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The Independent Hospitality Alliance (IHA)

The Independent Hospitality Alliance (IHA) is a group of eight trade associations who have banded...

The Do’s and Don’ts of Terms and Conditions for Catering Businesses

As a catering professional, ensuring your terms and conditions (T&Cs) are robust and legally compliant...

Member Spotlight: Spud Man

We all love a good jacket potato, it’s a cornerstone of British cuisine. Many a...

Your Festival Needs You: The Fair launches campaign celebrating festivals

Festival production company The Fair has launched the ‘Your Festival Needs You’ campaign celebrating the...

Welsh Street Food Awards Regional Heats

Yay 🙌. It’s THIS weekend. Street Food Circus are hosting the regional Welsh Street Food...

Member Spotlight: Olive ROC Centre

Independent hospitality and community are interchangeable terms. Often independent hospitality businesses form the bedrock of...

Making the Most of Euro 2024

Euro 2024 kicks off on Friday and brings with it a raft of opportunities for...

Member Spotlight: JoJo’s Fish and Chips

If there’s one thing Britain still loves like it always has, it’s fish and chips....

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New Health and Safety course

New health&safety course

Coming soon

Our brand new Health and Safety course is coming soon – containing everything you need to know to operate safely and surely

Coming Soon: The NCASS Digital Safety Management System

The NCASS Digital Safety Management System

Coming soon

Manage your safety online with our new system built for NCASS members – our brand new, innovative Digital Safety Management System (DSMS).

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INDEPENDENT HOSPITALITY WEEK

May 2024

This is a week for everyone to back independents, share food and drink experiences and back the businesses that make our cities, towns and villages what they are. We’re asking businesses to join IHW and for their customers to shout about how much their local bars, cafes, restaurants pubs, street food traders, event & festival traders mean to them. Collectively we want to make as much noise as possible about how important these wonderful food and drinks businesses are.

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The Safe Use of LPG in Mobile and Outside Catering

Live Now

This course is essential for anyone working with or assessing the suitability of mobile LPG setups. It outlines the key essential safety rules for using LPG appliances and provides an understanding of handling LPG cylinders in any scenario or environment. This course will enable the learner to effectively undertake day-to-day LPG related tasks such as transportation, storage, connecting and disconnecting appliances to cylinders etc., safely and with confidence.

Making Winter Downtime Count

November 2023

Our comprehensive new guides features helpful advice and resources to get you planning through the quiet winter period for a successful 2024.

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SFBB or SMS? Let’s see them side by side.

November 2023

We have created a comparison guide to help food & drink businesses understand the key differences between the NCASS food safety management system and the FSA’s system. This guide shows what, how and why the NCASS system works for our members and how it can work for you. 

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podcast

NCASS Podcast

September 2023

Effective Allergen Management with Ani – part two

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Starting Small

Starting up small guide

August 2023

Our Starting Small guide is tailored towards stripping back the potential intimidation and showing you how simple it can be for you to try out a potential dream venture.

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NCASS Partnership

August 2023

NCASS is delighted to announce Hospitality Action (HA) as its chosen partnership, a vital charity providing hospitality workers with advice and support whenever times get tough.

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New HACCP Training Course

HACCP Training Course

June 2023

Our brand new, revamped HACCP course is here – get ahead of the game with NCASS

Training Page

New Learning Management System

June 2023

We are excited to announce the launch of our new training platform. We have migrated all training courses and users to the new and improved system and we are sure that these upgrades will significantly enhance your training experience. 

Allergens & Alcohol guide

May 2023

This guide runs through the relationship between allergens and alcohol.

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The Guild of Caribbean Cuisine

 2023

The Guild of Caribbean Cuisine has been launched with support from NCASS, in order to push forward Caribbean cuisine, chefs and food businesses.

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Summer Guide

May 2023

Get Ready, Set for Summer with our free guide.

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New Safety Management System

January 2023

Our Safety Management System has been developed to assist food and drink businesses to comply with and exceed all Food Safety and Hygiene, Health and Safety (H&S) and Fire Safety requirements.

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