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International Young Butchers Competition - Good Luck Kyle!

I am sure you will be supporting us in wishing our Apprentice Butcher Kyle Mottram the best of British this weekend as he heads to Frankfurt to compete in the International Young Butchers Competition on Saturday.

As part of the English team Kyle will be competing for glory alongside contestants from six other European countries - Austria, France, Germany, Holland, Luxembourg and Switzerland.

There is a team award up for grabs as well as the coveted title of 'International Young Butcher of the Year'. [More]

From Butcher to Chef Course with The Cooking School at Dean Clough

Ever wished you could cook the perfect piece of steak, belly pork or lamb?

Well our expert butchers have teamed up with the Cooking School at Dean Clough to create a course to help you do just that.

Taking place on Saturday the 11th of May from 9.30am to 3.30pm the course will teach you how to bone a rack of lamb, make a mouth watering piece of belly pork with a crispy skin and cook a succulent steak with dauphinoise potatoes and minted lamb kofta. [More]

Supporting the Livestock Assurance Scheme

As hightlighted by the Telegraph & Argus we are fully welcoming the Livestock Assurance Scheme which has been introduced by the Livestock Auctioneers Association.

Click read more to find out about our commitment to supporting local food. [More]

Christmas champion purchased from Wharfedale Auction Mart at Otley

Locally sourced meat is at the heart of our business here at Keelham. This is why our co-owner James Robertshaw visits local auction marts every week to handpick the best to supply our in house butchers with the tastiest local meat available. James knows his way around livestock and was taught how to select the best by his father Andrew, who started Keelham in the 1970s, and his Grandad Harry, who ran a butchers shop in Halifax, well before people had cars to be able to access us here.
Click read more to find out more about the Christmas Show champion. [More]

We have been crowned Farm Shop of the Year at the Butcher's Shop of the Year Awards 2012

We were over the moon yesterday when we received the Farm Shop of the Year award at the Butcher's Shop of the Year Awards 2012 in London. We have been finalists for the last three consecutive years and now to be officially the Farm Shop of the Year is a brilliant achievement. Since 1929 the Robertshaw family have been supplying local people with great tasting affordable local meat, and as the farm shop has changed over the past 40 years or so butchery has continued to be at the heart of everything we do. This summer during our make over we doubled the size of our butchers counter, enabling us to offer new homemade products such as our ever popular ready to cook range, and an ever wider range of meat and game. Thank you to all our loyal customers for their support.

Click 'read more' to see us all dressed up at the awards ceremony and not in our butchers whites. [More]

We're back with a bang in this year's Butcher's Shop of the Year Awards!

After being shortlisted for the Meat Trades Journal's "Butcher's Shop of the Year Awards" in the Farm Shop Butchery category for three year's running - we're returning for the fourth consecutive year, with a much stronger hand and some very exciting new developments in our butchery department. [More]

Young Isabel a champion at just three years old

Isabel North of Giggleswick, who has just turned three years old clinched the champion title at the Annual Young Farmers show and sale of prize lambs at Skipton Auction Mart. Click read more to see Isabel proudly showing her champion lamb which we bought at the auction. [More]

Our new Butchers is now open!

Our fully refurbished new butchers opened its doors on Saturday 4th August and we've had some really positive feedback so far. [More]

More champions for Keelham

Locally sourced meat is at the heart of our business here at Keelham. This is why our co-owner James Robertshaw visits local auction marts every week to handpick the best to supply our in house butchers with the tastiest local meat available. James knows his way around livestock and was taught how to select the best by his father Andrew, who started Keelham in the 1970s, and his Grandad Harry, who ran a butchers shop in Halifax, well before people had cars to be able to access us here.

Click read more to find out about the champions we've bought this week and why it's important to us to support local farmers. [More]

British Rose Veal - the facts

In the past few years, there's been a growing interest in high-welfare rose veal in this country, and at Keelham we’re all for it. British Rose Veal is a ‘high animal welfare meat’ and the great news is that both the RSPCA and Compassion in World Farming (CIWF) have given British Rose Veal an ethical stamp of approval – here’s some reasons why... [More]