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e are always proud to hear about new projects and community initiatives that our members are doing. This has never been more apparent than now, with businesses really getting involved in helping those around them. We were blown away when we heard about the work that Premier Contract Supplies (PCS) has been doing, both for their local community in Brighton, and a community further afield, in Bangladesh. As anyone who attended our Gala Ball in 2018 will know, Vince and PCS have been managing a house run to help homeless men and ex-offenders off the streets and into housing and employment, teaching new vocational and life skills. The house currently has four residents, and a total of
15 men have passed through and are now living independently with jobs. This year, we also found out about the work they are doing with World Vision, a charity that works to protect the future of children. They are part of an incredible scheme that comprises EU countries and philanthropists. For PCS, not only do they donate money from their profits, they also have a salary sacrifice scheme. 10% of their staff are currently enrolled, and PCS matches whatever someone donates. In addition, whatever a business donates is matched 33 times over by the EU! This means that if PCS donated £20,000, it becomes £660,000 that goes to support some of the most vulnerable children on the planet. The people being supported by this scheme face low nutrition and food scarcity, low and erratic income and natural disasters including flooding, which damages crops. In the initial 18 months of this project, among other incredible results, training was provided to 650 frontline health workers, 15,000 farmers and 120 teachers.
Well done to PCS, and all our other members making a difference!
he original Spring Oven is an award-winning terracotta pot designed in Britain with a unique water channel for a good crust. Handmade in Portugal using slip-casting, each Spring Oven is made to a very high standard using high-fired, locally sourced terracotta and is suitable for a 500g round boule. When developing the Spring Oven, the designer, Patrick Kendal realised that after lovingly creating the best bread dough, people were being let down by the limitations of home ovens. They were losing the unique characteristics and flavours of a perfect crust created in a traditional bread oven with steam. Steaming in a normal home oven is difficult. Many recipe books suggest adding pots of water to create steam while baking, however this means you can’t cover the bread, which leads to other difficulties.
So Patrick developed the Spring Oven in response – an enclosed cooking vessel that has an inbuilt channel for water! Following a successful Kickstarter campaign, the product was bought to the attention of Vince Caldicott who invested and helped bring it to market. Simply fill the water channel, put in your dough, add the lid and put in the oven for a perfect loaf!
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