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Over the years Oakhouse have celebrated events around the UK in all sorts of ways - most recently with beautiful mugs to celebrate the wedding of William & Kate. But for the Diamond Jubilee we wanted to do something which will have more lasting impact, so we have decided to donate money to Barnardo’s, one of the UK charities of which The Queen is Patron. Barnardo’s run over 800 UK projects that transform the lives of more than 190,000 children and young people every year and they need regular donations to fund this fantastic work. So we’ve put together this Jubilee Pack, featuring a mouth-watering selection of some of our most delicious meals and desserts. For each pack sold we’ll make a donation to Barnardo’s.

Competition Winners Congratulations to Sheila Sloan who has won our Jubilee tea pot and mugs. The two runners up are Frank Wilbury and Claire Grigg who will both receive a set of Jubilee tea towels. Many thanks to all of you who entered the competition. Don't worry we will be running another competition in t

Asparagus: A perennial, asparagus are spear-like shoots that come in three main varieties: green, the most common; white, for which the green variety is field blanched; and purple, an extra sweet and tender variety that turns green when cooked. Whilst imported asparagus can be found on supermarket shelves year-round, it’s the native crop that really gets us excited, and British asparagus's short-lived season, spanning just six to eight weeks, makes it the most eagerly awaited springtime food. However, after an unusually wet March and cool April it means that this year there is even more of a demand!

Tea loses its youth appeal The great British cuppa could be a dying tradition as just 4% of tea drinkers are under 25’s, according to the Independent online. The newspaper reports the findings of a survey carried out amongst the British public, which found that 8 out of 10 of us Brits rely on a cup of tea to get us through the day but that more than 50% of tea drinkers were over the age of 45. Apparently 3.5 billion cups of tea are drunk each year in the workplace too but at Oakhouse Foods we think there’s nothing better than a good cuppa so we won’t be giving ours up any time soon!