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Access Hospitality

Albion Fine Foods

Appetite 4 Recruitment

Asahi

Audio Visual Events

Avani Solutions

AVJ Design

Barclays

Bee Hospitality

Beillevaire

Bidfood

Big Hug Brewing

Blacklock

Boulangerie de Paris

Brakes

CAPCO

Cardinal Creative

Carlsberg Britvic

Caterer.com

Coca Cola

CoolHurst Vineyards

Craft Union Pub Company

Crisis

Cue Media

David Lowrie Fish Merchants

Day Studio

Dennys Brands

DOJO

Epiris

Evolv Collection

F1 Arcade

Faber

Fitzbillies

Fleet Street

Flow Training

Google

Graduate Hotel

Greene King

Happy Endings

Hilton

HIT Training

Hospitality Jobs UK

Hospitality Rewards

JKS

Kale & Damson

Kam Media

Kingfisher

Liberty Wines

Lina Stores

London Freemasons

Los Mochis

Lucky Saint

Manchester Hospitality Network

Merlin Entertainment

Milestone Recruitment

Mission Mars

Muse by Tom Aikens

Ocado

Parkdean Resorts

Parkdean Resorts is the leading operator of holiday parks in the UK, welcoming in excess of 3.5 million holidaymakers each year. The company owns and operates 66 award-winning holiday parks, and has an unrepeatable freehold property footprint with 3,500 acres of land including forests, peatbogs, rivers, beaches and headlands in some of the UK’s finest beauty spots. Parkdean Resorts is committed to caring for its parks, people, and planet to create a positive environmental impact on nature and resources, and to acting responsibly for the long-term sustainability of the business.

The 33,000 pitches include a wide range of accommodation options, from static caravans to luxury lodges and glamping, as well as touring and camping pitches. There are 20,000 holiday home owners, and the business sells over 600,000 holidays a year, mainly to families.

The team’s commitment to creating amazing experiences for holidaymakers has earned at least one British Travel Award every year since 2010, most recently winning three gold awards for Best UK Family Holiday Company, Best UK Holiday Parks and Lodges Company, and Best UK Breaks Holidays at the 2022 Awards. Parkdean Resorts continues to record excellent visitor reviews with 2023 year-to-date feedback scores of 4.2/5 on Google, 4.0/5 on Facebook and 4.3/5 on TripAdvisor, while 82% of people who visited Parkdean would recommend.

Peach 20/20

Pizza Pilgrims

Polaris Elements

Punch Pubs

Roast & Ground

Shoosmiths

Sir Richard Sutton Limited

Smith & Brock

Sona

Sophia Waterhouse

Spaceman Marketing

Speciality Brands

Stonegate Group

Strand Palace

Switch 4 profit

Talent Funel

Thatchers

The Alchemist

The Funding Network

he Funding Network is a small charity that connects brilliant non-profits with donors that share their vision of a fair, inclusive and sustainable world. Since 2002, they have been doing this through live and virtual crowdfunding events where they have raised more than £17 million for 2,435 non-profits across the world. https://www.thefundingnetwork.org.uk

The Music License

The Restaurant Group

The Worshipful Company of Cooks

Receiving its first Royal Charter in 1482, the Cooks’ Company’s original purpose was to regulate the profession within the City of London and to develop the profession through apprenticeships. Today, the Company, which is the smallest of the City’s Livery Companies, supports apprentice chefs training at Westminster Kingsway College and sponsors catering competitions across the industry and in the armed services. It also funds major charitable projects related to education and catering, through the ‘Adopt a Chef’ programme for schools and by making grants to charities such as Springboard, Crisis UK, The Clink and the Treloar Trust.

www.cooks.org.uk

Think Hospitality

Toggle

Toggle is the go-to gifting platform, exclusively tailored for the hospitality industry. We're all about providing sleek digital gift cards, on-demand printing, and good ol' physical cards for restaurants, pubs, cafes, hotels, and more.

With top-notch design, branded webshops, and lightning-fast distribution, all backed by our never-ending support, our process is smooth as butter. We help our customers rake in the revenue while their guests enjoy an experience that's a cut above the rest.

