Clive’s Veganuary Offers
Veganuary is on a mission to inspire and support people across the globe to try vegan for January and beyond.
🎄 Festive Feastings 🎄
Our range of tasty veg packed bakes are perfect for any seasonal spread and we get asked quite a lot about suggestions for the best gravy recipe to have as an accompaniment. So…just for you, we have worked with fabulous vegan recipe developer, Romy, to come up with the ONLY gravy recipe you’ll need this Christmas – vegan caramelised shallot and black pepper gravy.
Award winning nutty perfection
We’re thrilled to announce another impressive accolade for Clive’s tasty bakes. We have been awarded a Silver Award in the Christmas Dinner category at the prestigious Free From Christmas Awards.
PRODUCTION COOK
Love cooking but not hospitality hours? Come make pies with us! We have an opportunity to join our team of expert pie-makers on a Monday to Friday permanent contract. This role calls for someone who is super organised, proactive, and a real team player. Production in The Bakery is as you would expect, a well-oiled machine with tried and tested processes. Our perfect Production Cook will slot in with ease and come with the skills needed to react and adapt quickly when demand goes pie high.
Gold Award Winner
We are very proud to have won a Gold Award in the Food Drink Devon 2023/24 awards for our newly launched Vegan Sausagey Rolls.
Clive’s Joins the VFC Foods Family
We are thrilled to announce that Clive’s Purely Plants is joining the VFC Foods family! This exciting development marks a significant moment for our brand Clive’s Purely Plants, at the forefront of crafting irresistible vegan pies, quiches, and nut roasts since 1986. Our journey has been one of dedication to quality, flavour, as well as our mission to remove animals from the food chain. We’ve had the privilege of working with many small independent businesses and wholesalers as well as earning a place on the shelves of major retailers such as Waitrose, Ocado, Asda, and Abel & Cole, thanks to your support and love for our premium, veg-packed products.
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT
HAVE YOU GOT WHAT IT BAKES? Do you want to join a fun, friendly team at an exciting plant-based bakery in Dartmouth? We’ve got an opening to join us as a Production Assistant at Clive’s to help us create our signature vegan and organic bakes. We’re looking for self-motivated individuals who have good attention to detail. Clive’s is a Bakery full of lovely people, so we’re on the hunt for people who fit in with our brilliant team, happy, friendly and positive is what we look for. No experience required, but please do let us know if you have worked in any similar roles. This is a fantastic entry role to the team, with opportunities to learn new skills and progress into other areas of the business if you are interested in developing your career.
Let’s save the planet, one pie at a time!
Veganuary is on a mission to inspire and support people across the globe to try vegan for January and beyond. This year they are celebrating their 10th Veganuary and more than two million people have officially signed up since the pledge began in January 2014.
Clive’s crowned King of Pies
Here at Clive’s we are super proud to be winners in not one but two categories in the prestigious Plant-Based Taste Awards, created by FoodBev Awards.
AA Rating Awarded to Clive’s First Time
Not just a pretty pie! Here at Clive’s Purely Plants we have not only been audited against the BRCGS standard for the first time but also received the highest rating possible – AA!
Family Nut Roast wins Silver at Free From Christmas Awards
We were delighted to be one of many free from companies that participated in the first ever Free From Christmas Awards this year. We were even more delighted to go home with an amazing Silver Award win in the Christmas Dinner category for our popular vegan, gluten free Family Nut Roast. Â
Organic through and through
Meet our newest partner in pie…Stroud Brewery
It’s Organic September and we’re celebrating by introducing you to one of our newest suppliers, the brilliant Stroud Brewery.
We welcome new partners Veg Capital
We’re delighted to announce that Clive’s, your favourite vegan bakery, has secured a game-changing investment from high-profile investment fund Veg Capital. Veg Capital provides funding to companies striving to replace animals in the food system, and their backing marks a historic moment in our bakery’s 35-year history.  Â
Clive’s Quiche Range Expands Ahead Of Staycation Summer
We’re delighted to bring another two vegan quiches to our range which was previously the Vegan Quiche Lorraine and the Creamy Cauliflower Quiche.
Clive’s Quiches in store today!
We are so excited and proud to be launching our two new vegan quiches – Vegan Quiche Lorraine and a comforting Creamy Cauliflower Quiche.
Clive’s Expands As Demand Soars
At a
time when many companies are being forced to downscale, Devon-based pie
manufacturer Clive’s Pies is making big investments to meet the growing demand
for their 100% organic, plant-based pastry products in plastic free packaging.
WANTED: PACKING/DESPATCH TEAM LEADER
We are seeking an enthusiastic, self motivated Packing/Despatch Team Leader to work with us at our lovely new bakery in Dartmouth.
WHAT ORGANIC MEANS TO US
With more people than ever thinking about eating organic, we wanted to get to the root of what it actually means and why it is so important to us here at Clive’s Pies. So, we caught up with Sally Carson and Esther Pearson who are at the helm of our pie-making ship to find out more.
Clive’s Kale – #plantsomepositivity
Here at Clive’s we are positively bursting with planty goodness (just like our pies). This September, as part of Organic Month, we’re helping you #PlantSomePositivity with our free kale seed giveaway. That’s right, you can have a go at growing your very own organic kale and learn lots of amazing things about organic farming – why it’s good for you, and for the planet!
Building Underway at our new Dartmouth Home
With more space, a purpose-built bakery and a view of the River Dart, we are so excited to be moving homes. Our new bakery is only 30 minutes away from our previous home in Hamlyn House, Buckfastleigh.
We’ve gone vegan for good!
Clive’s, the
much-loved vegetarian pie-maker has today revealed that their entire range is
now fully plant-based. It was a small change for the bakery to make, updating
just one last recipe to make all products they produce 100% vegan, but it has
already had some big changes for the Devon based baker.
Clive’s set to move to Dartmouth
Following our successful national launch in Waitrose last year and huge rise in demand for Clive’s plant-based and gluten–free pies, tarts and nut roasts, the team at Clive’s have purchased their first premises at Nelson Road, Dartmouth.
Clive’s Pies crowned as the Best of Organic!
On the 26th of June at the Oval Space London, the team here at Clive’s Pies claimed the prestigious ‘Best of Organic Specialist Diet’ announced by the Best of Organic Market (BOOM) for our Organic Creamy Mushroom Pie.
Clive’s Scoops Two Silvers at British Pie Awards
Clive’s Pies scoop two silvers at British Pie Awards.
Clive’s @ Vegan Life Live
Clives @ Vegan Life Live – thanks for coming!
Hunt the Clive’s Pie just got easier!
The team at Clive’s have just launched a new pie finder online to help find a stockist near you. Just click on Pie Finder and search by location or postcode to get a list of stockists near you.
Clive’s use of Palm Oil
At Clive’s we are deeply concerned about any negative impacts to the
environment through the products we source. One of the most hotly debated is
our use of palm oil.