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Countryside South
Countryside South
Set in The Heart of Lincolnshire is a bustling market town with a long and varied history
Just south of the city of Lincoln is the Countryside South area, this is rural England at its very best – a perfect base to make the most of Lincolnshire’s incredible aviation heritage and historic landscapes. The area covers Sleaford and Woodhall Spa, and is home to a range of businesses including leading edge SHD Composites, food manufacturer Tulip, the National Golf Centre and the world's largest producer of chlorophyll!
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There are hundreds of different jobs you could do in Lincolnshire. Here are just a few …

Chef
Chefs prepare, cook and present food.
Chef
Role Description
You could work in hotels, restaurants, pubs, schools, colleges, cruise ships, the NHS or the armed forces.
In a small kitchen you may be a general chef. In a large kitchen you may be a specialist chef, in charge of one area like pastry, fish or vegetables, working under a head chef.
Your day-to-day tasks will vary with your role, but may include:
- preparing attractive menus to nutritional standards
- controlling and ordering stock and inspecting it on delivery
- gutting and preparing animals and fish for cooking
- scraping and washing large quantities of vegetables and salads
- cooking and presenting food creatively
- monitoring production to maintain quality and consistent portion sizes
- working under pressure to make sure food is served on time
- keeping to hygiene, health and safety and licensing rules
- You’ll need knowledge of allergens, nutrition and diets.

Salary Guide
Minimum: £13000
Maximum: £50000

Joiner
Carpenters and joiners make and install wooden structures, fittings and furniture.
Joiner
Role Description
You’ll work as an employee or a self-employed contractor for large and small construction companies. You may work on a construction site, a client’s premises, or in your own workshop.
Depending on where you work, your day-to-day tasks may include:
- discussing plans and following instructions
- cutting and shaping timber for floorboards, doors, skirting boards and window frames
- making and fitting wooden structures like staircases, door frames, roof timbers and partition walls
- making and assembling fitted and free-standing furniture
- installing kitchens, cupboards and shelving
- building temporary wooden supports to hold setting concrete in place (shuttering)
- making and fitting interiors in shops, bars, restaurants, offices and public buildings
- constructing stage sets for theatre, film and TV productions

Salary Guide
Minimum: £16000
Maximum: £40000

Order Picker
Order pickers select the products that online customers choose.
Order Picker
Role Description
1. Entry requirements
There are no set requirements, but a good standard of general education is important, including GCSEs in maths and English. Computer skills will also be useful for using online sales systems and scanners.
You could get into this job through an apprenticeship.
2. Skills required
You’ll need:
good timekeeping skills
the ability to work quickly and accurately
a well organised approach
3. What you'll do
Your day-to-day tasks may include:
selecting items to match the customer’s order sheet
using voice-activated picking machines and scanners
requesting freshly made items from in-house departments like bakeries
checking product quality
choosing suitable replacements where stock has sold out
packing items ready for despatch
updating customer records on computer systems
helping customers if working in-store
4. Salary
Starter: £14,000 to £17,000
Experienced: £18,000 to £20,000
Highly Experienced: £23,000
You may receive higher pay for night shifts or meeting targets.
5. Working hours, patterns and environment
You’ll usually work up to 40 hours a week on shifts, which may include weekends and nights.
You’ll be based in a warehouse, distribution centre or larger retail store. The job can be physically demanding and you could work in cool temperatures, for example in chiller rooms.
You’ll need your own transport to get to work when shifts fall outside normal public transport hours.
6. Career path and progression
With experience, you could become a shift supervisor then move into section or warehouse management.
You could also become a delivery driver if you work for a supermarket.

