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Making small brands in
food & drink mighty

Young Foodies is the UK’s community of the most exciting food and drink brands; sharing knowledge, experience and access to solutions that make the everyday easier for challenger brands.

Building best-in-class
teams

We help our brands hire superstar grads or experienced hires, find the best consultants for their specific project or temporary needs, and train up their team on industry knowledge or skills.

Develop a robust
backoffice

We help run our brand’s day-to-day operations, deliver consulting projects and audits, check packaging labels for compliance and provide in-house legal advisory services.

Gain economies of
scale

We give our brands access to fit-for purpose and cost-effective solutions including, syndicated field marketing services, negotiated supplier discounts and a toolkit of useful tools & templates.

Access the right
funding

We help our brands to find best-fit industry investors, support them to develop their pitch and financial readiness, and manage the end-to-end fundraising process with them.

YF Community

An exclusive members community bringing the most exciting brands together to share expertise and learning as they grow.

YF Academy

Affordable training courses for individuals working in all areas of food & drink brands. We’ve built these courses specifically for people like you.

YF Talent

We’ve created a pool of incredible people all looking for jobs in brands like yours! If you’re looking for someone to join your team, or looking to join a team:

YF Backoffice

We can manage your logistics for you, deliver bespoke projects, check your product labels or give you access to tools & templates.

YF Funding

Our funding experts can support you to raise between £250k and £5 million including introducing you to the best-fit investors.

Think we can help?

Our Promise

We believe in start-ups and we want them to enjoy some of the benefits of bigger businesses. By working together we can save each other time, money and lots of sleepless nights Googling barcodes...!

We save you money
wherever we can

We save you time
whenever we can

We tailor our services
to your needs

Press & Media

How is Brexit impacting food & drink challenger brands?

The Grocer

Young Foodies Interview with The Bulletin

British Frozen Food Federation

Foodies and finance hope to achieve recipe for start-up success

The Times

Young Foodies wins New Business of the Year 2018 award!

Awards International

Top 30 Startups You Need to Know 2018

Just Entrepreneurs

GS1 UK partners with the Young Foodies to support SME growth

GS1 UK

My food & drink job: Chris Eyitayo, Young Foodies

The Grocer

“It’s expensive being a small brand – it’s simply not fair”

Speciality Food Magazine

The Importance of Nurturing Entrepreneurship to Support Creativity and Innovation in Business

Awards International

A hunger for success - the UK's flourishing food and drink start-ups

BALANCE

Supermarket sweep: The new food upstarts

Courier

Building bridges: how retailers and independent start-ups can work better together

Foodspark

Nailing your first buyer meeting: 5 tips from food and drink startup founders

The Grocer

Big food brand to startup: what to expect when taking the leap

The Grocer

Propercorn

Amanda

Plenish

“Finally people get to hang out and share their stories while learning from one another.”
Pip Nuts

Jaro

Pip & Nut

“Young foodies is the missing piece in
tying together an inspirational
community for the benefits of all”
Mallow & Marsh

Abi

Mallow & Marsh

“Young Foodies is a great resource for young and growing companies. The more you take part in it, the more you get out of it. I've really enjoyed expanding my network and building my knowledge in the industry.”
Peppercorn

Howard & Vivien

Little Moons

“We've met a lot of great industry peers through YF. So many passionate people building great brands and the training courses are invaluable. Really practical skills that we could implement in our business almost immediately.”

Too young for all this?

If you’re pre-launch or just getting started, Young Foodies Lite is just for you. It covers all the basics of starting a food & drink business in the UK and, yes, it’s free!