Key Features
Key Features of Doddington Dairy Ice Cream Award winning, premium ice cream, hand made on the family farm Simple real ingredients, sourced locally where possible No artificial colours or preservatives, free of GMO s Unique and innovative flavours The North East s Ice Cream Family run company, traceability from farm to freezer Consistent, reliable and high quality personal service You can contact us at : Doddington Dairy Ltd North Doddington Farm Wooler Northumberland NE71 6AN Tel: 01668 283 010 Fax: 01668 282 455 Email: enquiries@doddingtondairy.co.uk www.doddingtondairy.co.uk Social media: doddingtondairy
A potted history The Early Days The Maxwell family have been dairy farmers at Doddington in Northumberland for over 50 years, after moving from the west of Scotland. During the early 1990 s Neill, and his sister Margaret-Ann, used the raw milk to diversify into a specialist raw milk cheese business. Then in 1998 Neill, and wife Jackie, realised that difficulties continued to face dairy farmers and decided that they wanted to be in control of their own destiny. Against a background of falling milk prices Neill and Jackie started to experiment with ice cream recipes and, from their research, realised that not only could they produce superb ice cream but that there was no other company producing hand made ice cream, on a farm, between Yorkshire and Aberdeenshire. Thus Doddington Dairy Ice Cream was launched in August 2000. The Ice Cream People Members of the Maxwell family are involved in the whole ice cream making process from feeding and milking the cows, through to hand selecting and mixing the ingredients, then to packaging and delivering the ice cream. We believe that this personal commitment gives our customer the finest quality product and 100% service at all times. All ice cream cartons carry the distinctive Doddington Dairy branding, with the 120ml and 500ml core range of cartons carrying cartoon characters based on the adventures of the Doddington Dairy family. Our biggest asset is our people and everyone is involved in developing the business direction. Doddington Dairy uses a combination of in-house staff training and external formalised courses (particularly related to food hygiene). Our aim is to produce quality products from only the best of ingredients - fully traceable from farm to freezer The Farm Situated in the beautiful Glendale Valley, overlooked by the Cheviot Hills, North Doddington is a traditional Northumbrian mixed farm. In the cool, clean air of the valley the dairy cows are able to happily graze and produce the fresh whole milk for the cheeses and ice creams of the Doddington Dairy. A sheep flock and some cereal enterprises complement the dairy farm. The working farm is tenanted by the Maxwell farmily and is owned by Greenwich Hospital Estates. This ensures jobs for 5 people on the farm, and 8 full time and 4 part time in the Doddington Dairy ice cream and cheese enterprises.
Why we re top of the pots Customer Service and Delivery Customer service has been, and continues to be, integral to the success of our business. We have regular deliveries around the North of England and southern Scotland in our own branded freezerr vans, national distribution is available. There are various ways you can contact us By Telephone 01668 283 010 By email enquiries@doddingtondairy.co.uk Social media: doddingtondairy The office is staffed by Elaine, Monday to Thursday 9am-5pm, and outside these hours a message can be left on the answerphone. We will endeavour to return your call as quickly as possible. If you need to speak to someone urgently Neill Maxwell can be contacted on his mobile 07900 910 657. Awards Since the launch in 2000 Doddington Dairy has gained many awards: 2015 Nominated for BBC Radio 4 Food and Farming Awards Best Producer 2009 Roman Ice Creams selected to be part of the global innovation section at IFE, March 2009 2007 Daily Telegraph s Taste of Britain Silver Award for the Heather Honey Ice Cream in Best UK Food Product 2006 Rose ice cream is Top of the Ice Cream Taste Test by the Observer s Food Magazine 2006 Great Taste Gold Award for Rose Ice Cream 2006 UK Winner of Sial d Or Award, in Paris, for Rose Ice Cream 2005 Taste of North East England from One North East s Tourism Awards 2005 From a Flower Range is voted one of The Grocer Magazines Our Favourites in the Top Ten Products Survey 2004 Winner of NE Region NFU s Farm Retailer of the Year 2003 NFU Farming Excellence Awards Great British Food NE Regional Runner up 2002 Finalist in the Waitrose-Times Newspaper Small Producers Awards. 2001 The Milk Development Council s first David Hall award for innovative marketing of dairy products
Fabulous Doddy Diddies 120ml Diddies Available in boxes of 12 Simply Vanilla Real Vanilla seeds are added to flavour this ice cream resulting in a truly authentic vanilla taste. Utter Chocolate Using the finest west African cocoa beans and real chocolate resulting in a uniquely rich chocolate ice cream. Real Strawberry Real strawberries give the freshest of strawberry tastes (no artificial flavours here). Double Ginger A subtle, but very distinctive, stem ginger flavour is enhanced with ground ginger in our rich creamy ice cream. Rip roaring Raspberry Heaps of ripe raspberries mixed with smooth ice cream create a luscious texture combined with a distinctive taste. Mint & Dark Chocolate Naturally coloured cool mint ice cream with rich dark chocolate chips. Individual 120ml cartons contain a spoon in the lid.