We love teaming up with awesome tech partners. When you integrate with Toggle, you're plugging into a powerhouse platform that boosts your reach and supercharges your capabilities. Together, we can offer our customers the very best in tech and hospitality.

So, what do you say? Let's join forces and create something truly exceptional.

Tom Aikens

Vapoura Rum

Veterans' Foundation

The Veterans' Foundation has been set up to help fund charities and other charitable organisations that are helping serving and former members of the Armed Forces, and their dependants, who are in need.

The Veterans' Foundation raises its money through the Veterans’ Lottery and donations. Since inception in July 2016, it has given over £7.1 million out in grants to charitable organisations and projects, many of them small to medium-sized and very worthwhile charities, which are helping members of the Armed Forces community who are in need. The charities and other organisations we have helped include those tackling the challenges of mental and physical injuries, homelessness, unemployment, children’s loss of parents while serving and remembrance. We are grateful for the public’s support of the Veterans’ Foundation and its Veterans’ Lottery, and we encourage you to spread the word. Veterans' Foundation Founder, Major General David Shaw - www.veteransfoundation.org.uk

Walking With My Bear

Wellers

White Rabbit

Wine GB

Worshipful Company of Innholders

Under our Royal Charter, first granted in 1514, the Worshipful Company Of Innholders was responsible for upholding the quality of inns in the City of London and hospitality remains central to everything we do. We are proud to promote the modern hospitality industry, we offer fellowship and conviviality to our members and their guests, and we support many charities, especially those operating in the hospitality sector.

To find out more https://www.innholders.org.uk/

WSH

Yummy Jobs

Zonal

Zonal is the leading UK family-owned technology provider, offering a comprehensive, integrated suite of technology solutions to more than 16,000 hospitality and leisure businesses across the country.

Zonal was established in 1979, when the McLean family identified the need for a solution to manage and control their hotel operations near Edinburgh. The solution was the first electronic-point-of-sale (EPoS) system on the market, invented by Zonal’s founder, the late Ralph McLean.

This early EPoS system was admired by legendary brewer Scottish & Newcastle who then adopted our system across their network of pubs, providing both head office and site managers access to a wealth of information.

Ralph handed the reins over to his son, Stuart, who became CEO of Zonal in 1997. Alongside his talented team, Stuart continued to grow and transform the company into what is now: the UK’s largest hospitality technology company.

We now serve more than 16,000 businesses, from small independents through to large chains such as JD Wetherspoon, Greene King, PizzaExpress, Stonegate, Mitchells and Butlers The Restaurant Group, and John Lewis. With more than 40 years behind us, we have a wealth of knowledge and expertise to offer businesses, new or established, large or small, across the hospitality sector. 75% of the UK pub sector is now powered by Zonal.

Employing 600 staff across the UK, and proud of its award-winning heritage, Zonal is committed to giving back to the community. Zonal has a long tradition of giving back to charitable causes. In the last few years our teams have climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, run The London Marathon and taken on the Great Wall of China challenge – all in the name of good causes! We raised over £120,000 for our previous adopted charity, Hope for Children, and are proud to have been awarded Best Corporate Partner for three consecutive years at their annual awards ceremony. In addition to our own initiatives, through our integration with the digital charity box Pennies and our partnership with Pub Aid, we are also actively involved in facilitating & promoting the great work the hospitality industry does in raising huge amounts for Charities the length and breadth of the U.K. We are passionate about giving something back to the community and are delighted to now be working in partnership with Only a Pavement Away.

www.zonal.co.uk

Avocado Social

Beds & Bars

Led by CEO Keith Knowles operates 21 award-winning backpacker hostels, bars and pubs across Europe spanning 13 cities and 9 countries with over 750 employees. St Christopher’s Inns, Belushi’s and The Flying Pig are just some of the well-known brands within the company. As a result, Beds & Bars has been featured in the Sunday Times Top 100 fastest growing companies in the UK and and in 2016, the company achieved IIP Platinum status. Beds and Bars was born in Hammersmith in West London in 1964 by Keith’s father, where the family owned pubs in the area in the 60s.