Salary Guide
Minimum: £14000
Maximum: £23000

HGV Driver
Large goods vehicle (LGV) and heavy goods vehicle (HGV) lorry drivers transport and deliver goods between suppliers and customers.
HGV Driver
Role Description
1. Entry requirements
You'll need to be over 18 and hold a full car driving licence.
You can apply for a job as a trainee with a freight company or complete an LGV course with a private training provider. You'll also need a Certificate of Professional Competence (Driver CPC).
You could get into this job through an apprenticeship.
2. Skills required
You'll need:
excellent driving skills and road safety knowledge
the ability to work alone and concentrate for long periods
a polite manner with customers
the ability to complete record sheets and paperwork accurately
3. What you'll do
You'll drive commercial vehicles over 7.5 tonnes, including articulated lorries, tankers, transporters and trailer wagons. You'll work from depots, distribution centres and warehouses, carrying goods all over the UK and overseas.
Apart from driving, your duties may include:
planning delivery schedules and routes with transport managers
supervising or helping to load and unload goods
making sure loads are safely secured
following traffic reports and changing your route if necessary
completing delivery paperwork and log books
You may also deal with basic maintenance, like oil, tyre and brake checks before and after journeys.
4. Salary
Starter: £18,500 to £22,000
Experienced: £23,000 to £28,000
Highly Experienced: £27,000 to £35,000
Overtime may be available.
These figures are a guide.
5. Working hours, patterns and environment
You'll usually work up to 42 hours a week. Overtime may be available but there are strict laws about the amount of hours you can spend driving between rest breaks.
Most of your time would be spent on the road, and you would drive day and night in all weather conditions.
Overnight stays may be necessary.
6. Career path and progression
You could take further training and gain an ADR (Advisory Dangerous Goods by Road) Certificate to drive hazardous goods like toxic chemicals by tanker.
With experience, you could train to become an LGV instructor, freight transport planner or move into management.

Salary Guide
Minimum: £18500
Maximum: £35000

Kitchen Assistant
Kitchen assistants do basic food preparation, make sure chefs have everything they need and keep the kitchen clean.
Kitchen Assistant
Role Description
1. Entry requirements
There are no entry set requirements, but a good general secondary education would be useful.
Experience of working in a kitchen, in hospitality or a catering service may also be helpful.
You could complete a college qualification in catering, but this isn't essential.
You could get into this job through an apprenticeship.
2. Skills required
You'll need:
the ability to carry out tasks quickly and competently
the ability to pick up detailed instructions quickly and follow them closely
good spoken communication skills
3. What you'll do
Your day-to-day duties could include:
supporting chefs in a specific work section
washing, peeling and preparing food items
using a variety of kitchen equipment such as mixers, special knives and cutters.
unloading deliveries
organising the storeroom
washing kitchen appliances, work surfaces, floors and walls
4. Salary
Starter: £11,500 to £12,500
Experienced: up to £16,500
These figures are a guide.
5. Working hours, patterns and environment
You'll usually work shifts, evenings, weekends and public holidays. If you're based at a factory or catering business, your hours are likely to be more regular than in a restaurant. Part-time, casual or seasonal work may be available.
Your working environment will often be hot, busy and noisy. You may find this work unsuitable if you suffer from certain skin conditions.
You'll usually be provided with a uniform.
6. Career path and progression
With experience and further training, you could become a trainee or junior chef. You could also progress into management or move into bar work or food service.

Salary Guide
Minimum: £11500
Maximum: £16500

Web Designer
Web designers use their creative and technical skills to design new websites and redesign existing ones.
Web Designer
Role Description
Entry requirements
You don't always need qualifications to become a web designer, but you’ll usually need to show that you’ve got skills in:
visual design
UX (user experience)
SEO (search engine optimisation), marketing and social media
using coding software like HTML and CSS
using design software like Photoshop and Illustrator
You may also find it useful to have basic photo editing and copywriting skills.
Some employers will expect you to have a portfolio of work to show them, like websites you've worked on.
Colleges offer a wide range of courses, and there are lots of free online tutorials.
You could also take a college or higher education course in a web design or multimedia subject.
You may be able to get into this role through an apprenticeship.
Tech Future Careers has more information on tech roles including web design.
The UK Web Design Association (UKWDA) and Bubble Jobs have more information about becoming a web designer.
Skills required
You’ll need:
strong creative skills
the ability to pay attention to detail
good problem-solving skills and a logical approach to work
the ability to explain technical matters clearly
an ability to work to deadlines
What you'll do
You could work on any kind of website, from education to shopping. You’ll often be responsible for managing the design of your client’s other online services like mobile applications, social media accounts and digital marketing campaigns.
Your day-to-day duties might include:
meeting clients to discuss what they want their site to do
preparing a design plan
deciding which branding, text, colours and backgrounds to use
laying out pages and positioning buttons, links and pictures using design software
adding multimedia features like sound, animation and video
testing and improving the design and site
uploading the site to a server
You’ll work closely with web developers and marketing professionals.
Salary
Starter: £18,000 to £24,000
Experienced: £25,000 to £40,000 (more in senior roles)
Self-employed web designers set their own rates.
These figures are a guide.
Working hours, patterns and environment
You’ll normally work 37 hours a week, Monday to Friday. You may have to work extra hours to meet deadlines or when there are problems with a website.
If you’re self-employed, you’ll set your own working hours.
You’ll work indoors in an office or in your own home at a computer. You may spend some of your time travelling to meet clients.
Career path and progression
With experience you could move into design team management or expand your skills to become a web content manager.
You might work towards a move into business management.
You could also work as a freelance web designer, or set up your own web design business.

