email: lesleyward@englishcheese.co.uk

Tel & Fax: 01483 275851
 

Lesley is the founder of the award winning delicatessen Horsham Cheese Shop in West Sussex. Since selling the shop in October 2000 Lesley has set up a new commercial advisory service, putting her many years of experience at the disposal of both established practitioners and newcomers in the fine food industry.

Training: As a registered trainer with the Royal Institute of Public Health Lesley teaches the Foundation Certificate in Food Hygiene to food handlers in Surrey and Sussex.
In addition to staff in food businesses, she has successfully taught the one day Foundation Certificate course to church groups, nursery nurses, young mothers, house parents and school helpers.
Individuals can attend her one day courses at
Cranleigh Arts Centre (one held each month) Groups can book her for an in-house course .
Lesley’s
‘Food Business Start –up’ courses at Guildford have been a great success. She has been asked by a number of individuals if she would convert them into an e-learning package.

Lesley also conducts cookery classes and moderates an on-line cookery forum, as well as providing a free forum for foodmaker advertising and networking in Southern England. 

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Consultancy: Lesley has acted as a judge at cheese and fine food events. She holds certificates in Cheesemaking and Cheese grading from Reaseheath College. She was made a Companion of the Guilde des Fromagers, Confrerie de Saint-Uguzon, France in 1982.

She has been invited to present tutorials covering cheeses of the South East at various food shows/events including The English Wine Festival, Henrietta Green’s Food Show, The British Cheese Festival and finds that there is great enthusiasm for fine flavoured , hand made British cheese..

Under Lesley’s ownership,
Horsham Cheese Shop was twice winner of the ‘Retail Cheese Awards’ sponsored by The Grocer and Dairy Crest.
With nineteen years experience of running a cheese business there is not much that Lesley does not know about the retailing of Cheese and Delicatessen products.

Anyone considering opening a Cheese shop or Delicatessen will find her help and expertise invaluable.
 

   


LESLEY WARD - Fine Food Consultant