News Release: 5th March 2013
Dorset
Seafood Festival Announces Dorset Echo as Media Partner
The Dorset Echo is
announced as one of the main media partners of this year’s Dorset Seafood
Festival, 13th & 14th July. The event will take over the picturesque
setting of Weymouth Harbour for the sixth year to deliver the UK’s largest free
seafood street food festival. The Dorset Echo will play an important role in
driving awareness for the event across it vast news platforms. As a celebration
of the sea and all its bounty the event will once again be supported by title
sponsor Pommery Champagne for the third consecutive year. Taking place over two
days the Dorset Seafood Festival brings together celebrity and local chefs,
over 80 stalls serving freshly cooked seafood dishes and, for the first time
this year, a collaborative pop-up cinema event of 20,000 Leagues under the Sea
with DJ and musicians providing the film’s soundtrack.
Weymouth Harbour provides
the perfect setting for the Dorset Seafood Festival; Pommery Champagne corks
are ready to pop again across pavement bars overlooking one of the UKs few
working harbours. Visitors will enjoy freshly shucked oysters whilst the aroma
of seafood being cooked around the harbour fills the air. Joining the
conviviality will be local chefs Mark Hix, Mat Follas, John Wright, Lesley
Waters, Russell Brown and from the South West Richard Bertinet, Matt Cook and
Duncan Lucas. These well known chefs will be demonstrating some of their
favourite fish dishes on the festival’s famous demonstration stages.
“We are delighted that
the Dorset Echo will once again be one of the main media partners of the Dorset
Seafood Festival. We are very appreciative of the coverage and awareness that
they deliver for this increasingly popular event. We are looking forward to
delivering a more extended and diverse programme this year, only made possible
with the support of our sponsors; Pommery Champagne, Weird Fish clothing, Roasting
Plank and Cono Sur Wines. Whilst enjoyment is at the heart of the event we also
are committed to raising much needed funds for our chosen charity The
Fishermen’s Mission. From last year’s event we were able to donate £12,539.60
to the charity,” commented Brian Cooper Dorset Seafood Festival committee
member.
For more information
about the event visit www.dorsetseafood.co.uk and for information on where to stay
visit http://www.visitweymouth.co.uk/
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Dorset Seafood Festival app is also available http://www.dorsetseafood.co.uk/pages.aspx/iPhone_App
Partner / Sponsor & Charity Information
The Fishermen’s Mission
The Fishermen’s Mission is the only fishermen’s
charity that provides emergency support alongside practical and emotional care.
It helps all fishermen, active or retired, and their families. It does this by:
- Offering immediate
assistance, day or night, to the families of fishermen who have been
killed or seriously injured
- Looking after the
survivors of fishing boat accidents· Helping injured or ill fishermen to find medical help· Finding emergency
housing and food if necessary
- Supporting
fishermen’s families in the case of illness, distress or financial
difficulties·
- Alleviating
loneliness by visiting retired fishermen and their families at home or in
hospital
- Offering welfare and
support to overseas fishermen, working in the UK fishing industry,
especially those who have to live onboard boats· Providing
Christian pastoral and practical help, including problems with debt,
sickness, bereavement, family
difficulties, debt and addiction problems.
- For more information
visit http://www.fishermensmission.org.uk
