Students from the University of Northampton’s Faculty for Business and Law have pitched their ideas for products that could help a locally based fruit business meet the needs of the future. The FBL (Faculty of Business and Law) Challenge, has been devised by the University in partnership with Blue Skies.The […]
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Download our February edition of Pelican News
Pelican News is a monthly newsletter written by our staff about what’s happening at Blue Skies. In this month’s newsletter: -Blue Skies opens a new state-of-the art factory in Benin! -Blue Skies weathers February storms to keep customers supplied -Discover what we have been doing during Diversity and Equality month […]
Blue Skies launches new state-of-the-art facility in Benin
Blue Skies have launched a brand new fresh-cut facility in the West African country of Benin. The Republic of Benin is a French speaking country of 11 million people and is situated between Togo and Nigeria. The new facility incorporates a host of pioneering and new technologies that will increase […]
Toolkit to help agribusinesses run their own School Farm Competition
The Blue Skies Foundation has launched a new Toolkit for agribusinesses to start their own School Farm of the Year Competition. Following the success of the initiative launched by Blue Skies in Ghana in 2015, the Toolkit provides detailed guidance for other organisations to replicate the model which is designed […]
Download our January edition of Pelican News
The latest edition of the Blue Skies Newsletter ‘Pelican News’ is out now. Pelican News is a monthly newsletter written by our staff about what’s happening at Blue Skies. In this month’s newsletter: -Blue Skies calls on UK Government to support more value-added products from Africa -Blue Skies signs Reggie […]
Revisiting Fotobi Junior High School
After celebrating ten years of the Foundation in 2019, we thought we would revisit some of the first projects we supported, to see how they were doing. Fotobi School applied to the Foundation in 2009. At the time, students at the Junior High School were forced to study in unsafe, […]
DFID Minister, Baroness Sugg, visits Blue Skies in Corby
Blue Skies calls on support for more businesses to make value-added products in Africa, during visit by UK Minister for International Development to factory in Corby. Baroness Elizabeth Sugg, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development, today visited the Blue Skies fresh-cut fruit facility in Corby. Blue Skies is […]
Download our December edition of Pelican News
The latest edition of the Blue Skies Newsletter ‘Pelican News’ is out now. Pelican News is a monthly newsletter written by our staff about what’s happening at Blue Skies. In this month’s newsletter: -Our School Farm Competition awards its 2019 winners -We launch our Blueprint monthly campaigns -Mohamed Shalaby speaks […]
School Farm Awards inspire the next generation
Blue Skies is encouraging the next generation of agricultural entrepreneurs after crowning the winners of its 2019 School Farm of the Year Competition in Ghana. The School Farm Competition of the Year Competition was launched by the Blue Skies Foundation in 2015 as a way of encouraging more young people […]
Download our November edition of Pelican News
The latest edition of the Blue Skies Newsletter ‘Pelican News’ is out now. Pelican News is a monthly newsletter written by our staff about what’s happening at Blue Skies. In this month’s newsletter: -Blue Skies Ghana fights off attempt to cut down protected tree -Annual Conference unveils Future Fit plan […]