The Hampshire Food Festival (July 1st-31st)
The Hampshire Food Festival is a month long celebration of Hampshire's fabulous food and drink. It is held throughout the whole of July each year, with over 100 different events held at dozens of venues across Hampshire, here on the south coast of England. Over 155,000 visitors took part in the 2009 Hampshire Food Festival!
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Businesses and organisations interested in taking part in the 2010 Hampshire Food Festival in July are invited to download the relevant booking form to feature in 55,000 Festival programmes and on this website: Hampshire Fare member, commercial business (non Hampshire Fare), charity or not-for-profit organisation. The closing date for all entries and payment is 23rd February 2010.
Take part by organising an event or advertising in the hugely popular programme. Events are organised by individual venues/ organisations/ businesses in Hampshire and marketed under the umbrella of the Festival with the one criteria that they must include food or drink grown, produced or reared in Hampshire in some way. Sponsorship opportunities are also available via our Corporate Partner and Corporate Friend schemes.
If you are a Hampshire Fare member, rates to take part are heavily subsidised - if not already a member, it may benefit you to join - to qualify you must sell/serve/produce food or drink from Hampshire all year round. Hampshire Fare members can also run competitions in the programme/on this website, and book a place on the media workshop on April 14th (details sent with booking form or log in to training & courses section of members area for details). 
If you have any queries, please contact Sophie Boxall at Hampshire Fare on 01962 847098, sophie.boxall@hants.gov.uk.
Hampshire Food Festival visitors spent an estimated £3.1 million in 2009. Restaurants, hotels, pubs, wine bars, tea rooms, attractions, farms, country shows, town centres, shopping centres, producer markets, libraries, schools, conference centres, cookery schools, arts centres, vineyards, breweries, smokeries, shops, garden centres....these have all hosted Hampshire Food Festival events.
To give you a flavour of what goes on, the 2009 Hampshire Food Festival included workshops and master classes in making sausages, jam, chutney and chocolate as well as bee-keeping and growing your own veg; hands-on cookery classes for adults and children; a smokery demo and tastings; vineyard, vegetable, lavender, cheese, water buffalo and organic farm tours; orchard, brewery and kitchen garden walks; summer BBQs and jazz, Hampshire hog roasts, wine tasting and beer festivals; gourmet dinners, cream teas and local lunches. Hampshire chefs gave cookery demos at town centre festivals centred around Hampshire Farmers’ Markets in Alton, Winchester, Romsey and Southsea.
Here's what top chefs and food writers The Hairy Bikers, Rose Elliot, Atul Kochhar and Raymond Blanc had to say about this year's Hampshire Food Festival. Raymond Blanc gave his support by writing the foreword to the Festival programme.
Read more about the success of this year's Hampshire Food Festival in the evalution report highlights.
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