NORTHUMBERLAND CHEESE COMPANY

The history of Northumberland Cheese Company began with the founder Marc Robertson. Marc Robertson was working as a sheep farmer in the eighties on Soppit Farm in Elsdon, Northumberland, and he was producing lamb. At this point in time, farmers were heavily subsidised by the EU (then the EEC) under British Agricultural Policy. Marc began to have concerns that he was too heavily reliant on the subsidies, and in order to become more independent, he was keen to generate some income for himself. It was 1984.