief Executive of Gloucester Sport, Jay Marriott, said: “It doesn’t get any more exciting than two local businesses working together. These things are often explored but it’s very rare that things align for it to happen.”