Salary Guide
Minimum: £18000
Maximum: £40000

Road haulage load planner
Road haulage load planners control the transfer of goods around the country’s road transport network.
Road haulage load planner
Role Description
1. Entry requirements
There are no set entry requirements but employers may look for:
IT skills for using spreadsheets
GCSEs in English and maths, or an equivalent level 2 qualification
experience of working in transport or distribution a background in stock control or administration
You could also get into this job through an apprenticeship.
2. Skills required
You’ll need:
customer service and communication skills
problem solving skills and the ability to adapt plans
negotiating skills
geographical knowledge
the ability to work under pressure and to meet deadlines
3. What you'll do
You’ll make sure freight is moved in the most efficient way around the country’s road network. You’ll need to take into account schedules, costs, and health and safety.
You might work for a road haulage company or other business with their own fleet of vehicles, like a retail chain.
Your day-to-day duties could include:
deciding how many vehicles will be needed to deliver each shipment of goods
working out how much it will cost to make each delivery
planning the safest way to load and unload goods
monitoring each delivery as it makes its journey
reviewing load plans with clients
making backup plans to cover changes in circumstances
You might also use computer software packages to help with some of these tasks, for example, to match the size of loads with the vehicles needed to move them.
4. Salary
Starter: £16,000 to £19,000
Experienced: £20,000 to £28,000
These figures are a guide.
5. Working hours, patterns and environment
You’ll often work shifts on a rota, including early mornings and late nights.
You’ll usually be based in an office within a warehouse or distribution depot.
6. Career path and progression
You could progress to senior or regional load planner, or, with qualifications, you could move into distribution, supply chain or transport management.

Salary Guide
Minimum: £16000
Maximum: £28000

Journalist
Journalists research and write news articles and features for a wide variety of publications on different platforms.
Journalist
Role Description
Magazine Journalist:
Your day-to-day tasks may include:
- going to meetings to plan the content of the magazine
- suggesting ideas for articles
- interviewing and researching to collect information for articles
- writing articles to suit the magazine’s style
- keeping up-to-date with developments and trends in the magazine's subject area
- working as a critic, reviewing things like films, food or concerts
Newspaper Journalist
You could be reporting on council meetings and school fêtes for a local paper, or on general elections and world events for the national press.
Your day-to-day tasks may include:
- investigating a story as soon as it breaks
- following up potential leads and developing new contacts
- interviewing people face-to-face and over the phone
- attending press conferences
- recording meetings and interviews using recording equipment or shorthand
- coming up with ideas for stories and features
- writing up articles in a style that will appeal to the reader
- sub-editing other reporters' articles for publication
- writing up articles for online publication
Broadcast Journalist
You could be reporting on council meetings and school fêtes for a local paper, or on general elections and world events for the national press.
Your day-to-day tasks may include:
- investigating a story as soon as it breaks
- following up potential leads and developing new contacts
- interviewing people face-to-face and over the phone
- attending press conferences
- recording meetings and interviews using recording equipment or shorthand
- coming up with ideas for stories and features
- writing up articles in a style that will appeal to the reader
- sub-editing other reporters' articles for publication
- writing up articles for online publication

