Conference Programme
Sunday 3rd April 2011
3.00 pm – 6.00 pm
Registration will be in the Student Lounge Bar, which is on the Residential side of Harper Adams University College.
Registration and tea/coffee on arrival.
7.00 pm for 7.30 pm
- Dinner (in the West Midlands Regional Food Academy).
‘When will Women Feed the Nation and Rule the World’.
Speaker
- Dawn Gibbins, MBE DBA (Hons) who appeared on the Secret Millionaire Programme on Channel 4 TV.
www.dawngibbins.com.
Monday 4th April 2011
7.00 am – 8.45 am – Breakfast in the Queen Mother Hall
The Conference will begin at 9.15 am in the West Midlands Regional Food Academy.
8.30 am – Registration for day delegates.
9.15 am – Conference opened and chaired by Helen Bower, WFU National President and welcome by Baroness Byford, WFU Patron.
9.30 am – ‘Farmers on Film, Feeding the Olympic Dream’ – a quick update since the National WFU AGM. Sarah Gayton, Taste of the Moorlands.
9.40 am – ‘School Meals with a Local Flavour’ Bill Campbell, Shropshire Council.
www.shropshire.gov.uk/schoolmeals
10.05 am – ‘Let’s get Cooking’ Deborah Robb, a National Lottery Initiative
10.45 am – ‘How Midland’s Counties are delivering a National Campaign’
Joy Blizzard, Shropshire Council, ‘Love Food, Hate Waste’.
11.10 am – Coffee
11.25 am – ‘Girls on Tour’ a tour of the West Midlands Regional Food Academy.
www.harper-adams.ac.uk/facilities/rfa.cfm
12.25 pm – Lunch and Welcome to the College from Dr David Llewellyn, Principal, Harper Adams University College.
1.25 pm – ‘Girls on Tour Again’ a visit to the Anaerobic Digester Unit.
www.harper-adams.ac.uk/sustainability/sustainable.cfm
2.35 pm – ‘A Bank that understands Sustainable Food’ Mark Ogden, Triodos Bank.
3.00 pm – Afternoon Tea
3.25 pm – ‘Is Animal Fat the Farmer’s Best Marketing Tool?’
Graham Harvey, Author, Freelance Journalist and Script Writer for BBC Radio 4 Archers Programme.
www.guardian.co.uk/profile/grahamharvey
3.50 pm – ‘How can Supermarkets guarantee that Local Food reaches the Consumer and ensures sustainability for British Farmers?’
Quentin Clark- Head of Sustainable and Ethical Sourcing for Waitrose.
4.15 pm – Conference Ends
Tuesday 5th April 2011
7.00 am – 8.45 am – Breakfast in the Queen Mother Hall
9.30 am – 11.30 am - ‘The Concept of Scientific Food Tasting’ Ralph Early, Director of the West Midlands Regional
Food Academy will explain and introduce the concept of scientific food tasting. Delegates will then be split into small groups and everyone will have an opportunity to pass their comments on sausage, biscuits, cakes and cheese.
www.harper-adams.ac.uk/facilities/rfa.cfm
11.30 am – Conference conclusion & Coffee