Beds and Bars is a leading operator of tourist accommodation and entertainment venues in Europe. With backpacker hostels, bars and traditional British pubs, in 10 cities and seven countries, the diversity of our offer mirrors the diversity of our customers. At the core of what we do are the four cornerstones of the experience we strive to deliver – one that is Safe, Secure, Fun and Value for money. When we get this right, the beds fill the bars and the bars fill the beds.

We both come from pub industry backgrounds and, between us, we have over 65-years of experience. In the beginning we identified a niche in the budget accommodation market and focused on the backpacker sector. Over the last two-decades we have taken the original model of 50-beds above a pub and evolved it into a concept that involves bespoke buildings with more than 500-beds.

We are always searching for opportunities to introduce our brands to new markets, and establish businesses at home in the UK, and abroad. This makes perfect sense to us – given that our sector is set to grow and outperform the more established accommodation markets. To that end we are currently considering partnerships around the world.

We seek to enhance, develop and enrich our team, and customers alike. We never lose sight of the important people in our lives. The fun factor of life is our priority.

Britvic

Britvic is an international business rich in history and heritage. Founded in England in the 1930s, we have grown into a global organisation with 39 much-loved brands sold in over 100 countries. Built on innovation and entrepreneurial flair, our dynamism comes from our people whose unparalleled energy, spirit and creativity keep us constantly in motion, seizing opportunities to innovate sustainably and drive us forward to create a better tomorrow.

Cambridge Wine Merchants

Cambridge Wine Merchants sources great value wines from around the world made by family-owned, sustainable wineries. Founded by two friends in 1993 who were tired of big chains dominating the UK wine retail landscape the company now sells in many channels, with retail branches, our own wine bars, local Hospitality and University Colleges, and selling nationally via franchises, partner businesses and online. Wine is an important part of the social fabric of Cambridge life, and we are honoured to play our part in making wine fun, fascinating and accessible. We are proud to support Only a Pavement Away and the Punt and Dine event in Cambridge.

Christie & Co

Christie & Co is the leading specialist advisor for buying and selling businesses in our sectors – hotels, pubs, restaurants, childcare, healthcare, convenience retail, leisure and medical.

We offer unrivalled insight, experience and expertise across a range of services, including brokerage, consultancy, finance, development, investment, surveying, rent reviews, dispute resolution, corporate valuation, and turnaround & recovery. These services are all underpinned by our in-depth market intelligence and leading-edge technology. And we’re accredited by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), so you can trust in our professionalism.

We employ the largest team of sector specialists in the UK and the largest group of hotel specialists in Europe, providing professional brokerage and advisory services from offices in major cities across Britain and Europe. And because we’ve been doing this for over 80 years, we know our sectors and local markets inside out. We work closely with our clients to guide and conclude transactions of any size, covering hotels, restaurants and pubs, leisure, forecourts and convenience retail businesses, social care and elderly care, childcare & education facilities, dental practices and pharmacies.

Firebird Events

Harri

What is Harri?
Harri is a next-generation Workforce Operating System that provides hospitality businesses with a revolutionary approach to hire and manage talent. Decentralised teams can source, hire and manage top talent using media-rich profiles and streamlined tools, all while reducing costs, saving time, and enabling long-term success. Put simply, we help the best brands in hospitality accomplish 3 things: Source, Hire and Manage their staff. Clients include Mitchells & Butlers, The Ivy Collection. Yo! Sushi and many more.

Source
Using our mobile friendly app, hiring managers can post jobs, screen candidates and schedule interviews – all on the go! Our instant chat feature enables our clients to reach the talent marketplace quicker than their competitors!

Hire
Harri offers an entirely paperless onboarding process. Contracts and on-boarding documents can be filled out, e-signed and stored online creating a seamless experience for the candidate.

Manage
Once hired, our interconnected system means all hires go straight to payroll. We then provide activity based scheduling, team communications and time & attendance, all via a clock-in/ clock-out system that uses facial recognition with an iPad on site.

