Growth Partners are commercial organisations that benefit from a stronger cheese sector and want to help make useful growth activity possible.
By contributing funding, expertise, reach or resources, Growth Partners help support shared campaigns, tools, research and practical activity that individual cheese businesses may struggle to fund or deliver alone.
Support the sector you depend on
When cheesemakers, mongers and other cheese businesses grow, the organisations supplying and supporting them benefit too.
Growth Partnership gives commercial organisations a practical way to put some of that value back into the sector.
It is more than sponsorship. The aim is to help fund useful activity, contribute relevant knowledge and build stronger relationships through genuine participation.
Growth Partnership should create value in both directions, but it is not designed as a lead-generation package.
Who is Growth Partnership for?
Growth Partnership may be a good fit for organisations such as:
- Packaging suppliers
- Ingredients and cultures businesses
- Equipment and machinery providers
- Logistics, distribution and cold-chain businesses
- Finance and insurance providers
- Energy and sustainability specialists
- Retail and wholesale support businesses
- Events and exhibitions
- Other commercial suppliers to the cheese sector
If your main offer is specialist professional services or a technology platform, Delivery Partner or Technology Partner may be a better fit.
What do Growth Partners contribute?
Financial contribution is normally a central part of Growth Partnership because it helps fund activity for the wider Network.
Depending on your organisation, you might also contribute:
- Specialist knowledge or experience
- Research or useful data
- Campaign support
- Tools or resources
- Event support
- Promotional reach
- Staff time
- Connections and introductions
- Support for a Mission or Working Group
The exact contribution can be agreed around where your organisation can create the most useful value.
What do Growth Partners get?
Growth Partnership gives your organisation a closer relationship with The Cheese Network and the businesses it exists to support.
Depending on the partnership, this may include:
- Recognition as a Growth Partner
- A partner profile on The Cheese Network
- Appropriate recognition around activity you support
- Participation in relevant Community activity
- Visibility of Network Missions and priorities
- Opportunities to contribute useful expertise
- Relevant partner discussions and briefings
- Opportunities to support Campaigns, Working Groups or Shared Projects
Partnership does not provide access to member contact data, guaranteed leads or control over Network priorities.
Become a Growth Partner
Growth Partnership starts with a conversation.
Tell us how your organisation works with the cheese sector, what you would like to support and what you could contribute. We can then agree whether Growth Partnership is the right fit and what the relationship should look like.
Interested in becoming a Growth Partner? Get in touch.