The Countryside Alliance Awards open to nominations on Monday 6th September.
This important celebration of country life and communities celebrates its sixth year in 2010.
These nomination-led awards exist to highlight the characters, communities, heritage and enterprise of Britain’s beautiful countryside and the people who work to make it what it is.
A Taste Of England – 18th September-3rd October 2010
The biggest national celebration of the diverse & delicious range of food & drink that England produces.
The aim of the campaign is to increase awareness of the health benefits - & pleasures – of eating quality, fresh, seasonal & regional produce, and it is the perfect opportunity to sample the very best of what England has to offer.
Choosing English means supporting British farmers whose work helps to keep the countryside the way we want it to look: no sheep or cows = no countryside !
English food also travels less far from farm to shop so it has a lower carbon footprint.
Our English products are all highlighted on the shelves with red & white livery – so LOOK OUT FOR THE SIGNS and BUY the best food and drinks that are made in ENGLAND !
Our fabulous 75th Anniversary aprons – as modelled here by Katie, are now available to purchase for only £5 each.
You can buy directly from our Peasmarsh Superstore or anyone of our Jempson’s Cafe’s, alternatively you can email you order to aprons@jempsons.com and have it delivered to your door !! - (please note there will be a small £2.00 postage & packing charge).
These quality aprons have proven very popular, and the one worn below has made it all the way to Melbourne !!!
Back to School time is almost upon us already, and we have a dazzling array of essentials in-store to make sure that everything goes smoothly for the start of the new school year.
We have all your stationery needs from document wallets, calculators, cartridge pens, high lighters, hole punches, maths geometry sets, pens, pencils, Pritt sticks, refills pads, ring binders, rulers, rubbers, scissors and sharpeners amongst others.
There is no ‘could try harder’ with Jempson’s, we are your one stop A+ shop for Back to School stationery.
Jempson’s, helping you go back to school since 1935.
Our Jempson’s/Budgens supermarket in Battle mark our 75th Anniversary with a Fun Day that also heralded significant improvements within the store itself and also offered fundraising support as well as profile awareness to several local charities.
The day hosted a series of events throughout and attractions included a face painter, Latin style dance demonstration, Pimm’s tent, stalls, BBQ, competitions and a raffle.
There where stalls from Battle Area Community Transport and Brown Bread Horse Rescue amongst others, and the proceeds from the BBQ, along with the accompanying food, where donated to the Battle Bonfire Boyes, the town Mayor David Hussey attended to cut a specially commissioned Anniversary cake.
A local school competition was held to design a special ’75th Anniversary’ birthday card, prizes included a set of family tickets to Yesterday’s World, a group ticket for a Jempson’s Bakery Tour at the Peasmarsh Superstore and book vouchers.
The in-store raffle raised £200 which was donated to the Daniel Gamble Memorial Fund, who will use the donation for a much needed new War Memorial flag pole.
Adam Johnson Event Organiser said, ‘We had a wonderful day, and are delighted that our event helped raise awareness to some of our local charities as well as some much deserved fundraising. We would like to thank all of the local business that supported the day by way of donations and prizes, the local community and customers for their continued support’.
Stephen Jempson added ‘Our Battle supermarket has worked considerably hard recently to further improve the service we give our customers, and it gives us tremendous pleasure to be able to host events such as this to support the community in which we are proud to serve’.
We are delighted to announce that we will be one of the sponsors of this year’s Rye Arts Festival.
Rye Arts Festival is an exciting menu of cultural events packed into two weeks from 11th September to the 26th.
This years event promises to be as exciting as ever, and offers something for everyone, from classical music to films, folk and World music to art exhibitions, and dancing to literary talks and much more besides, and it gives us great pleasure to be able to offer support to what we believe will be a very successful festival.
For further information on the 2010 Rye Arts Festival and details of the forthcoming events, you can click on this link
On Tuesday 26th July our Peasmarsh Superstore and Jempson’s/Budgens supermarket in Rye where featured in the new ITV1 cookery programme ‘Ten Mile Menu’ which was broadcast across the UK.
The programme pits celebrities against one another in a unique fast-pace culinary challenge. Each show sees two teams who compete to produce the best three-course menu with locally sourced ingredients.
Celebrity Chef Paul Rankin and Jenni Falconer sourced some of their ingredients at our Rye Jempson’s/Budgens store, whilst our Peasmarsh Superstore played host to Chef Ed Baines and TV Adventurer Charley Boorman.
If you missed the show you can watch it again for the next 28 days on the ITV player – or simply click on this link
We will be hosting our own Cider Festival throughout September where you can taste a whole host of different cider varieties including the new popular added fruits flavours.
A big display will be found in the Fresh Fruit section amongst the apples !
There will be special tasting days, and our local Biddenden Cider will be featured and a member of the team from Biddenden Vineyards will be visiting the Peasmarsh Superstore.
To coincide with the festival and all things apple related, all of our fresh food departments will be getting involved too, from the Delicatessen we will be launching a new apple flavoured ham, from the butchery sausages with apple and there will even be a special apple flavoured bread !
