We would like your best shots of anything related to Davisons Ice Cream from across the Isle of Man.

We will have a monthly prize and the winner will be selected by our team. The first prize will be announced in early April!

Please submit your photos on our Facebook Page!

Good Luck!

Here is a great picture of their special day.

Mr & Mrs at the Ice Cream Van

We would like to send them our Congratulations and thank them for the great pictures! Sorry its taken so long to update the website!!

Today (9th May 2012) Year 4 visited the Davison’s Factory in Peel. We met Mr Davison and he showed us how they create their chocolate and explained how the factory works. We also got the chance to see the ice cream production area and found out how it is made too. We had time for some great questions and Mr Davison kindly gave us all a tub of ice cream to take away!

Everyone had a great time and Year 4 have been able to put their learning about chocolate into a local context.

Owner Ian Davison said he hoped to open the doors of the new premises – at the bottom of Strand Road – by the end of this month.

‘It’s in our interests to open there so people know exactly who they are buying,’ he said, before suggesting that people buy ice cream in the island and assume it was made by Davison’s, which was not necessarily the case.

Davison’s Ice Cream is already sold in Port Erin – at Breagle Glen, The Bohemian and Cafe Delicious – but this will be the first dedicated premises the ice cream manufacturer has had in the village for nine years.

Davison’s used to own the ice cream parlour that became Roberto’s and it continued to supply that shop with ice cream until 18 month ago.

Davison’s plans to sell 24 varieties of ice cream (out of a possible 32) in Port Erin, plus ice lollies, tea and coffee.

The shop plans to sell ice cream, premium quality Illy’s coffee and food such as sandwiches and cakes. They also intend to be open seven days a week during both summer and winter.

Port Erin

http://www.iomtoday.co.im/news/district-news/new-ice-cream-parlour-to-open-1-4356074

Spooky things happening at Curraghs Wildlife Park for Hop-tu-Naa

SPOOKY things will be happening at Curraghs Wildlife Park in Ballaugh next week.

The park is teaming up with the local charity Crossroads Caring for Carers to put on a full day of Hop-tu-Naa inspired activities on Saturday, October 29.

Visitors to the park will find a ghost train, trick or treat treasure hunt, creepy crawly talks, lantern making and face painting on offer.

Local drama and dance groups will transform into ghosts, ghouls and creatures from the grave to take part in zombie walks and the creepy crawly talks will be conducted by the Friends of the Wildlife Park group.

Lantern making will start from 10am. Visitors will be able to weave butterflies and bats in the park’s summerhouse and there will also be paper lanterns, masks and colouring for younger children.

Turnip carving will also start at 10am and visitors will be able to turn the vegetables into terrifying Jack-o-Lanterns in the play area.

Tina Jauncey, the park’s duty manager, said: “It promises to be a fun day on October 29 with lots of Hop-tu-Naa activities laid on by Crossroads.

“We are very pleased to collaborate over these special activities and hope it raises lots of money for them while bringing additional visitors to the park.

“‘Children in fancy dress on the Saturday will have free admission so we look forward to the park being full of ghosts, ghouls and witches.”

Any children in fancy dress are invited to take part in the fancy dress competition where there are prizes for the top three costumes.

A special Bugs n Grubs ice cream made by Davisons will be on sale in the Lakeside Café where there will also be face painting, glitter tattoos and a raffle to win a mountain bike.

Alex Wilson, fundraising events co-ordinator at Crossroads Caring for Carers, said: “Crossroads cares for over 700 families providing over 100,000 hours of respite and meaningful care every year on the Island.

“The funds raised through events like this one enable Crossroads to continue to care. Three in five people have a chance of becoming a carer at least one in their lifetime so Crossroads’ work is vital in supporting the carer and the community.”

Curraghs Wildlife Park will be open from 10am to 4pm on Saturday, October 29. Children in fancy dress will get free admission and anyone travelling to the park by bus will receive a 10 per cent discount off the cost of their tickets.

The trick or treat treasure hunt will run from Monday, October 24, to Saturday, October 29.

Article from: http://www.isleofman.com/News/article.aspx?article=40267

FROZEN FUNGHI: Greig Davison and Kathy Irwin tuck into a surprisingly popular ice cream made with Greeba Farm mushrooms

MUSHROOMS are a stalwart of soups and risottos, but they are now proving a hit in ice cream.

The discovery was made thanks to a partnership between Greeba Farm and Davison’s Ice Cream at the Isle of Man Food and Drink Festival.

Now several restaurants are considering putting it on their menus and Davison’s is stocking its parlours with the unusual flavour.

Greeba Farm director Kathy Irwin said: ‘Visitors were flocking to our Manx Mushroom Experience tent demanding more ice cream.

We ran out of supplies on Sunday afternoon, a staggering seven gallons having been consumed.’

The blend of Manx milk and cream with Greeba Farm’s chestnut mushrooms produced what Ian Davison described as a ‘spectacular frozen rich mushroom dessert’.

The idea started as a bit of a joke but once a sample batch was whipped up, both food producers realised they were on to a winner.

Kathy said: ‘The final product was proof using top quality ingredients in innovative ways demonstrates their versatility. It was a subtle combination of flavours that many people commented should not have worked, but just did.’

Article from: http://www.iomtoday.co.im/news/isle-of-man-news/mushroom_ice_cream_is_surprise_success_1_3864153

Greeba Farm - Mushrooms

If you thought we had already made some weird and wonderful flavours this year, get yourself down to the Manx Food Festival as we are producing a Mushroom Ice Cream for for Greeba Mushrooms, Mrs Cathy Mushroom.

The Manx Food Festival is on 24th and 25th of September  2011.

Please be patient and we will be back up and running as soon as possible, if you should have any questions that you can’t find the answer to at the moment why not drop us an email webmaster@davisons.co.im.

As you will see the website is a bit bare and needs some pictures to get it looking good again. So we are currently creating and looking for some new photos for the website both old and new. If you should have any which you think will be appropite and would like to see on the website then please email them on and we will see if they can be used.

Ice Cream Mountain

Children’s Week in association with Davison’s Ice Cream invited you to create a brand new Luxury Manx Dairy Ice Cream Flavour!! And we have TWO!!

The lovely people at Davison’s Ice Cream have selected Anika Colligon (aged 7) and Trish Hood as the winners! Anika’s popping candy creation and Trish’s Green Tea Sorbet will be on sale at Davison’s Stores from Sunday 10th July.  If you want to enjoy a tasty treat and support a Manx Children’s Charity at the same time, get down to Davisons stores in Peel and Douglas.

Thank you to all entrants – there were some fantastic flavours and beautiful drawings and we appreciate your continued support. Don’t forget to see what else is going on during Children’s Week by checking out our Community Events page.

Article from: http://www.thechildrenscentre.org.im/events/children-s-week-ice-cream-competition-in-association-with-davison-s/