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Not all events are created equal... ... but the Future of Food Competition set up by Barney😜 Mauleverer, Alice Hall and their extended team of helpers set a new benchmark this Tuesday 👏👏👏 This was the winning formula for the best event in ages 🏛️ Iconic venue at the Royal Geographical Society 👩🏫 Genuinely amazing keynote speakers that I would pay to listen to like Pen Hadow (Artic explorer) and Mike Berners-Lee (author of There's No Planet B) 👟 An efficient format which meant we had 50+ conversations all day and then a high pressure 1 MINUTE on stage (😱) 👨⚖️ Billy bigwig (super lovely) judges including Rebecca Oliver-Mooney, Adam Leyland, Fiona Fitzpatrick, and Jason Gibb 👯 Incredible founders who are doing great things like Jagir Mankodi 🥜 and Nirali Buch Mankodi from Superfoodio, Fergus O'Sullivan at NICE RICE and Amelia Christie-Miller at Bold Bean Co | B Corp™ 👑 Lots of the movers and shakers in the industry in one place 🏅 Genuinely useful prizes including £10k cheque (kerching), access to data from Kieran South at North Star and Miranda Ballard at NielsenIQ, advisory support from Angelos Panayiotou at WFL (Windfall Logistics Ltd) and a spot on Fiona's epic Brand Growth Heroes Mini MBA programme It was the cherry on the top to get silver (🥈) and be the runner-up to the hugely deserving winner Fergus O'Sullivan of Nice Rice (did you know that rice has the second highest carbon footprint of all food after beef 🤯?). Thank you so much to my brilliant partner for the day Flo Evans-Thomas who fielded all sorts of unexpected questions. And big love to Barney and the team for staging this event. It's a keeper 🙂#founderlife #challengerbrands #grocery

📣📣LinkedIn community... I need your help please🙏 We would LOVE to win a free advertising campaign and some money to make an ad from the Local Heroes AdSmart from Sky Fund. We want to get to 1000 votes and we're not far off. Please spare us 30 seconds to fill out the link in the comments below 👇 Team Seep (wrapped up in all of our warm gear today) will all be super grateful 💗💗💗 #challengerbrands #bcorpuk #community

I'm pushing myself out of my comfort zone this week. On Wednesday, I'm doing a TED-style talk at Kindred London founded by the fabulous Anna Anderson at an event called ID-8 (thank you Matthew Stafford for the nudge/shove 💗). 8 speakers, speaking for 8 minutes on an idea that could help change the world. I'm speaking about how switching a small thing like your washing-up sponge could be amplified to prevent billions of bits of microplastic from entering our kitchens and marine ecosystems. If you happen to be in West London and short of a plan, I'd love to see you there and I can promise a sponge sample and a great lineup of speakers. #founderstories #londonevents #tedtalksimpact

Today, it's a fun one... I want to celebrate the amazing Seep team and say a big thank you to Klaviyo and Pia Heilmann for hosting such a fun evening. We've had such a full on year and like many start ups, we don't celebrate nearly enough. So when we were shortlisted for a Klaviyo award (best welcome flow 🙌) and were invited to celebrate at a glitzy do, we decided to pull out all of the stops. We didn't win 😭(next year 🎯) But it didn't matter. Here is to the fabbest team (Jean Shaw Smith, Ali, Silvia Sigrist, Flo Evans-Thomas, Joana S., Kirstie de Vere, we missed you Elaine McCulloch and Mail Minks) and the best photo booth EVER. #teambuilding #emailmarketing #challengerbrands

We love partnering with innovative brands such as Seep who align with our values at FoodCycle, and are committed to supporting communities across the country to access nutritious food and social connection. 🌟   Earlier this year, Seep donated hundreds of their wonderful eco-cleaning products to FoodCycle’s Projects across the country. Our amazing volunteers have a lot (!) of washing up and clearing to do after our community meals, so it was an ideal opportunity to introduce an environmentally friendly alternative to support them with this.   We also welcomed Seep Founder Laura Harnett and members of her team, Silvia Sigrist and Joana Santos, to volunteer at our Fulham Court Project in London, where they created a fantastic three course menu for our guests, using good to eat surplus food which would have otherwise ended up in landfill. 🥕 🥦 🍏   Watch this space to see what’s in store for our partnership over the next year! Thank you so much Seep 🤩  

Better late than never. There have been many eloquent things said already about the amazing BUY WOMEN BUILT x Ocado Retail event last week but the 2 things that resonated for me were 🚸 Only 81% of 11-18 year olds can name a single female entrepreneur. For those with daughters, nieces, colleagues, mentees, pupils, grand-daughters, friends... you can't be what you can't see so we need to make female founders more visible 🛒 We can't all invest in women or mentor them but we can support them by buying their products (the quote of the day from Sahar Hashemi OBE). That's the logic behind Ocado's new Buy Women Built aisle where you can buy products from 130 founders. 🙏Thanks for pulling this off Amisha Mody and to all of the rest of the BWB team. Thanks also to Hannah Gibson and the Ocado team for your bravery in shining a light on us. 👯♀️A final thank you to the dozens of founders who I met last week including Josie Harfield, Laura Riches, Tina Warner-Keogh, Lulu O'Connor, Julie Chen, Rushina Shah. I got recommendations, tips, feedback, moral support and some game changing intros all in the space of 2 hours. Collaboration really is our superpower.