Salary Guide
Minimum: £13000
Maximum: £40000
Employers in Countryside South

Water Management Alliance
Whether you work for us as a digger driver or as a member of the senior management team, there will be a considerable variety of challenges in your diverse workload and you will be offered real opportunities for career development.
Water Management Alliance

The Water Management Alliance
The Water Management Alliance (WMA) is a group of like-minded Internal Drainage Boards (known as IDBs) operating in the Anglian Region. We are building resource and capacity in the Anglian region in order to meet the challenges of climate change, sustainable water and flood risk management. The WMA works closely with our IDB’s, partners, communities and individuals to secure new funding streams and deliver innovative approaches at a local level.
We welcome partnership approaches and aim to deliver value for money projects using local expertise and experience.
Did you know Internal Drainage Boards…?
- date back some 900 years and are one of Europe’s oldest water management organisations.
- have statutory powers to undertake flood defence and water management works.
- aim to manage water levels and flood risk management for people and wildlife sustainably and aim to limit impacts of flood and drought within their drainage districts.
- are collectively one of the biggest managers of freshwaters and wetlands in the UK.
- manage drainage districts that cover 10% of the land in England and Wales.
- manage and maintain over 500 pumping stations, 22,000 km of watercourse and numerous sluices and weirs for people and wildlife.
The Water Management Alliance works for and on behalf of other Flood Risk Management Authorities as well as community groups, NGO’s and landowners. We also deliver significant flood risk management benefits and enhanced environmental outcomes on the ground. Our members are all independent and democratically accountable statutory bodies who seek to protect some 548,000 hectares in East Anglia.
The WMA Eastern Drainage Boards include the Broads IDB, East Suffolk IDB and the Norfolk Rivers IDB.
South Holland:
This includes some of the most fertile arable land in the world and is widely recognised as the bread basket of Britain. The area is home to around 60,000 people, a thriving local economy and an increasingly popular tourist destination that attracts visitors from around the country. The area is both locally and nationally important and worth the cost of defending and protecting, now and in future.
Although the entire area is at considerable theoretical risk of river flooding and inundation from the sea, the actual risk is substantially reduced by the work that we do in partnership with Local Authorities, the Environment Agency and Natural England.
The area's full watershed catchment area draining to the Drainage District is the same as the Drainage District, which means that we can provide a better service than we might otherwise be able to: this is because we are not compelled to take surface water from outside the Drainage District that we have no control over. This gives us an advantage in being able to protect the people of South Holland and reduce the risk of flooding.
If you choose to work for the WMA or any of its Member Boards you will be joining an organisation which is striving to provide employees with a positive employment experience. Whether you work for us as a digger driver or as a member of the senior management team, there will be a considerable variety of challenges in your diverse workload and you will be offered real opportunities for career development.
To find out more about the WMA follow them on @The_WMA

P3
We absolutely love what we do, and we’re passionate about the way we do it, and we’re looking for people who share this attitude.
P3

We’re a charity and social enterprise, made up of passionate people, who care about people. We exist to improve lives and communities by delivering services for socially excluded and vulnerable people to unlock their potential and open up new possibilities.
Our vision is that every person has the opportunity to be a full and valued member of a society where social exclusion and isolation no longer exist. It’s that simple!
Everything we do is centred on our core values - being innovative, different, creative, focused entirely on being helpful in everything we do, being passionate about the people we work with, our determination to tackle problems that others won’t, and working together as one team.
P3 services are highly diverse; we operate housing services, community-based support, advice and guidance service
Apprenticeships too!
At P3, we have a track record in supporting apprentices to gain their qualifications, on-the-job experience and in many cases, go on to permanent employment.
Not only will you get training as you work, you will also be able to study for a qualification in your chosen subject; earning while you are learning. We will provide you with a buddy who will support you while you settle into the role. They will be an existing member of staff who has experience in the area that you are working in.

