The British Poultry Council is the

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's national trade group for the poultry meat industry, representing them in public relations, policy making and standardisation.

Structure

It is situated just of
Southwark Street
(A3200) near the Blue Fin Building, and just south of the

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. Members include

Bernard Matthews Bernard Trevor Matthews CVO CBE QSM (24 January 1930 – 25 November 2010) was the founder of Bernard Matthews Farms, a company that is best known for producing turkey meat products. Early life Bernard Trevor Matthews was born in 1930 in Br ...

and the

Faccenda Group Faccenda Foods Limited (until April 2014: Faccenda Group Limited) is a privately owned UK business established in 1962 by Robin Faccenda, which supplies fresh poultry products. In 2018, Faccenda and Cargill opened a joint venture to take over t ...

. The CEO has been Richard Griffiths since 2017.

Scholarships program

The Council offers 2 yearly 3,500 pound scholarships to

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. In March 2016 it was announced that the council would be put in charge of the code on chicken-farming from 27 April 2016. It has produced new non-statutory guidance on how to comply with the legislation.

References

{{Authority control Agricultural marketing organizations Agricultural organisations based in the United Kingdom Meat processing in the United Kingdom Organisations based in the London Borough of Southwark Poultry farming in the United Kingdom Poultry organizations