Follow Coffee Co Celebrates a ยฃ200K Investment and Year of Success and Milestones ๐ฅณ
Following a year of exceptional accomplishments and milestones, multi-award-winning Follow Coffee Company is celebrating their first birthday at Portrushโs Follow Coast. The anniversary is accompanied by a significant ยฃ200k investment in their Ballymena branch, further solidifying their commitment to excellence and growth.
Owners Lesley and Mark McCaughan have firmly established Follow Coffee Co as a community staple in Ballymena over the past four years, it has become synonymous with quality and excellence. Recently, Lesley and Mark solidified their commitment to the brand's future by acquiring the building, completing the ยฃ200K transaction in December 2023. With a total of 22 staff members, they continue to elevate the coffee experience for their loyal customers.
Speaking of the investment, Lesley Said: โWe are absolutely delighted to be celebrating multiple milestones today; our first birthday of Follow Coast and four years at Follow Ballymena.
โWe made bold decision to invest in the building in Ballymena within five years of opening, so to do this ahead of schedule was a wonderful feeling and one which we are immensely proud of.
โOur growth has been steady-year-one year and really exceeded our goals well beyond our target; in fact, the last 12 months have been our strongest to-date. We have really enjoyed getting to know our customers and have been rewarded with the most amazing staff. I want to thank the local communities in both Portrush and Ballymena for their support and custom over the past 4 years and look forward to a bright future in both towns.โ
Follow Coffee Company is continually investing in the future and the business and most recently Jackie Robinson, former head chef in Follow Coast Portrush, was promoted to the esteemed position of Executive Chef across the brand. Jackie will be working closely with local suppliers and chefs to create exciti
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FRASER MILLAR PLAY CENTRAL ROLE IN INTERNATIONAL
BUILDING & SUSTAINABILITY CONFERENCE
Leading property developer, Fraser Millar, played a central role in the recent International Building and Sustainability Conference, attended by leaders in low-energy and Passivhaus design from across the world.
Delegates heard from key-speaker, John Carrigan, from Fraser Millar, who is one of only 10 renowned โEveryday Climate Heroesโ in the UK selected for inclusion in the national campaign during COP26 in Glasgow last year. Fraser Millar were the only developer world-wide invited to speak at the conference which took place in Enniskillen in September. They shared learnings and future plans for their ยฃ70M Lancaster Park Passivhaus project which features 219 low-energy and near-zero carbon homes in Belfast.
Passivhaus delegates from 16 different nationalities, took time out of the busy conference schedule to travel to Lancaster Park for an exclusive tour of the largest certified developer-led Passivhaus residential project in the whole of the UK and Ireland.
Speaking at the event David Millar said: โToday is a proud day in our almost 60-year history. We are honoured and humbled to have leading experts from across the world recognising the role this company is playing in the future of home-building in Northern Ireland.โ
Dr Barry McCarron, Passive House Association of Ireland said: โTodayโs site visit has been phenomenal. This Lancaster Park development is hugely important as it demonstrates leadership in construction and breaks the glass ceiling for the rest of the building industry to follow. It is also fantastic in respect to the climate change agenda thatโs going on at the moment and the current energy crisis.โ
Emma Osmundsen, Managing Director , Exeter City Living continued: โTodayโs visit to Lancaster Park has been absolutely fantastic for everyone.
โWe have been developing Passivhaus Homes in England for 15 years, and 60 per cent of
Holywood Chamber of Commerce Launches First Ever Virtual Reality Town Tour
Holywood, County Down, has become the first town in Northern Ireland to launch a cutting-edge, 360-degree virtual reality (VR) tour of the town in a โgame-changingโ marketing and tourism initiative.
The initiative has been introduced by Holywood Chamber of Commerce and created by local business, JohnsonWestco.com using both drone technology and 360-degree VR photography. The digital tour commences with a 360-degree birds-eye view of Holywood, allowing the user to move between 11 drones to view the entire town as if in the sky. It also allows full zoom-in access with an option to enter the shops in a first-hand immersive experience, virtually placing them in the picture, allowing exploration of the location.
Holywood Chamber of Commerce whoโs mission it is to promote the business interests of Holywood town and the surrounding areas, says they feel the project will help put them on the map both locally and internationally.
Leslie Waite, Joint President of Holywood Chamber of Commerce, and owner of Hannah's Florist said: โAs a business owner in Holywood for over 52 years, I am really excited about this new technology which will really help us shout about just how amazing Holywood is to visit, shop and do business in.
โThe drone footage and photography are second-to-none and really brings our town to life showing everything from the beautiful seafront, historical points of interest, to public transport links, parking, to the 70+ independent shops spanning everything from ladies clothing boutiques, to silver smiths, award-winning restaurants and the many delicious coffee shops and delicatessens.โ
The Holywood Virtual Tour is accessible via smart phone, tablet, computer or VR headset, and the different businesses featured can embed the link to the tour within their own website and social media channels. Call-out tags have been placed throughout the Tour which gives further
-Townsend Enterprise Park โTurns Up the Flavourโ with Carolyn Stewart NIโ
Leading business hub, Townsend Enterprise Park , has officially welcomed radio broadcaster and award-winning food producer, Carolyn Stewartโs burgeoning business โTurn Up the Flavourโ to the site.
Carolynโs new business unit houses a bespoke 800 square foot industrial kitchen unit which allows her to produce her artisan Jamaican Patty range on a large-scale.