OAPA will use Harri to facilitate the recruitment process. Harri enables relevant applicants to apply for jobs posted on the OAPA website whilst allowing their Hospitality Partners to receive and screen applications. Built with a very intuitive interface, Harri is extremely user friendly and this will give OAPA applicants a quick and easy route into the hospitality industry.

Why have Harri chosen to support OAPA?
The hospitality industry in the UK is growing at a rapid pace. As a result, the demand for talent is at an all time high; outweighing the current supply of talent within the industry . We are extremely excited to support Only a Pavement Away because we believe the charity will provide a new and much needed stream of talent into the hospitality industry whilst simultaneously giving people the chance they need and deserve to rehabilitate and rebuild their lives. The UK government are currently fighting to end rough sleeping by 2027; OAPA will be a huge asset towards this initiative and we could not be prouder to be the Applicant Tracking System of choice that is facilitating such remarkable work.

Hill Capital Partners

Imbiba

Leisure Jobs

Licensed Trade Charity

The Licensed Trade Charity provides free personal support to anyone working or retired from pubs, bars and breweries. Support to help when there are housing difficulties, money problems, mental or physical health issues or relationship breakdown. The charity offer a free helpline and have useful resources on their website. They can also provide financial difficulty if things are tough.

Call them on 0808 801 0550 or visit www.licensedtradecharity.org.uk

Love your Pub

mum

mum believes people deserve to be looked after properly – and everyone deserves the chance to forge a rewarding career.

That’s why we’re proud to partner with Only a Pavement Away, whose vital work empowers often-overlooked talent and forward-thinking businesses to fulfil their true potential.

Together, we’re making hospitality and recruitment kinder.

Check out www.workwithmum.com

Our Place

Two guys meet in a hotel, and decide to open a restaurant!

Our Place. A restaurant without a home, supporting the homeless.

Iain Thomas and David O'Connor met at The Alan, Manchester. After leaving the business, they decided to continue their passion for food, hospitality, and art. Local, seasonal, sustainable food served with love in a space that is welcoming to all.

The ultimate aim is to find a permanent location, and working with Only a Pavement Away, support the homeless by providing stability through employment.

Pasta Remoli

Pasta Remoli, founded by Simone Remoli, produce homemade pasta and sauces fresh every day in their 4 London based restaurants and the same high quality pasta and sauces can be enjoyed at home via their home delivery service. Their pasta is made with genuine Italian eggs and flour, and lots of love course.

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Pennies

Pennies is a fintech charity and it the digital upgrade of the traditional charity box, designed to fit with our increasingly cashless lifestyles. Anyone can ‘feel good’ give with participating Pennies retailers – by donating a few pence to charity when paying by card or mobile wallet. It’s as simple as a single press of a button or click of a mouse.

Pennies has supported over 54 million small change digital donations to date through its digital charity box, raising £13 million in extra income for more than 300 charities, and growing.

Savills

As one of the world’s leading property agents, Savills services span the globe, with 35,000 experts working across 600 offices in the Americas, Europe, Asia Pacific, Africa and the Middle East.

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The Drinks Trust

The Drinks Trust is a charity supporting people from the hospitality industry. They recently launched a new free training programme “Develop” to help people going through hardship gain new skills and join the industry. The programme is also aimed at people already working within the industry who want to upskills. Develop is something Only A Pavement Away will promote to its candidates through its jobs board.

On top of this fantastic training programme, The Drinks Trust will also be able to help our candidates with up to £250 bursary that can be used even before the candidate has started work to help with (including, but not limited to):

Transport
Uniform / appropriate workwear clothing
Personal hygiene items / linen / towels
Subsistence for first week work

TipJar

Tried & Supplied

Tried & Supplied is a sustainable procurement platform that enables hospitality and food retail businesses to access the data needed for better business decisions covering both profitability and sustainability. Alongside the software they also offer their expert services in data management, analysis, and sustainable sourcing, to help businesses make the shift to a more data-driven, ESG focused business model that delivers healthy margins and growing sales. Covering everything from sourcing, purchasing, invoice management, recipe management and inventory management, Tried & Supplied is constantly working to ensure customers have the most user-friendly complete solution for their back-of-house operations that manages the flow of data around pricing, allergens, nutrition and sustainability from supplier right through to menu, saving hospitality teams a lot of time spent on boring admin work.

