About us
The Art of the Mobile Event.
I don't think you should have to travel to a specialised kitchen to experience a chocolate event. That's why I have adapted my workshops so that they are fully mobile: I bring the studio to you. Everything we do is mobile and built to adapt to your space. But these sessions are about more than just satisfying a sweet tooth. In our corporate workshops, we use the process of making chocolates to help teams decode their communication styles so that they understand how to relate to each other better. At weddings, we set up live stations where guests can request their own bespoke truffles and watch them being made in front of them, creating a unique memory as well as unique gifts.
Whether I'm stepping into a corporate boardroom or a backyard marquee, I bring everything needed to turn an ordinary room into a proper, creative chocolate workspace. But however and wherever it happens, I can't wait to share the art of chocolate making with you.
I’ve always believed that chocolate has a unique way of bringing people together.
While Acchoc.co.uk officially launched in 2022, this journey really started twenty years ago. Before ever opening a shop, I wanted to truly master the fundamentals.
I trained at Slattery’s in Manchester and the Callebaut Chocolate Academy in Banbury to properly understand a range of techniques and science behind how to work with chocolate in a professional way. Armed with that foundation, support from my family, and a large slab of granite, I opened a tiny high-street shop in West Yorkshire back in 2006. But the real turning point didn't happen because of a recipe.
It happened on the first floor of a community centre in Ripponden, West Yorkshire. I was booked to demonstrate chocolate making in front of a small audience and I was terrible. Like, really terrible. The chocolate wouldn't temper; I ran out of things to say after about 5 minutes; and I could tell most of the audience were very bored for most of the demonstration, which was 45 minutes. But I got paid. And it was amazing fun, despite it being terrible. Around the same time customers began asking if I would give lessons in making chocolates. Out of curiosity, I hosted my first chocolate workshop in a Leeds city centre restaurant on a day it was closed. I remember the line of people waiting to say thank you at the end of the workshop, and the first round of applause. I was hooked.
I realised what I really loved was not making chocolate behind a counter: it was sharing the joy of crafting chocolates with others. Since 2010, that passion has taken me all over the country, presenting on luxury cruise lines, and teaching over 3,500 students the art of chocolate making, some of whom have gone on to become chocolatiers themselves.