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Croydon Jamaican restaurant relishes its place at heart of community

Leave a Comment / Support the Community, Celebrate Local and Seasonal, Charity, Community Engagement, Food Waste, Local sourcing, One Planet Plate, Restaurants, Society, Waste No Food / By Tom Tanner

By Winnie Adeyemi, Director, AFRICA: Seen & Heard The theme for Black History Month 2022 is ‘Time for Change: Action Not Words’. Great Britain’s foodservice providers of African descent come from a diversity of nations and cultures. They include restaurateurs, caterers and street food sellers who provide diners and customers with cuisine offering tastes of …

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FareShare and KFC freeze out food waste

Leave a Comment / Food Waste, Charity, Community Engagement, Environment, Society, Support the Community, Waste No Food / By Tom Tanner

Helen Davies, Partnership Manager at FareShare Food waste is a growing issue, with 2m tonnes of good-to-eat food going to waste every year across the food industry. All of this food is wasted while 7m people struggle to get enough to eat – and with the cost of living crisis, even more people are facing …

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How making coffee for good proved an award winning formula

Leave a Comment / Support the Community, Charity, Climate change, Coffee, Community Engagement, Environment, Society / By Tom Tanner

By Natalie Lobel, Founder of Grounded MCR Sustainability – a word often bandied around by people who’ve ticked the right boxes in their business plan and left it at that! For us, it meant creating a business that is sustainable in all senses of the word – doing our bit to tackle the climate crisis …

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Five ways to celebrate National Hospitality Day and showcase your green creds

Leave a Comment / Community Engagement, Bars, Caterer, Celebrate Local and Seasonal, Charity, Chefs, Local sourcing, Restaurant and Catering, Restaurants, Support the Community / By Tom Tanner

By Tom Tanner, SRA The eighteenth of September. If the date isn’t in your diary already, take a moment from reading this to ink it in. It’s a Saturday and it’s National Hospitality Day. Yep, that’s right, a day for a nationwide celebration of the UK’s brilliant restaurants, hotels, pubs, bars, cafés and caterers. So, …

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Put positive change on tap this Refill Day

Leave a Comment / Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Charity, Environment, Recycling, Restaurants, Water / By Tom Tanner

By Hannah Page, Brand Lead at Belu Water Wednesday 16th June marks World Refill Day – a day all about choosing reusable options over single-use packaging. UK consumers are thought to go through a whopping 28 billion single use drinks bottles and cans a year. This realisation has caused many people and businesses alike to …

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Be a Zero Restaurant and become a community hero

Leave a Comment / Waste No Food, Celebrate Local and Seasonal, Charity, Chefs, Climate change, COVID-19, Environment, Feed People Well, Food Waste, More Veg & Better Meat, plant based diets, Restaurants, Society, Support the Community / By Tom Tanner

By Nat Jenkins, Consultant to Civil Institute for Voluntary Action ZERO restaurants is an exciting new green venture launching in Hackney this summer with the help of the Civil Institute for Voluntary Action (CIVA) and the support of Hackney Council and Hackney Markets. The ZERO restaurants network will bring like-minded, environmentally conscientious food businesses together …

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Leave a Comment / Support the Community, Brexit, Caterer, Charity, Chefs, Community Engagement, Restaurants, Society, Treat Staff Fairly / By Tom Tanner

Helen Smith, Employment & Learning Service Manager, Unity Works Bars and restaurants are struggling to recruit enough staff and some may not be able to fully reopen In May, after thousands of workers left the sector and the post-Brexit regime kicked in. Many of the employers we speak to are keen to reach a diverse …

In water we Trust: Helping the drinks industry workforce one bottle at a time

Leave a Comment / Charity, Community Engagement, Environment, Plastic, Recycling, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Restaurant and Catering, Restaurants, Sourcing, Supplier / By Tom Tanner

By Mark Bickerton, Co-founder, Trust Water Trust Water was launched this year to help support those working in the drinks industry, with 100% of net profits from every bottle sold being donated to The Drinks Trust. For those who don’t know, The Drinks Trust is a community organisation for the drinks industry offering support and services, to upskill, broaden members’ knowledge, provide a place …

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Show the Love

Leave a Comment / Charity, Community Engagement, Environment, Environmentally Positive Farming, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Support the Community, Sustainability, Value Natural Resources / By thersa

By Jenny Wilson, Project Manager, The Climate Coalition The Climate Coalition’s annual Show the Love campaign is highlighting the impact that climate change is having on food crops within the UK. As vital leaders in the food industry we would love to get your involvement in the campaign. The Climate Coalition is a group of …

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Good Day Productions event reflects potential of social hosting

Leave a Comment / Charity, Community Engagement, Innovation, Members, Society / By thersa

Attendees at December’s Good Day Productions launch event said that social hosting was their number one choice for the second event. Well, there’s a surprise – it’s what you guys do best. Forty foodservice and supplier members keen to discover how to make the very best use of one of their most valuable assets – …

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