Three Months In: How Our Community Is Growing — And How Local Milkmen Can Help Us Go Even Further
The first three months of Find Your Milkman have been nothing short of inspiring. What started as a simple idea — helping customers find a local independent milkman — has already grown into a thriving community built on trust, tradition, and local connection.
100+ Potential Customers Already Looking for a Local Milkman
Since launching, over 100 households have used our website to find a milkman in their area. That’s 100 families actively choosing to support local doorstep delivery rather than the big national chains.
Of those enquiries, around one‑third have already been successfully matched with an independent milkman. For a brand‑new service, that’s a strong start. But we know we can do even better — and this is where we need the help of the milkmen and dairies who keep this industry alive.
Where We’ve Struggled to Connect Customers
Some areas have been harder to match simply because we don’t yet know which milkmen cover which postcodes. Recent examples include:
Cardiff
Bristol
Hampshire
The demand is there. The customers are waiting. We just need the local milkmen to raise their hands so we can send enquiries your way.
A Message to Independent Milkmen and Dairies
We can improve our matching rate — but only with your help.
If you’re an independent milkman or dairy, we’d love to add your postcode areas to our map. The process is simple, and it’s designed to be fair, transparent, and supportive of local businesses.
How the Process Works
You send us the postcode areas you cover. This helps us route the right customers to the right milkman.
A customer submits their details on our website. We check their postcode and match them with the closest independent milkman.
We send you the customer’s details. You contact them directly, introduce yourself, and sign them up to your round.
Once they join your round, you let us know. We then send an invoice for the referral.
You continue delivering — and we continue connecting. The cycle keeps the community growing.
Fair, Realistic Referral Rates
Our referral rates are scaled to the amount of milk the customer orders. This means:
No single high fee
No “one price fits all”
No paying the same for a 1‑pint customer as a 20‑pint customer
It’s fair, reasonable, and designed to support the long‑term health of local milk rounds. If you’d like to know the exact rates, just send us a message.
Why This Works
This community model only succeeds if everyone plays their part:
The customer signs up
The milkman connects and delivers
The referral is paid
Find Your Milkman reinvests the income
Every referral helps cover the running costs of the platform, and any profits are reinvested to grow the movement — more awareness, more customers, more local milkmen supported.
This is local business supporting local business. This is how we rebuild the doorstep delivery tradition. This is how we grow — together.
If You’re a Milkman, We’d Love to Hear From You
Send us your postcode areas.
Tell us where you deliver.
Let us help you grow your round.
Find Your Milkman is here to support independents — always has been, always will be.
