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Nothing makes me happier than introducing and connecting people. But despite my commitment to giving all my clients full access to my experience and my network in the most cost-effective way possible, I understand that not everyone can afford my services. Quite often, it’s the people who need my help most who can’t stretch their budgets to work with me, but closed doors and privileged access to support and information goes against the grain of everything I stand for so, I’d like to take a moment to let you know about my commitment to giving back.

City Harvest

I’m in a very fortunate position. Having worked in the food industry for more than three decades, I have an amazing network of connections that I love working with and with whom I enjoy rewarding working relationships. I’m always learning, sharing ideas and connecting the people I meet along the way, and I’m passionate about creating an inspiring, dynamic network that helps my clients realise their goals, often a lot faster than if they were going it alone.

 

But I’m also passionate about giving back. Sometimes I share my skills, expertise, and connections at significantly reduced rates or on a pro-bono basis. Other times, I simply share the name of exactly the right contact, review a business strategy, make a timely donation or help drum up the right publicity for a project.

 

However I give back; I’m proud to open up doors that might otherwise have remained shut. I work with fledgeling businesses in the food industry, collaborate with local business groups, and I support councils and local authority groups. I also work with community groups with a strong food focus in the countries I work in outside the UK. I’ve worked with an inspirational after-school club, helping them to produce and distribute a recipe book in a major supermarket chain to raise much-deserved funds, and I’m proud to say I’m an Ambassador for the incredible food redistribution charity, City Harvest London.

 

We choose to work this way with a small number of start-up business and community groups with a strong food focus over the year so please, get in touch to see if we can help.

 

A Note on Giving Back

 

I’ve chosen to share how I give back because I want to help people realise that they can play a part in their community and give back too. To me, giving back is about using my skills and experience to give people who truly need it the support that could make a real difference. It’s not always financial; sometimes it’s the smallest thing, but being open to giving back can change lives. If we all share how we’re giving back, maybe we can inspire each other to get involved, not for our benefit, but for the benefit of our communities and the businesses that support us all.

 

So, if you’re an established business with a strong food focus, looking for inspiration as to how you can get more involved in your community, drop me a line, and we can talk.

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Jane Milton

Food industry expert Jane Milton has been in the business for more than 30 years and has the inside track on all things food!

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Fresh Banter with Giles Christopher ,Food, Drink & Hospitality Photographer
byJane Milton

Fresh Banter with Giles Christopher, the food, drink and hospitality photographer

 

Giles and I met many years ago through his wife and business partner Abi, and since then we have all worked on a lot of jobs together and have spent a lot of time together socially chatting about business and life.

 

He got some great advice from his Dad about offering to do things nobody else likes to do at work and making himself a valuable team member and sound found he had multiple job offers …

 

He’s run his own business for over 20 years and we talk about how basic business skills should be part of the curriculum for everyone nowadays

 

He shares about the prep that goes into shoots and how technology has changed the job so much and how much time photographers now spend in post production too. And about the sheer weight of kit that he takes to ‘location’ shoots too.

 

Giles loves tech and is always pushing himself to learn new ways of doing things , or master new equipment and he also talks about keeping up with and ahead of that if you can

 

A really interesting insight into all that food and drink photography involves, and some great tips for podcasts and business blogs to watch out for too.

 

I’m really pleased we managed to book Giles for a chat in this last episode of series 3…

 

Let me introduce you to Giles Christopher


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