Help needed: registering with multiple councels

[Cicchetti]

Hi all
New here, and to food trading, so any help is much appreciated.

Ive recently registered a food business, to be preparing food at home and trading at markets. Ive registered with my local coucel, sefton. Altrincham market require me to register with trafford councel to trade there, and sent me a link to the appropriate website. Only problem is, the registration form asks for the postcode of my business, which is sefton, then redirects to the Sefton councel page - meaning i cant actually register with trafford as I dont have a trafford postcode to enter.

Any advice on how to register with multiple councels so I can trade around the country?

Thanks all

H

 

[MBE2017]

Talk to the Council at Trafford, they will probably accept your other current registration with your local Council, or at least explain how you can trade on the market.

It would be beneficial to join the NMTF, https://www.nmtf.co.uk/, if you plan to trade on multiple markets.

 

[Cicchetti]

Talk to the Council at Trafford, they will probably accept your other current registration with your local Council, or at least explain how you can trade on the market.

It would be beneficial to join the NMTF, you plan to trade on multiple markets.

Brilliant, thank you. I'll give them a buzz.

 

[ecommerce84]

I don’t think it’s possible to fully register with councils outside of the council district where you are based.

We trade at food markets and last year traded in 12 (off the top of my head!) different council areas.

Normally (11 out of the 12 in our case) the market operator asks us for the council with which we are registered and proof of this (alongside PLI and levels 2 or 3 certificates) and that’s usually that.

However there is one council area that we trade in that has a ‘permit to trade’ system. This is not a full registration, you fill out a form with things such as how you’ll manage hand washing and utensil cleaning and what you’ll do with your waste and dirty water at the market and if it all checks out you receive a permit to trade.

I suspect this will be similar in your scenario.

My only other thought was whether the Altrincham market is for ‘local businesses’ only and they’ll only allow those in the Trafford Council area to trade. Although a glance at their Instagram seems to throw this theory out of the window!

Best of luck.

 

[Cicchetti]

I don’t think it’s possible to fully register with councils outside of the council district where you are based.

We trade at food markets and last year traded in 12 (off the top of my head!) different council areas.

Normally (11 out of the 12 in our case) the market operator asks us for the council with which we are registered and proof of this (alongside PLI and levels 2 or 3 certificates) and that’s usually that.

However there is one council area that we trade in that has a ‘permit to trade’ system. This is not a full registration, you fill out a form with things such as how you’ll manage hand washing and utensil cleaning and what you’ll do with your waste and dirty water at the market and if it all checks out you receive a permit to trade.

I suspect this will be similar in your scenario.

My only other thought was whether the Altrincham market is for ‘local businesses’ only and they’ll only allow those in the Trafford Council area to trade. Although a glance at their Instagram seems to throw this theory out of the window!

Best of luck.

Brilliant, thank you. Phoned Trafford Councel but got an automated message saying they are "no longer accepting calls".
This country.
Will keep digging though.
Hx

 

[ethical PR]

Brilliant, thank you. Phoned Trafford Councel but got an automated message saying they are "no longer accepting calls".
This country.
Will keep digging though.
Hx

I highly doubt you got a message saying the local council weren't accepting calls - you got a message saying the service you wanted to talk to were only accepting emails or other written correspondence.

Normally you need to live in a council area to register to trade from their markets.

 

[IanSuth]

I highly doubt you got a message saying the local council weren't accepting calls - you got a message saying the service you wanted to talk to were only accepting emails or other written correspondence.

Normally you need to live in a council area to register to trade from their markets.

Nope there are many many many public sector bodies where people now work remote - the old direct dial numbers for the dept go to silly recordings despite still being liste don websites and in correspondence. You have to ring the main helpdesk and ask them, they will send an internal message and you will get a call back.

I deal with public sector daily - there are even fire services where other than 999 you can't speak to anyone on the phone