Jarell Group
The Jarell Group have over 3000 employees Nationwide and operate across locations in the North, Midlands & south of the country.
Jarell Group

Jarell Group are a collective of professional service organisations focusing on the workforce solutions marketplace. The Jarell Group incorporates in excess of 100 years’ worth of experience in the recruitment and training sectors.
We identify best practice, highlight new trends and encourage communication and collaboration between members. The Jarell group draws on industry experts working for large & small B2B organisations.
As a group of highly experienced professionals, our people redefine best practice on a daily basis. For now, we’re focusing on the recruitment, technology and payroll sectors, with transformative solutions, systems and software.
Our collective insights, skills and talents are streamlining administration, saving time and improving bottom lines for companies and brands across the UK, as well as offering individuals a better way to find and manage their employment, or get a better deal on loans or logistics

Barkston Refinishing
A traditional body shop in Grantham, passionate about cars and apprenticeships.
Barkston Refinishing

What do we do? Barkston Refinishing is a traditional bodyshop. That means that we are able to repair anything that is part of or attached to the vehicle body. This includes bonnets, roofs, glass, wings, doors, quarter panels, boot lids, sills, door mirrors you name it!
All productive staff have been apprentice trained and qualified to city & guilds / NVQ3.
Meet the team:
David (Company Director) has been working on cars since the age of 11 when he first got behind the steering wheel of a 1956 Morris Isis and learned to drive around the yard at the family home. Apprenticed in 1971 for five years and still learning 37 years later , proud to have worked with some real tradesmen. During that time the job has seen many changes mostly good, but sadly some things not so. Every day brings a new challenge, sometimes frustration, but always satisfaction and pride.
Andy has shadowed his brother Dave since he left school with a few variations of employers but shares the same love of the job. He joined Barkston Refinishing in May 1983 and celebrates 35 years with the company this year.
Paul son of David was born to spray. Loves to paint something different and wants to hear from you! Normally nobody sees the efforts of his labour as his job is to repair the car so that no one can tell its been done. Give him something different to do and make him happy!
Rosemarie married David in 1977 and still loves him. – what a woman! Rosemarie mans the office on a Friday and generally looks after the money. She is a pussycat most of the time but is feared in accounts departments and by debtors who dare to exceed our credit terms without telling her
Adam has loved classic cars every since he was 11 when he built a 1976 Triumph Spitfire 1500 from a bare shell upwards and every since he was ready to do anything with a car from learning how to paint it to how to do bodywork on it from welding to panel beating, Adam is our apprentice, joined in September 2016 and is making a good start to his career

Dappledown House Nursery
Building careers and developing children.
Dappledown House Nursery

Dappledown is based in an original village Old school with a pony and paddock as neighbours. Pauline Morgan took over Dappledown House Nursery in 2012 and it has flourished further ever since.
We offer a warm, nurturing environment with fully trained and experienced staff. Unique stunning views as well as our large outdoor play area, enable the children to take full advantage of our countryside environment.

Lincolnshire Talent Academy
The Academy delivers proactive services to aid recruitment and skills development of our current and future workforce, whilst also ensuring the portability and integration of skills across the health and care system.
Lincolnshire Talent Academy

The Talent Academy concept was originally formed in June 2015 as an initiative by United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust to support engagement of younger people into its workforce.
Due to its success, the Academy evolved in April 2016 incorporating its Lincolnshire stakeholders to strengthen and support local partnership and the benefits of collaboration.
Today, the Lincolnshire Talent Academy is an umbrella body made up of health and care organisations within the County. Led by United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust, the Academy represents a wide range of stakeholders from the health and care sector.
What do we do?
The Academy delivers proactive services to aid recruitment and skills development of our current and future workforce, whilst also ensuring the portability and integration of skills across the health and care system.
As employers, we work with students, schools, colleges and universities in addition to other agencies such as the DWP to provide services for individuals from the age of 14 and above, all of which are delivered in partnership though our stakeholders. Our remit includes careers inspiration activities incorporating the engagement of the education sector and delivery of careers guidance and work experience, through to the management of apprenticeship training and support for apprenticeship trailblazer standards development across our stakeholders.
With a common shared goal across all stakeholders – to adopt a “grow our own” culture within the county, the Lincolnshire Talent Academy provides the foundation for our collaborative approach to the engagement, recruitment and development of talent within the Health and Care community.