We ve been hard at work recreating some of the flavours that the Roman Britons may have tasted hundreds of year ago! We added Apple & Cinnamon, Cherry and Heather Honey to our award winning dairy herd s full fat milk and after many small changes we hit on the perfect mix. We hope that you enjoy them as much as we did creating them. Keep an eye out for our centurions - wherever you see one you ll find our Roman Ice Cream!
Our pottylicious f lavours 500ml Middies Available in boxes of 6 Simply Vanilla Real Vanilla seeds are added to flavour this ice cream resulting in a truly authentic vanilla taste Available in 1 litre, 500ml and 120ml Utter Chocolate Using the finest west African cocoa beans and real chocolate resulting in a uniquely rich chocolate ice cream Available in 1 litre, 500ml and 120ml Real Strawberry Real strawberries give the freshest of strawberry tastes (no artificial flavours here) Available in 1 litre, 500ml and 120ml Homemade Fudge Chunk We use Granny s recipe for homemade fudge, this is deliciously embedded throughout creamy ice cream Available in 1 litre and 500ml Double Ginger A subtle, but very distinctive, stem ginger flavour is enhanced with ground ginger in our rich creamy ice cream Available in 500ml and 120ml Cappuccino and White Chocolate A cappuccino flavoured ice cream is pebbled with white chocolate pieces Available in 500ml Pumphrey s Coffee Reminiscent of a frozen cafe latte, the creamy ice cream base is infused with coffee from Pumphrey s crema espresso beans Available in 500ml and 1 litre 1 litre Biggies Available flavours include: Simply Vanilla Utter Chocolate Real Strawberry Homemade Fudge Chunk Raspberry Cranachan Pumphreys Coffee Lemon Meringue Heather Honey Creme Caramel We also have these and many other flavours available in 4 litre catering packs. Seasonal variations such as Yuletide Pudding and Mulled Wine appear regularly.
Taste of the North East Doddington Dairy have become know for their innovative and regional flavours The launch of the Newcastle Brown flavour in 2003 made national and world news. Since this time regional alliances have been formed between Doddington Dairy and other brands. Examples include Chainbridge Heather Honey and Alnwick Rum Truffle, both of which Doddington Dairy have introduced in small branded cartons for the tourist market, as well as being available in catering packs for restaurants and hotels. Regional and Bespoke Flavours Regional flavours are of interest to tourists as well as those from the area and create interest in food from the region. The Percy Special ice cream based on a traditional Northumbrian winter drink of whisky, cherries and cherry liqueur proves popular during winter months in many hotels and restaurants. For larger customers we are able to provide bespoke flavours, indeed The Sage Gateshead are probably the only music venue in the UK with it s own bespoke ice cream flavour Coconut and Pineapple Sage. For some customers we have created their own range of ice creams in cartons designed specially for them. The Alnwick Garden have flavours specifically created for certain areas of Garden. Orchid Vanilla for the Ornamental Garden, Death by Chocolate the for the Poison Garden, Fruits of the Forest for the Treehouse and Alnwick Rose for the Rose Garden.
We re potty about Promotion We consider an on-going marketing and PR strategy to be fundamental to the success of our business. Please check out the Doddiweb on www.doddingtondairy.co.uk and add your name to the mailing list to receive our regular email news. Promotional material such as pavement signs, flyers and posters, as well as other bespoke point of sale material can be provided to increase awareness. If you would like this please fill in the section at the bottom of the page and return it to us - or simply email your requirements to: enquiries@doddingtondairy.co.uk Door Sticker Table Card Poster Freezer Sticker Pavement Sign Wall Flag Point Of Sale Order Form Name of your organisation: Address: Tel: e-mail: I would like to order: Quantity Table Cards Door Sticker 300 x 120mm Doddington Pavement Sign - ( 30 refundable deposit) Freezer sticker - 700 x 270 (other sizes ring to discuss) Wall mounted flag - 600 x 400mm Poster - A4 or A3 portrait (other sizes ring to discuss)