Help Kent Buy Local
Kent Life|May 2020
Kent’s independent businesses are working tirelessly to grow, produce, prepare, sell and deliver food and drink to the local community during the coronavirus crisis
Sarah Sturt 
Help Kent Buy Local

Help Kent Buy Local is a campaign that was swiftly set up by Produced in Kent to support and promote the many independent local businesses working incredibly hard to grow, produce, prepare, sell and deliver food and drink to the Kent community during the coronavirus pandemic.

The website (helpkentbuylocal. co.uk) shows customers which local food and drink businesses are still operating. All businesses can list their services on the site for free. The trade-support membership organisation is deliberately reaching out to all businesses in the food and drink sector, members as well as nonmembers of Produced in Kent.

“In these extraordinary times it is so important that we support each other and work together,” says Floortje Hoette, new Chief Executive of Produced in Kent.

“We have created this new site to connect the businesses with the consumers, as well as other businesses.

Every single business across Kent needs some sort of support right now and we are here to help all these businesses to stay afloat, by facilitating customers’ access to good local food.

“If anything good was to come out of this challenging period, it is a higher public awareness of the fantastic food supplied by your local butcher, the farm shops, the bakers and the village shops, not forgetting the doorstep deliveries made by the local dairy farms.

“We must all make an effort to buy local, not just now, but also when Covid19 is no longer dominating our daily lives.”

This story is from the May 2020 edition of Kent Life.

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