7 days to enter: Wellington Good Food Boost
Calling all early-stage food businesses serving up something healthy, fresh and sustainable from the Wellington region!
You have just one week left to enter the Good Food Boost! You could win free mentoring from top experts!
Would you like to get taste tips from top local chef Kelda Hains of Rita and formerly Nikau? Or discuss business smarts with Richard Shirtcliffe who has helped drive the success of Coffee Supreme and Tuatara Brewery? And there's more!
Four winning businesses will receive an eight week programme including four exclusive mentoring sessions. They will take part in a strategy session with the NZ Food Innovation Network's FOODBOWL or FOODPILOT project. And they will get a one-on-one business development session with the Wellington Regional Economic Development Agency (WREDA).
It's the perfect platform to make your food business fly. And it's all free to the Good Food Boost winners.
Mentors include:
• Kelda Hains, co-owner of
Rita and co-founder of Nikau café
• Matt West from
design company EightyOne
• Teva Stewart from
CommonSense Organics
• Richard Shirtcliffe formerly of
Coffee Supreme and Tuatara Brewery
Judging the
competition will be:
• Beth Brash from Visa Wellington
on a Plate
• Jo Madden from the NZ Food Innovation
Network
• Amy Bird Community Resilience Advisor from
WCC
• Matt Morrison from All Good Organics and Karma
Cola
Entries will be assessed on a range of
criteria, from taste to traceability.
We believe good food
should:
• Be legal, safe, healthy and
nutritious
• Contribute to local
economies
• Reduce 'waste' and
inefficiencies
• Protect water, soil and
biodiversity
• Be transparent about where it comes from
and how it is grown and cared for
• Recognise and
enhance cultural diets and food practices
So if you have
an early stage food business in the Greater Wellington
Region that hits one or more of those criteria, enter here now!
Entries close at 5pm on 21 August!
The Good Food Boost is brought to you by Wellington City Council and the Sustainable Business Network.
Previous winners have expressed how much the programme boosted their business:
Rebecca Stewart from Pomegranate Kitchen said: “The mentors brought great industry knowledge and really helped us in our thinking. The networks we have made and relationships built have been invaluable.”
Baker Gramercy said: “The Good Food Boost provided a great platform to link in with other like-minded individuals facing similar issues in growing their businesses. Drawing on the experiences and knowledge of mentors allowed me to develop strategy and build structure throughout our business. It provided the time and resource to focus on strategy, something we all found beneficial.”