We, The Lancashire Mead Company, have built our business on our ethical principles and beliefs. All our direct suppliers are family run, independent businesses, many within the Lancashire and Greater Manchester areas. This inputs money directly into local economies and keeps local people employed – we literally help to pay for dance lessons etc rather than a holiday home for an already well-paid CEO.

We have total transparency about our ingredients and production methods – including the mistakes – you only have to check out our social media channels! We list all of our ingredients on the bottle, in the brochure and on our website. This enables anyone, like Mrs Mead, who has dietary and allergy issues to enjoy our products safely.

Our honey supplier, Paul and his family, are based in Galgate. They have found some great honey producers throughout the world and the natural changes we see in our supply, shows the integrity of the products we use. This is seen in the changes of colour and flavour of every batch of mead we make. Our honey is certified and unadulterated. Without the integrity of our major ingredient, we would not have the premium products we have today.

Sue, our packaging supplier, has worked tirelessly to help us reduce the amount of packaging needed to transport our products safely and securely. We have bespoke packaging, designed especially for us, reducing our cardboard content by around 40% and completely removing the need for additional plastic packaging.

We have supported a number of smaller, local charities since we began in 2013.

2016 saw us take part in the charity photoshoot ‘Project 22’, undertaken by local photographer John Bentley supporting Lagan’s Foundation. The picture of us we use in our brochure was taken during this project.

We had a large mead delivery go horribly wrong in 2017. It ended up being kindly taken in by the staff at the RNLI station in Eastbourne. During our conversations with the lovely RNLI team, it became apparent they were desperately short of cash and were frantically fundraising. We donated the delivery to the Eastbourne station, to include in their fundraising efforts. Our products went down rather well and managed to raise a lot more money than the original value!

The meadery is rather close to the fires up on Winter Hill that occurred during the summer of 2018. A ‘Big Thank You’ event was held by The Groundwork Trust for all the rescue personnel involved. We were more than happy to sponsor the lights for this event.

2020 saw the introduction of our Jarl’s Mead in February, raising funds for Checkemlads/Testicular Cancer UK in memory of our friend, and brand ambassador, Gordon Hannington.  We raised £1380 for Checkemlads in less than six months and the popularity of the chilli flavour means we are keeping it to raise money for a different charity every year.  See the product listing for full details of the charities helped.