Accessible Hospitality Alliance (aha) is delighted to welcome BM Caterers to its growing membership of hospitality and catering providers, a collective committed to creating a hospitality world that welcomes everyone.
BM Caterers is a catering company renowned for its deep respect for clients, care for its people, and unwavering love of food. Serving more than 40,000 customers daily across more than 100 UK locations, the company places genuine hospitality and human connection at the centre of everything it does.
The decision to stand alongside the purpose of aha followed Antony Prentice, Managing Director of BM Caterers, attending and participating in the inaugural aha Forum. Inspired by what he heard and experienced, Prentice invited his team to reflect on how BM could meaningfully respond and act.
Together, they decided to appoint Regional Chef Manager Ben Schobs as the company’s first Access Champion, a role dedicated to listening, learning, and guiding accessibility progress across the business. This proactive step soon evolved into full membership of aha, ensuring that Prentice and other members of the BM Caterers team will continue to engage with future aha Forums.
Prentice set out the decision to join aha saying: “Attending the initial aha Forum opened my eyes to challenges of individuals I had never previously considered but also to opportunities to look at how we can perhaps look at recruitment differently and how we can better communicate internally to broaden awareness, and I have been massively impressed to see how well Ben has taken to his responsibilities as bm’s Access Champion. Becoming members of aha seemed like the obvious next step for bm.”
Welcoming BM Caterers to membership, Denis Sheehan, Managing Director of Accessible Hospitality Alliance, said: “I am delighted to welcome Antony and the team at BM Caterers to membership of Accessible Hospitality Alliance. It is through our growing network of like-minded partners committed to accessibility that we continue to see positive change.
“Action and change is precisely what we have seen at BM Caterers, and I look forward to learning more about such change when Ben Schobs joins a panel group and shares details of change and action with attendees at our next aha Forum in November.”
Joining aha signifies more than affiliation, it represents active participation in a collective mission to embed accessibility as the keystone of modern hospitality. It is both a statement of intent and a commitment to care and leadership that strengthens the entire hospitality community.
