NCB Business Update: Mini Budget & Energy Relief
Mini-Budget: Highlights for Butchers Today the Chancellor of the Exchequer delivered his Growth Plan 2022 to Parliament, we have pulled some of the key aspects together below Cut in basic rate of income tax to 19% from April 2023 Reverse recent rise in National Insurance (NI) from 6 November Annual investment allowance, the amount companies can […]
World Butchers Challenge Winners Announced!
After going knife-to-knife with a record 12 other countries at the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento, The Butcher Wolfpack of Germany were named the best butchers in the world at this year’s World Butchers’ Challenge, also known as the ‘Olympics of Meat’. The team of six butchers from Germany were awarded gold and received the […]
As yet another small abattoir closes – is time running out for locally produced meat?
Tomorrow, Glossop based butcher John Mettrick will turn off the lights in his small abattoir for the last time. The irony of the situation is not lost on him. As Chair of the Abattoir Sector Group, co-founded with National Craft Butchers, the Sustainable Food Trust, and others, he plays a key role in the fight […]
Call for Abattoir Apprentices
The Abattoir Worker Standard launched in 2018 has so far attracted less than 50 apprentices onto programme each year. The Standard attracts a funding value of £6,000 per apprentice paid direct to the training provider and this covers the full cost of the typical 15-month training programme that culminates with end point assessments that are […]