Get Involved


Join Slow Food in the UK and you automatically also become a member of Slow Food Ludlow Marches, as your local group.

By becoming a member of Slow Food, you help us promote our message of good, clear and fair. Our 2022 events are in full swing, you can see our current events and buy tickets here. As a member, you'll receive a discounted price on all Slow Food events as well as a range of other benefits.

For the latest on what we're doing, join our mailing list.

1. Standard Membership

A cheese burger

Whether you join as a Family, an Individual or at a Concessionary rate you will become part of a vibrant international community of people who believe in good, clean and fair food for everyone with a range of linked benefits.

You can find out more information and join here

2. Gift Membership

Fruit Salad

A great present that not only introduces someone who shares the Slow Food ethos to a whole international network of ideas and activities, but also supports the work of Slow Food in the UK.

Treat someone special to all the benefits of Slow Food Membership

3. Patron Membership

Becoming a Patron gives you a closer relationship to Slow Food, with a dedicated contact, a Patron Membership card, a quarterly newsletter taking an in-depth look at our work and a special rose gold coloured snail pin badge!

Whether you become an Individual or a Family Patron, you can be confident that your membership fee gives valuable support to fund our work.

Full details about Patron Membership here

4. Business Membership

This is a rapidly expanding growth area tailored for small food businesses and organisations who share and engage with the Slow Food ethos through our network, to achieve positive change in the food system.

Here you can view the full range of special Business Member benefits

...or you can email slowludlow@gmail.com if you would like to discuss this further and explore how we can work together with you.

We're delighted to be working with:

 

Ludlow Dry Gin - Shropshire Hills Distillery Ltd

Ludlow Dry Gin - Shropshire Hills Distillery Ltd

Hand crafted and copper distilled. Special gins and liqueurs made in the town of great food - the perfect Slow Food combination.

Darwin Coffee

Darwin Coffee

A speciality coffee roaster, Darwin sustainably source green coffee beans from small growers and roast them in Shrewsbury.

Spilsbury and Jones

Spilsbury and Jones

Going from strength to strength this partnership makes great small-batch beers, using their own home-grown hops, and run their own Tap House with a popular food offer.

Dinham Weir House

Dinham Weir House

A stunning private rental home on the banks of the Teme in Ludlow, this former Michelin starred restaurant continues its link with fine dining with an in-house chef, making the most of local ingredients.

Toots Sweets Chocolates

Toots Sweets Chocolates

Beautiful both to look at and to eat, these little boules of artisan deliciousness are all hand made in Shropshire, from fine cocoa beans and local ingredients.

Bridges Game Meat

Bridges Game Meat

Offering delicious, health and sustainable local venison to other Slow Food businesses and by direct sales to the public, wild deer are carefully managed.

Netherton Foundry

Netherton Foundry

With a national presence, Netherton Foundry never-the-less are firmly rooted in the Marches. Their ironware is favoured by chefs, but also can be used at home, from stove to oven and even over flame.

Monkland Cheesemakers

Monkland Cheesemakers

Using local raw milk, this Marches dairy make some renowned cheeses such as Little Hereford, all of which are vegetarian.

Luca Wines

Luca Wines

Importing directly from small growers in the Piedmont region of North Italy, Luca Wine offer a range of classic and less familiar bottles.

Bennet & Dunn

Bennet & Dunn

With many of the same natural omega oils as olive, these cold-pressed rapeseed oils are healthy and tasty, with a high smoking point. Grown in North Shropshire they are also local, and available as pure oil or in a range of flavour-infused options.

Berry's Icecream

Berry's Icecream

Situated at the heart of the Three Counties, Berry's can command the best of their produce. With Herefordshire milk and Worcestershire fruit, their ice creams and sorbets are handmade and all natural.

Stonebird Wines

Stonebird Wines

Local grapes, ancient techniques and African knowhow combine to make some intriguing offers, like their amphora-matured Ratafia.

Truly Tea

Truly Tea

Hailing from Italy, the origin of Slow Food, Federica is well established here in the Marches. She blends her own teas and has a following across the country from her on-line shop. You can also catch her at markets and festivals across the area.

Shrewsbury Gin

Shrewsbury Gin

From running a Gin bar to making his own premium product for Shrewsbury , Darren has had a journey, with a story to tell.

What are the benefits of becoming a Slow Food member?


 

  • Become part of a vibrant international community of people who believe in good, clean and fair food for everyone. Add your voice to the growing movement fighting to protect our local food heritage and culture.
  • Join your local group to help spread the Slow Food message in your own community. Enjoy a wide range of activities and campaigns from talks, tastings and producer visits, to educational programmes and restaurant outings. Connect with a network of like-minded people.
  • Our national bi-monthly newsletter, and the international newsletter will also come to your mailbox each month (if you wish).
  • You will receive online access to the annual Slow Food Almanac about our international projects and activities.
  • A discount for Slow Food International Publications such as Slow Wine and Osterie & Locande D’Italia.
  • Your membership card will entitle you to member discounts on local and national events such as Slow Food Week.
  • Discounted ticket prices for international events such as Terra Madre & Salone Del Gusto and Slow Cheese.
  • Each new member receives a ‘snail pin’ which we hope you’ll wear with pride.