Venners

In a world driven by heightened customer expectations and demand it’s easy to underestimate supply chain complexity and the need to ensure optimal controls are in place. Established businesses, those looking to expand and those in transition can all benefit from improved measures that can meet the challenges and opportunities in today’s and tomorrow’s markets.

Venners have over 120 years of experience serving the hotel, pub and restaurant sectors in preventing losses, optimising stock control and increasing compliance levels; helping operators eliminate shrinkage, decrease procurement costs and significantly improve profits.

Increasing profit and optimising control for our clients is at the heart of everything we do. We have made it our business for over 120 years and have operations across the UK, so wherever your business happens to be we can react quickly to your needs. We are serious about helping you meet your business targets. It’s personal for us, we don’t subcontract or franchise – we recruit and develop our workforce so you not only get industry accredited auditors, but business consultants and advisers too.

Venners are the only stocktaking company to have internal training accredited by the BII, the British Institute of Innkeeping. Our services include Liquor & Food Stocktaking, Real-Time Stocktaking and Control, Inventory Valuation and Health & Safety, including Food Hygiene support. We also provide a suite of compliance related services such as private investigation, financial compliance, operational compliance and Revenue investigation.

Find out more at www.venners.com or contact them at 01279 620 873 and enquiries@venners.co.uk

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Wireless Social

Since its inception in 2015, Wireless Social has quickly become the Guest Wi-Fi and Analytics industry standard across hospitality, and is used by 1 million new Wi-Fi users every month.

They count over 600 well-known high-street operators as customers, including Pizza Express, Ask Italian and Fuller’s Pubs. Their solution helps operators better understand their guest behaviour, through a dedicated insights and reporting platform, and benchmarking capabilities to compare themselves against their industry peers.

They also integrate with over 90 leading hospitality CRM, marketing, and SCV platforms so that data can be seamlessly transferred and reported on across all of the Operator’s platforms. The guest data collected from the Wi-Fi service is now widely recognised as the best source of GDPR compliant data.

AVLP

The Association of Valuers of Licensed Property is the leading body of specialist advice for licensing valuers in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1894, some 100 members represent licensed property valuers on a nationwide basis.

Some of the members deal with tenancy changes and lettings whilst others are specialist chattels and public house valuers, rating surveyors and members of firms dealing with rental, capital and bank valuations, corporate asset valuations and the sales of freehold and leasehold licensed premises.

The majority of AVLP members spend 100% of their working time involved in the various aspects of licensed property valuation. It is from this dedication of dealing with many transactions that the valuers experience and knowledge of comparable evidence provides the means of accurately assessing the market.

For valuation advice do go to an experienced valuer and make sure that they have separate accounts for business and clients and, of course, that they have professional indemnity insurance. Retaining the services of a member of the Association of Valuers of Licensed Property ensures peace of mind and that your best interests are looked after.

British Beer & Pub Association

The British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA) champions issues that matter to the beer and pub industry. These are causes our members are passionate about: whether that’s promoting beer as the nation’s drink, or lobbying against increases in beer duty and businesses rates that are so damaging to community pubs.

Our members are responsible for 90% of beer brewed in Britain today and we represent around 20,000 of the country’s pubs. They include international companies, family brewers, managed locals and the nation’s largest tenanted pub estates. It’s a diverse group but we are passionate about representing, supporting and campaigning for the interests of the beer and pub sector.

The BBPA is now more than 100 years old, having been founded in 1904, we have a unique identity and a powerful voice which we use to influence public opinion, in the interests of our members.

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British Institute of Innkeeping

The BII was established over 30 years ago to provide comprehensive business and professional support for people working in the licensed hospitality industry. We now have a national network of over 9,000 like-minded members, working across all areas of the sector – from apprentices to barstaff, pub chefs, managers, tenants, lessees and freetraders. The common denominator is that all our members aspire to advance their careers and grow their businesses with the help and support of the BII network.

