About
We're building the easiest way for UK food businesses to stay compliant.
SafePrep started with a simple observation: every small caterer in the UK wrestles the same soggy SFBB binder, and most hate it. Records get missed, EHO visits get stressful, and a fantastic kitchen ends up with a worse hygiene rating than it deserves.
We're rebuilding the Food Standards Agency's Safer Food Better Business pack as a clean mobile app — available now for the small businesses that need it most. And we're building a serious QMS for manufacturers who need a level beyond.
Our story
Built by people who actually know food safety.
SafePrep was born out of a friendship and a frustration. After years of helping food businesses up and down the country wrestle with paper-based compliance, it became obvious the SFBB pack — brilliant in principle — was being let down by the format it lived in.
Binders get lost. Pages get coffee-stained. Diaries get back-filled the night before an EHO visit. Meanwhile every other part of running a kitchen has gone digital. So we teamed up to fix it — combining two decades of hands-on food safety expertise with modern software built specifically for the chaos of a real working kitchen.
We're not a generic SaaS company that picked food safety out of a hat. We've stood on tiled floors at 6am, audited cold rooms, written HACCP plans, and shipped software trusted in safety-critical industries. SafePrep is what happens when those two worlds meet.
The founders
Meet the team behind SafePrep.
Clive Ward
Technical Director — Food Safety
Clive brings 20+ years of food industry experience, starting boots-on-the-ground as a butcher before earning food safety qualifications off his own back. He's since worked as a food safety consultant to some of the biggest food manufacturers and brands in the UK — the kind of expert other experts call when things get tricky.
Joshua Ashton
Managing Director — Software & AI
Josh has 16 years of commercial software development experience, working on everything from nuclear medicine quality control robotics to flood defence systems. After years operating as a software and AI consultant, he teamed up with his friend Clive after spotting a clear gap in the food safety market.
Together, Josh and Clive built SafePrep to be the tool they wished existed — one that takes the FSA's Safer Food Better Business pack seriously, and treats the people using it with the same respect.
What we believe
Our principles.
Compliance should be simple
Small caterers shouldn't need a degree in paperwork to be safe and legal.
Built around real shifts
Mobile-first, offline-ready, designed for kitchen reality.
Aligned with the FSA
Faithful to the SFBB pack — no shortcuts, no liability gaps.
Ready to ditch the binder?
Join the UK food businesses already running SFBB the smarter way.