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TheForge

the forge is

A curated network for the UK's most considered food and drink challenger brands, and the people who help them grow. Introductions that actually go somewhere, year round, made directly by a member of The Forge team.

Find your room
By application. CURATED BY OUR TEAM. Year round, not once a year.
Two rooms, one network

do you make it,
or do you support brands who make it?

The network is one room with two doors. Choose yours, and we will introduce you to the people on the other side.

The network

Not a database. Not a directory. A room where the right people keep meeting.

everything in the forge is made by hand, including the introductions.

Our team learns who you are and what you need, then puts you in front of the people worth knowing. The rest of the programme exists to give those relationships somewhere to grow.

introductions

Warm, matched by a wonderful human, year round. Never a mailout, never a list.

dinners

Eight to a table, off the record, worth the drive to Norfolk.

insight

Briefs on category, buyers and capital. Read, not skimmed.

training

Workshops built for people who already trade, not beginners.

The founders dinner

Eight to a table.

off the record, and worth the drive to Norfolk.

No stage, no pitch, no name badges. A table set by our team, the people worth meeting, and the kind of conversation you cannot have anywhere else. Members come for the evening and remember it for a year.

You are invited
TheForge
the founders dinner, for the founding 100
WhenSeptember 2026
WhereNorfolk
The tableEight covers
By membership · set by our team
Behind it
Portrait · Jeni Bloom

Built by Jeni Bloom. Norfolk based by choice, not by default.

the best brands are not all in london, and neither are we.

Ex Diageo, founder of Nocrudo, the UK's first non alcoholic nootropic cocktail range, now scaling to exit.