Lincolnshire Community and Voluntary Service
Our core purpose is to help individuals, particularly at transition points in their lives, improve their mental and physical health and well-being and choose healthier lifestyles.
Lincolnshire Community and Voluntary Service

Who we are – strengthening communities, supporting individuals
Lincolnshire Community and Voluntary Service (LCVS) promotes volunteering through its four accredited Volunteer Centres - in Boston, Manby (near Louth), Spalding and Grantham, matching would-be volunteers with opportunities and supporting volunteer involving organisations to recruit, train and retain volunteers.
LCVS is a charity working to support the health and wellbeing of communities and individuals.
It supports community groups to get established, survive and thrive by providing help and guidance with paperwork and governance, resources, sourcing funding and finding and training volunteers.
In addition, LCVS delivers and enables health-related community projects.
Find LCVS at www.lincolnshirecvs.org.uk

Strutt & Parker
Helping people lead the lives they aspire to, we aim to ensure our people achieve their own ambitions.
Strutt & Parker

Our people are approachable and trustworthy - true specialists, for whom reputation, relationships, innovation and service is balanced with intelligence, knowledge, professionalism and a thoughtful approach to work.
Graduate Programme
Strutt & Parker’s residential, rural, development and planning teams will continue to operate under the Strutt & Parker brand, whilst the commercial arm of the business will operate under the BNP Paribas Real Estate brand.
Every year we hand-pick a number of Graduates who we believe have the ambition and talent to play a key part in the future of our expanding business.
Respect
As a partnership we have a culture of respect for each other’s knowledge and expertise. We educate, train and nurture our people, and actively engage in social programmes.
Trust
One of our core values is based on the trust placed in us by our clients and by our colleagues. We actively seek to avoid conflicts of interest. Over the changing landscape of the past 125 years, we have grown and developed into new disciplines.
True Partnership
The partnership between ourselves, our staff and our clients has always been at the heart of what we do. An encapsulation of our beliefs, it informs how we conduct ourselves as a business and as individuals.
Delivery
We ensure we deliver our services diligently, creatively and intelligently, with an absolute focus on our clients. We like to celebrate our past successes, whilst keeping our focus on the future.
Professional
We apply the highest standards of expertise to all our activities to achieve the best results. Our working environments are fun and friendly, while also professional and hardworking.
Involvement
Ours is a collaborative environment which encourages ideas, innovation and discussion. Supported through the opportunities of progression and personal development, our people tend to stay with us for many years.

Frontier Agriculture
Frontier Agriculture is the UK's leading crop production and grain marketing business, recognised for its close customer relationships with farmers and grain consumers and its successful management of the arable supply chain.
Frontier Agriculture

Frontier Agricutlures head office is based in Witham St Hughs, south west of Lincoln.
Frontier’s values are integrity, customer focus and expertise. This means choosing to do the right thing for customers, colleagues and ourselves and collaborating to put the customer at the heart of everything we do.
Frontier people use their skills, training and expertise for the benefit of customers. Frontier encourages, supports and rewards colleagues who consistently demonstrate its values when dealing with each other and customers. The company operates a reward and recognition scheme built around celebrating colleagues who demonstrate exceptional performance as measured against the company values.
Frontier is primarily an organisation built on providing advice and services to customers. This would not be possible without attracting, retaining and developing the most talented people. Frontier expects and supports all colleagues to be the very best that they can. In pursuit of this the company invests heavily in learning and development programmes delivered both in-house and by industry recognised bodies. These cover a wide range of vocational and non-vocational areas including:
- Job specific training – all technical advisors are supported in gaining relevant industry qualifications including FACTS and BASIS.
- More Frontier agronomists hold the highly prestigious BASIS Diploma than at any other business
- Health and safety training
- Driver training – all fleet, delivery and company car drivers are regularly assessed by driver trainers, with fleet drivers required to complete recognised annual training.
- Executive Development Programme - bespoke development opportunities for senior managers, to support career progression and harness their contribution to delivering the business’ strategy
- Leadership Development Programme –Developing managers to better lead, coach and empower their own teams
- Personal skill development – Frontier offers a rolling calendar of general learning opportunities open to all colleagues. As well as training in the use of software such as Microsoft Office applications, these include other courses aimed at improving people’s personal skill set such as ‘speaking with confidence’, ‘overcoming difficult situations’ and ‘getting things done’.
Frontier provides all colleagues with regular performance and development reviews. This is an opportunity for people to identify and agree potential areas for future development with their manager.
Frontier is the largest crop production and grain marketing company in the UK, formed in 2005 as a joint venture between Associated British Foods and Cargill plc. We employ 1,000 people and turn over £1.5 billion. Our vision is to be the first choice partner for crop production and grain marketing, and the first choice employer in UK agriculture.
Our business approach is underpinned by our values of ICE – integrity, customer focus and expertise – which drive our behaviour and are key to our success.Our ambition is to grow our business and we intend to do it responsibly, doing things properly because it’s the right thing to do.
We will use our expertise, our scale and our leadership position to make a difference to others. Some companies call this sustainability. At Frontier, we call it the responsible choice.

