How to Start Your Home Food Business - Newark Buttermarket - Adult Learning

The course will cover an introduction to food entrepreneurship, allowing you to identify various types of home-based food businesses.

We will explore writing a business plan, understanding legal and regulatory essentials such as food safety, labeling, and allergen compliance.

We will look at how to develop products and menus with attention to costing and packaging, building your brand and marketing strategy, to help make your home-based business a success!

Finally, we will identify how to manage finances, including budgeting and accounts, so that you are ready to launch your food business.

By the end of the course, you will be able to:

• Identify various types of home-based food businesses suitable for your skills and interests

• Develop a business plan for your chosen area, including legal compliance, product development and financial projections to assess viability

• Write an action plan to move the project forward if appropriate

What you will need to bring to the course:

• Paper and pen.

• Suggested reading for the course:

  1) Secret Tea Party by Kerstin Rodgers

  2) How to Run a Pop Restaurant by Abigail and William Alldis

If you receive certain benefits you will be offered the course for free, however if you have a financial barrier which may prevent you from enrolling on the course, please visit our funding page for further information.

Residency in England

To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must be living in England permanently and live outside of the devolved areas listed below or live within the East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA) devolved area (Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire).

• Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield 

• Cambridgeshire and Peterborough

• Greater London

• Greater Manchester

• Liverpool City Region

• Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland

• Tees Valley

• West of England

• West Midlands

• West Yorkshire

Residency Eligibility – other criteria

If you are living in the UK on a visa we will require evidence of this in order to be funded for the course, you can upload this evidence when you apply for the course. (completion of a questionnaire will be required).

Some exceptions may apply for example

• Your visa expiry date must be beyond the end of your course

• Asylum seekers must have lived in the UK for 6 months or longer while their claim is being considered by the Home Office

• You are receiving local authority support under section 23C or section 23CA of the Children Act 1989 or the Care Act 2014

Any learner who is not funded full cost fees would apply to these courses.