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.