Interflora
We are proud to be the world’s largest and most experienced flower delivery network.
Interflora

Interflora is based in Sleaford, Lincolnshire.
Every day, thousands of people trust us to deliver their good wishes and thoughtful sentiments on their behalf. But it's not just about being the largest - we pride ourselves on being the most personable too.
Everyone involved - from our florists, to our delivery drivers, to our customer advisors - all take care to add a little personal touch to the Interflora experience.
We're also proud that so many award-winning florists choose to be part of the Interflora family. Each of our expert florists has the unique blend of skills, creativity and attention to detail needed to create every handmade Interflora bouquet.

Branston
From our sites in Lincoln, Scotland and the South West, we supply retail, wholesale and food manufacturing customers with fresh and ready prepared potatoes. We do all this with the help of dedicated and professional potato growers who deliver the high standards we demand, day in, day out.
Branston

Still a privately owned company, over the years we’ve continued to grow, invest and succeed. We’re as focused as ever on our fresh potato business, while continuing to build on the success of our innovative prepared vegetable ranges. From our sites in Lincoln, Scotland and the South West, we supply retail, wholesale and food manufacturing customers with fresh and ready prepared potatoes
Our Main Board members have a wealth of experience – from farming right through to retail – and they continue to set the strategic direction for the business. They’re supported by the Executive Board, whose diverse range of expertise helps them to take that direction and work out how to turn the plans into reality. And the whole thing is underpinned by the 700-strong team of people who keep everything moving – day in and day out.
Whether running our factories and offices or looking after our growers and customers we’re all passionate about what we do and about how we do it. From maintaining our stringent Environmental Policy to ensuring that we provide safe and ethical working conditions for everyone in our supply chain through the UK Modern Slavery Act, everything we do is guided by a shared vision of ‘How we do business’. Supported by our values, this is what drives our actions every day.
The relationship we have with every single one of our suppliers is incredibly important to us and we pride ourselves on our ability to develop partnerships based on mutual trust. It’s an extremely important part of our approach to business.
We work with all sorts of suppliers: specialist niche growers supplying very small quantities, family farms, large farming businesses supplying huge tonnages, growers supplying in tight seasonal windows and overseas suppliers filling the gaps that our home crop cannot fill.

National Centre of Food Manufacturing - University of Lincoln
The NCFM is dedicated to helping food industry employees advance their careers. We understand the demands of studying while working in this fast moving, dynamic industry and balancing family commitments. Our part-time Degree Apprenticeships provide one of many flexible study options for those working in Quality, Technical roles and Operations Management.
National Centre of Food Manufacturing - University of Lincoln

The NCFM is dedicated to helping food industry employees advance their careers. We understand the demands of studying while working in this fast moving, dynamic industry and balancing family commitments. Our part-time Degree Apprenticeships provide one of many flexible study options for those working in Quality, Technical roles and Operations Management.
The NCFM is also committed to helping the sector innovate. We work with employers and partners towards this goal, aided by our partnership with leading equipment suppliers and our outstanding specialist facilities, food factory and cutting-edge automation.
NCFM offer a range of opportunities for business and employees. These cover opportunities for studying apprenticeships and degree apprenticeships, research and innovation.

Did You Know?
Amazing Lincolnshire!
Did you know that Lincoln was listed as one of the top 20 worldwide visitor destinations by the Daily Telegraph in 2015?
Did You Know?
Amazing Lincolnshire!
Did you know that Lincoln was listed as one of the top 20 worldwide visitor destinations by the Daily Telegraph in 2015?