Carolyn, a favourite on U105โs afternoon Bistro show, set-up Turn up the Flavour in 2016 following a life-long love of cooking and Caribbean flavours. The brand, which started with a Caribbean Pickle product, has grown steadily year-on-year and four of her products were recognised at both the Irish Food Awards winning Gold and Bronze and the Great Taste Awards gaining stars, meaning they were graded as โoutstandingโ against 14,000 products from 108 countries. She has since diversified into hand-producing delicious Jamaican Patties which are now sold in delicatessenโs across Northern Ireland.
The move to Townsend Enterprise Park - a charitable organisation whose aim it is to stimulate social and economic regeneration - has allowed Carolyn to up-scale the production of the Patty product allowing her to make up to 300 products per day to meet growing demand.
Carolyn says that the new product was inspired following many trips to Jamaica where she fell in love with the street food. She said: โI have been to Jamaica many times and always absolutely loved their Patty Shacks across the Island, all selling the most delicious, flavorsome and unique patties. I have been on a mission to develop my own take on these for the past few years and am absolutely delighted with our finished product.
โWe spent many months developing the recipes and have honed ours down to four combinations; Beef, Chicken, Veggie and Vegan, all home-made using the freshest local Northern Ireland ingredients. Our new premises at Townsend, w
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Local business, Belfast Coffee Roasters, has almost doubled turnover over the past 18 months.
Demand has increased so much that they have invested in a new state-of-the-art coffee roaster and moved to a larger premises in Townsend Enterprise Park <3 well done Allen & team!
Little Sunflower Champions Childrenโs Mental Health Week Cross-Border ๐ป
Little Sunflower, a course designed to strengthen childrenโs emotional and mental wellbeing, is this week celebrating Children's Mental Health Week (7 to 13 October 2021) encouraging young people and adults to celebrate their uniqueness and understand more about how they think, feel and act.
Little Sunflower is being rolled out to schools across Ireland, the North and the UK, aiming to help children with their mental health, resilience and self-esteem. The course creator, Sarah Gilbert, has been visiting local Primary schools around the border towns of Newry and Dundalk to share in the spirit of the national week.
She is also to hold a workshop on Wednesday 20th October, in the Mourne Country Hotel, for teachers, principals and educators to share a range of tools which can be used in a classroom setting to identify emotional and mental health issues and showcase manageable ways to help the children.
St Peterโs Primary School in Cloughreagh have fully embraced the course and Mrs OโHareโs P5 class have now performed the Little Sunflower song for Children's Mental Health Week.
Little Sunflower is an early intervention course for six to 10-year-olds, which promotes fun, laughter and song as well teaching resilience and early intervention wellbeing skills through a suite of resources.
The five-week, animated, interactive course gives teachers a range of tools which they can use on a day-to-day basis to help the children with any mental health issues, from colourful characters that face challenging scenarios to teach children how to deal with anxiety-inducing situations.
Sarah Gilbert, founder of Little Sunflower explains: โThis week sees the start of Childrenโs Mental Health Week which is such a relevant and important topic, and particularly at the moment.
โRecent studies show that in the 1960โs the average age for depression was 45 years, in 2018 the onset age wa
Stove Bistro 1 Year in Business with October Seafood Month ๐ฆ๐ฆ
Belfastโs newest culinary gem, Stove bistro headed up by Simon Toye and Simon McCance (Ginger), is today celebrating one year in business with the launch of Stove Seafood Month and two awards short-listings.
The two Simons โ Toye former Executive Chef at Deanes, and McCance, owner of Ginger Bistro - have quickly firmly established Stove Bistro as one of the Cityโs top eateries in the heart of one of the cityโs burgeoning places for food and drink.
The duoโs excellence has already been recognised with the shortlisting for two prestigious awards; โBest Eatery/Coffee Shopโ category in Belfast Chamber Business Awards with Simon Toye being recognised in the Best Chef in Ulster in the Food and Wine Restaurant of the Year Awards 2021 which will take place in the Great Room at Dublinโs Shelbourne Hotel, in November.
The upstairs, well-spaced, clean-wood restaurant, on the Ormeau Road, has fast become renowned for its fantastic local seafood, delectable meat dishes as well as an exceptional vegan and vegetarian offering.
October will see them celebrate all things seafood, with a special menu featuring a broad range of locally, responsibly caught local fish and shellfish from our local waters. Saturday lunchtime will also feature a special menu and live acoustic music from 1pm to 3pm.
The dynamic duo launched the restaurant in the midst of the Pandemic, and despite all the challenges, they havenโt looked back.
Simon Toye, former Executive Chef at Deanes said: โThis weekend marks our first birthday and one which we are very proud to celebrate.
โDespite all challenges we have come a long way in a short period of time. Our overall aim was to create a community bistro in the city which was casual but known for exceptional food and drink.
โEvery effort has been made to make that a reality and I am so grateful to our fantastic team and our loyal customers for supporting us over t
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The Derry~Londonderry store is their second store to open in the past 8 months ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ
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Tonight was the night! Did you catch Alfred John Minnis John Minnis Estate Agents on tonightโs UTV Northern Ireland with Katie Stevenson & Neil Work talking about the huge surge in people returning to live in Northern Ireland, which is resulting in a growth in the property market.
Check out Mabel, who was the star ๐of the show! ๐พ๐๐ป
Rehearsals for the most anticipated show of the year...Lush 21, tomorrow at the The SSE Arena, Belfast with the Ulster Orchestra #GooseBumps
Live at goQradio with Gareth Stewart and Rotary
