Sorry for the late response, The Internet access is not the best here, but still we battle on...
Yesterday was a fantastic day and for once the sun was shining here during our trip to Malvern.
We started off with a fun energiser which helps shake the cobwebs off.
afterwards we split into groups and set about creating a business plan for the company's we visited on Tuesday. We were assigned the task of creating a plan for Pauline and Phill Goodwin from White Haywood Farm Restaurant.and the potential they had to maintain and expand the business as well as creating a contingency plan should one of the become seriously ill and are unable to work.
We then Presented our findings to Pauline in the afternoon and had a series of questions posed to us by Pauline.
We came up with some really innovative ideas Including utilising the potential historical Value of the restaurant (which went down a real treat) by incorporating a museum of vintage and historical artefacts. The presentation went well and the museum idea will be definitely be considered.
yesterday evening we also went for a walk on Malvern Hills. In the distance we took in the breathtaking lights of Malvern,Birmingham and Worcester. The hills have a famous connection with The Lord of the Rings Trilogy.
So far so good, The people on this trip have made it even more worthwhile and no doubt we will have some great Craic before the week is out.
Thursday 17 October 2013
Tuesday 15 October 2013
Tuesday 15/10/2013 Day 3
started this morning with a good old fashioned fry up and an energiser game to get the blood pumping.
excursions were planned to a number of farming enterprises around Herefordshire England (close to the boarder of Wales )
First stop was Hopes of Longtown. e met with proprietor Christina Hope.Hopes is an independent, family run village store and post office.located at the foot of the black mountains, it offers a wide range of speciality and regional produce for local residence and passing tourists. Christina gave good insight into the history of the store and the local demographic that use the store.
Next up we visited Whites Haywood Farm Restaurant.This is a licences farmhouse restaurant with accommodation run by Pauline and Philip Goodwin. The Restaurant is a 400 year old barn which has a homely ambience and is tastefully decorated with hand painted pictures from various local artists.
white Haywood farm is set on 190 acres and is the number one source of income for the Goodwin Family.They rear their own Beef and Sheep for use in their lunches, dinners and speciality dishes in the restaurant, after enjoying the goodwins fantastic hospitality and beautifully presented lunch we headed for our next port of call.
After lunch we made our way to lower Blakemere Farm in rural
Herefordshire and to the the farm of phill and Heather Gorringe and they enterprise called Wiggly Wigglers which supports self sufficiency and natural gardening through the mail order supply of some 900 products ranging from goats socks made in Herefordshire and English grow flower bouquets to the infamous can-o-worms composter. They have recently started another company called . The Great British Florist.
Tonight we are meeting The Young Farmers of Herefordshire and will be participating in various activities.
that's it from me for the moment.
excursions were planned to a number of farming enterprises around Herefordshire England (close to the boarder of Wales )
First stop was Hopes of Longtown. e met with proprietor Christina Hope.Hopes is an independent, family run village store and post office.located at the foot of the black mountains, it offers a wide range of speciality and regional produce for local residence and passing tourists. Christina gave good insight into the history of the store and the local demographic that use the store.
Next up we visited Whites Haywood Farm Restaurant.This is a licences farmhouse restaurant with accommodation run by Pauline and Philip Goodwin. The Restaurant is a 400 year old barn which has a homely ambience and is tastefully decorated with hand painted pictures from various local artists.
white Haywood farm is set on 190 acres and is the number one source of income for the Goodwin Family.They rear their own Beef and Sheep for use in their lunches, dinners and speciality dishes in the restaurant, after enjoying the goodwins fantastic hospitality and beautifully presented lunch we headed for our next port of call.
After lunch we made our way to lower Blakemere Farm in rural
Herefordshire and to the the farm of phill and Heather Gorringe and they enterprise called Wiggly Wigglers which supports self sufficiency and natural gardening through the mail order supply of some 900 products ranging from goats socks made in Herefordshire and English grow flower bouquets to the infamous can-o-worms composter. They have recently started another company called . The Great British Florist.
Tonight we are meeting The Young Farmers of Herefordshire and will be participating in various activities.
that's it from me for the moment.
Monday 14 October 2013
Hi guys, Enda Feighery here again reporting from a wet Malvern England representing our very own Macra Na Feirme.
fun packed day today and the weather is certainly not dampening any of our spirits on this the second day of the Rural youth autumn Seminar in Malvern England. Today started off with Learning about Business plans and creating successful Business plans, We were joined by Georgina and Simon Business Specialists from Nat West who offered brilliant insight into what should be included when developing a business plan for rural enterprises.
Today was also focused on entrepreneurs, in particular what characteristics and qualities that make good entrepreneurs, discussions also followed and each group researched personal profiles our team researched Anita Roddick founder of Body Shop which was very interesting. Body shop were one of the first company's to promote fair trade in third world countries not to mention they were one of the first companies to prohibit testing of ingredients on animals.
Lynsey Sweales from SocialB UK gave a talk on social media tips for building a rural enterprise and the main key areas including Search engine optimization. This is only my second Blog So i'm learning lots and not doing too bad... Thats all from Malvern for the moment. we are visiting local Business in the area in the morning so will touch base with you then.
fun packed day today and the weather is certainly not dampening any of our spirits on this the second day of the Rural youth autumn Seminar in Malvern England. Today started off with Learning about Business plans and creating successful Business plans, We were joined by Georgina and Simon Business Specialists from Nat West who offered brilliant insight into what should be included when developing a business plan for rural enterprises.
Today was also focused on entrepreneurs, in particular what characteristics and qualities that make good entrepreneurs, discussions also followed and each group researched personal profiles our team researched Anita Roddick founder of Body Shop which was very interesting. Body shop were one of the first company's to promote fair trade in third world countries not to mention they were one of the first companies to prohibit testing of ingredients on animals.
Lynsey Sweales from SocialB UK gave a talk on social media tips for building a rural enterprise and the main key areas including Search engine optimization. This is only my second Blog So i'm learning lots and not doing too bad... Thats all from Malvern for the moment. we are visiting local Business in the area in the morning so will touch base with you then.
Rural Youth Europe, Malvern,Englandhombase
hi all greetings from the rural youth seminar in a wet Malvern.
arrived on Saturday night on a flight from Dublin to Birmingham and a train to Malvern assisted all the way by Gareth one of the organisers.
Saturday night participated in some ice breaking games with 28 other participants from around Europe.
Sunday morning started bright and early with Breakfast and an Energiser session before heading in to do presentations on or organisations ( mine being the fantastic Macra Na Feirme in Ireland).
we also completed many activities including Quad pole a variety of challenges which stimulated our brains and tried our hand to archery.
later we had an international Banquet with the finest food and drink Europe has to offer, would definitely recommend the Akevitt from Norway,
arrived on Saturday night on a flight from Dublin to Birmingham and a train to Malvern assisted all the way by Gareth one of the organisers.
Saturday night participated in some ice breaking games with 28 other participants from around Europe.
Sunday morning started bright and early with Breakfast and an Energiser session before heading in to do presentations on or organisations ( mine being the fantastic Macra Na Feirme in Ireland).
we also completed many activities including Quad pole a variety of challenges which stimulated our brains and tried our hand to archery.
later we had an international Banquet with the finest food and drink Europe has to offer, would definitely recommend the Akevitt from Norway,
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