In close partnership with North of Tyne Combined Authority and NBSL, we’re excited to be launching our Speaking From Experience programme in early 2021, featuring a jam-packed schedule of speakers, specialists and food entrepreneurs who will help you get your business back on its feet.

A new concept box from Local Heroes NE that champions the absolute best of North East food, drink and chef talent. It brings together the North East’s most accomplished chefs with the finest North East produce to give you a food box filled with delicious meals and produce.

We have some incredible food and drink stories across the North East, and a fantastic history of food heritage, identity, culture, innovation. To celebrate these stories, we launched GRUB Productions in June 2020, a specialist creative content division from Food and Drink North East.

On behalf of over 200 food and drink producers in the North East, we are asking councils in the North East to support outdoor community food and drink markets which are critical to grass roots economy.

COVID-19 has dramatically affected the food, drink and hospitality sectors with many businesses struggling to see what their future looks like post-pandemic. As they begin to open up after lockdown we believe the time is the right is to support these invaluable regional assets at a time when they are at their most vulnerable.

More than £1,000 worth of fresh produce has been donated to vulnerable families and individuals using a Tyneside-based food bank, thanks to a new initiative celebrating the North East’s food and drink heroes. The milk, butter and eggs from regional producers has been...

I guess that my first food memories are from visiting my Nana’s house in Elswick as a 4 – 5 year old in what must have been around 1960. It didn’t seem so at the time but when I reflect back now it’s clear that there wasn’t much money around; it was by no means a...

At the beginning of lockdown Food and Drink North East (FADNE) consulted hundreds of food and drink producers and merchants from across our region. Asking them how the COVID-19 crisis will impact their businesses. The results were startling, to say the least, with...