The Festival is organised by a group of volunteers who now make up the board of directors of a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee. All surpluses from the Festival are reinvested to stimulate further growth in the event and to promote its objectives.

But like all true community events, the festival would be unable to survive without enthusiastic and wholehearted support from many others - backing which is provided in a myriad of different ways.

A large number of sponsors, large and small, provide vital support to the Festival and it would be impossible to operate without them. If you value the Festival, please reciprocate by considering them when placing your business.

We particularly thank all the many volunteers who have helped before, during and after the Festival.

If you would like to offer sponsorship (which can be in financial or practical terms), or if you would like to volunteer your services, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Sponsors and supporters of the Food and Drink Festival include the following companies and organisations:

For the first year, The Telegraph is sponsoring Ludlow Food Festival. Plus, Telegraph subscribers can enjoy £2 off the Ludlow Food and Drink Festival on Friday, September 10, plus gain exclusive access to the Telegraph marquee, which will be serving free tea, coffee and refreshments all day.

There is also the chance to meet renowned cookery writers Xanthe Clay and Rose Prince, who will be on the demonstration stage, plus doing book signings exclusively for Telegraph subscribers.

• Telegraph & Sunday Telegraph
  
• dhjh, Accountants, Tenbury Wells & Bewdley
• Hobsons Brewery & Co Ltd, Cleobury Mortimer
  
• Radnor Hills Mineral Water Ltd, Heartsease, Knighton
• Ludlow Brewing Co, Ludlow
• Wye Valley Brewery, Hereford
• Mr & Mrs D Small
  
• Bart Spices Ltd
  
• Olive Magazine
• Homecare Ludlow
  
• Humberts, Ludlow
  
• Nock Deighton, Ludlow
  
• Ludlow Racecourse
  
• S C Price & Sons, Bakers, Ludlow
  
• De Grey's Cafe-Restaurant
  
• Corvedale Brewery, Sun Inn, Corfton, nr Ludlow
  
• The Visual Works
  
• Internet@TSP
  
• BBC Haymarket
  

Financial or other support has been received from the following organisations:

• The European Union, European Regional Development Fund
  
• Advantage West Midlands
  
• Shropshire Council
  
• Ludlow Town Council
  

We also wish to thank the following for their help:

• Farmers, Ludlow
  
• The ATC
  
• Taste Real Food UK
• Ludlow French and Italian Twinning Associations and their counterparts in La Ferté-Macé and S. Pietro in Cariano
  
• Cittaslow Ludlow
  
• The Friends of Whitcliffe Common
  
• Dinham Millennium Green
  
• Liz Sharples and Howard Lyons, Sheffield Hallam University
  
• Shropshire Hills AONB
  
• R & B Travel
  
• South Shropshire Journals
  
• Ludlow Advertiser
  
• BBC Radio Shropshire
  
  

And all our volunteers

Ludlow Castle is used by kind permission of the Trustees of Powis Estate.