We offer a one-stop shop, with access to expert advice, guidance, helplines, mentoring, qualifications and a range of free and discounted business services specifically tailored for the licensed industry you won’t find anywhere else – all for less than the price of a pint each week!

HOSPA

HOSPA (Hospitality Professionals Association) is a not-for-profit educational organisation, formed to bring together those hospitality industry professionals involved in Financial Management, Revenue Management, Marketing, IT and Asset Management.

Not only is HOSPA recognised as the UK’s authoritative voice in the hospitality industry on financial management, technical accounting issues and hotel valuation, but also as the leading arena for debate on hotel technology developments, Revenue Management and marketing. HOSPA’s Professional Development Programmes in Revenue Management and Financial Management provide rigorous and relevant education for all those seeking to further their careers in these important functions.

A regular programme of workshops and seminars provide the perfect opportunity for members to continue to develop their knowledge and network with colleagues. HOSPA is on all major Social Media channels, including Twitter on @HOSPATweets

For more information, visit: www.hospa.org

Portman Group

The Portman Group is the social responsibility body and regulator for alcohol labelling, packaging, and promotion in the UK. Founded in 1989, it has over 130 code signatories from producers, retailers and membership bodies and it is funded by 12 industry leading member companies.

The Portman Group aims to consistently challenge the industry to deliver high standards of best practice and fulfil the essential self-regulatory role of ensuring the responsible marketing and promotion of alcoholic products to UK consumers under our Codes of Practice. The Code which celebrates its 25-year anniversary in 2021 outlines the guidelines all alcohol producers must follow when naming, branding and selling alcoholic drinks. The Portman Group provides free advice to producers on labelling design in relation to the Code and free training on how the rules are applied.

Since its inception, the Code has outlined what it means to be responsible. It lays out a foundation of rules and regulations to which all alcohol products on the UK market must adhere. Recent years have seen the publication of the sixth edition of the Code, following a public consultation which received submissions from Department of Health and Social Care, alcohol charities, industry groups and producers. The sixth edition shows that the Code is responsive to societal changes. It included a number of changes including the explicit protection of the vulnerable in the overarching principle of the Code; a new rule that packaging and any promotional material or activity should not cause serious or widespread offence; and additions to rules to ensure that a product should not suggest any association with illegal behaviour nor that a product should not claim to have mind-altering qualities or suggest that it will change mood or behaviour. An audit of the market six months after the edition was issued showed 95% adherence to the Code.

In addition to being the industry regulator function, the Group seeks to facilitate and demonstrate responsibility in the alcohol sector. The Portman Group was instrumental in discussions with Government to improve the sector, leading to the Responsibility Deal that removed 1.9 bn units from the shelves as well as the commitment by industry to inform consumers of the Chief Medical Officers low risk recommendations.

During the COVID-19 pandemic a huge variety of organisations involved in the alcohol sector took action to support their communities. As the convener of the sector the Group published the ‘Supporting Communities – the Drink Sector’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic’ which highlighted the activities made by the industry to support the relief effort, its staff, small businesses, and the rapid steps taken to become COVID-secure as and when hospitality venues have been allowed to reopen. As part of the report promotion, the Group launched a blog series spotlighting charities, businesses and organisations who played their part to help those who need it most.

www.portmangroup.org.uk

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KBE Drinks

KBE Drinks are proud to deliver some of the world’s most exciting Beer and Cider brands into the hands and mouths of UK consumers. As a Sales, Marketing and Distribution business founded nearly thirty years ago, KBE has curated an intriguing and differentiated portfolio of brands from all over the globe including Kingfisher from India, Sagres from Portugal, Dos Equis from Mexico and Kome from Japan. We are focused, creative and entrepreneurial in developing distribution and sales for these brands across the hospitality sector inclusive of pubs, bars, restaurants and hotels, plus national supermarket chains and local convenience stores. We are an export specialist too, currently shipping to 27 European markets as well as nominated countries within the Middle East, North America, Asia and the Caribbean. As consumers develop evermore curious and sophisticated tastes, we strive to discover new and diverse flavours that offer something a little different from the norm. With sales increasing 55% in just three years, we are confident we have found the formulae for growth!

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