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. Alternatively you can find out about becoming a Friend of the Food and Drink Festival.

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

• Tyrrells Potato Chips, Stretford Bridge, Leominster (Main Sponsor)
  
• dhjh, Accountants, Tenbury Wells & Bewdley
• Hobsons Brewery & Co Ltd, Cleobury Mortimer
  
• Radnor Hills Mineral Water Ltd, Heartsease, Knighton
  
• Wye Valley Brewery, Hereford
• Mr & Mrs D Small
  
• Bart Spices Ltd
  
• Ludlow Sausage Company
  
• Olive Magazine
• Homecare Ludlow
  
• Mills Whitcombe Ltd
  
• 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
  
• Townscape, Ludlow
  
• BBC Haymarket magazine
  

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

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

We also wish to thank the following for their help:

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