Tastebuds Collective is able to provide food specific business support, both by meeting with its in-house team but also working with core community partners that can deliver funded business support.
Tastebuds in-house support:
- Alex - business strategy, ideation, sales, marketing, project management
- Charlotte - marketing, social media, communications and events
Innovation Support

Nick is Food Consultant at Broadland Food Innovation Centre, working for Hethel Innovation and Broadland and South Norfolk District Council. Hethel Innovation want to help businesses to succeed, working on a 1-2-1 basis, creating a package of support to help them reach their goals and ambitions.
The areas of support they can provide include:
- Business model formulation
- Market insights
- Funding
- Distribution channels
- Competitor analysis
- New product development
- Product testing
- Packaging
- Customer testing

Start Up Support
MENTA offers training and support to businesses within Norfolk and Suffolk. They can provide fully-funded training and support programmes focused on supporting you from pre-start to launch and longer-term growth.
MENTA also have welcoming workspaces for freelancers and business teams in Suffolk.
Connecting Innovation
Connected innovation support clusters and business support across Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex. They can provide introductions to multiple growth funding programmes, grants and business support.
