A sandwich shop celebrating 12 years of business was nominated Trader of the Week.

Top Nosh, owned by Karen Robinson, has been based at Haugh Lane Industrial Estate in Hexham since it opened in 2012.

The business offers a wide range of hot and cold sandwiches, salad boxes, boxed meals and daily specials.

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It was nominated for Trader by Paul Robbie, who said: "Karen and Beckey work their socks off to feed Hexham workers. Karen often provides free food to help others out."  

Top Nosh's cateringTop Nosh's catering for events (Image: Supplied) The Facebook page The Vintage Hub also commented: "Karen goes above and beyond to help the local community, the girls work super hard and are also amazing outside caterers."

Karen said: "We're like a little family down here on the estate. We all work quite closely together and help each other out if anyone needs anything."

Top Nosh has started to introduce hot puddings, such as sticky toffee pudding and school cake and custard.

Catering by Top NoshCatering by Top Nosh (Image: Supplied) Karen said employees based at businesses on the industrial estate visit Top Nosh for lunch, including Graham Reader Motor Engineer, Swanson J & G and JPB Specialist Cars.

"We're really lucky because we've got a lot of parking, so we also get a lot of farmers," she added.

Karen has previously been involved in charity work, including helping out with free school meals. 

"On Friday when we're about to shut up shop for the weekend, I go around and give local businesses sandwiches because I hate food waste. In the school holidays, we always like to try and offer something for kids."

Top Nosh offers catering services for businesses and charity events.

The Torch Centre celebrated its 40th anniversary on September 13 and Top Nosh helped supply food for the buffet.

"We did a lot of work with the [Northumberland] County Show when that was on, feeding the people who set up. We do a lot of work with Rickerby's for their sales team, we do a lot of funerals and weddings."

She added she wanted to give a 'massive thank you to all of my customers, because without them I would not be here'.

Top Nosh is open from 8am until 2pm Monday to Thursday, and 7.30am until 2pm on Friday.