- For better school food, and food skills, and protecting children from junk food marketing
- An informal network of London restaurants and catering businesses that care about sustainability
- Evidence of the contribution of food and farming to climate change
- Highlighting the connections between diet, mental health and behaviour
- How action can protect the environment, enhance social justice and improve health
- Campaigning for a law on healthy and sustainable food for schools, hospitals, care homes
- Practical help to increase healthy and sustainable food in schools, hospitals, care homes…
- Local and regional activity that promotes healthy and sustainable food
- Helping producers, consumers, retailers and caterers provide healthy and sustainable food
- Reconnecting people and land through local food
- Working for sustainable food at the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games
- Practical advice for anyone interested in buying and using more sustainable food
- Spreading information about urban food growing in London, the UK and worldwide
- Working in 10 deprived London areas to improve access to affordable and sustainable food
- Inspired by the London 2012 Food Vision, the campaign for healthy and sustainable food in catering
- Challenging businesses and citizens to make London the world's first Sustainable Fish City
- Sustainable food news in London
- Demonstrating and promoting the benefits of urban agriculture
- 2,012 new food growing spaces by the end of 2012
- Find or set up a Food Co-op in your area
- For bread made with natural ingredients
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Downloads
Good Food Training Evaluation Report - The successes and challenges from the last two years, with recommendations for catering qualifications and food skills training in the future.
What we have learned: Good Food Training’s Interim Report
Practical advice and common-sense recommendations for schools, hospitals and care settings interested in skills training for healthy, sustainable food and an economically viable catering service.
Archive: Good Food Training
This project designed and piloted bespoke and accredited healthy and sustainable food training for caterers and buyers working in public sector institutions in London. During the phase of the project with which Sustain was involved, we offered practical and innovative training tailored specifically to each organisation’s needs in preparing and delivering healthy, sustainable food. The training programme is now being run by the Greenwich Cooperative Development Agency. The training includes the following:
- How to buy and serve healthy, sustainable food
- 'Healthy eating' guidance
- Community Café training
- Financial Planning
- Food presentation
- Knife and Cooking Skills – practical food training
- Food Procurement
- Customer service
- Menu planning
- Food waste, water and energy management in a kitchen
- CIEH Level 2 Award in Healthier Foods and Special Diets
- Food Growing
- Lunchtime Supervisor Training
- OCN accredited course in healthy eating and running a cookery club
Contact
For more information about current Good Food Training opportunities, please contact Mel Taylor, our Training Development Manager at GCDA: mel@gcda.org.uk or 0208 269 4880.
Greenwich Kitchen
With capital funding from FEAST and the LDA we have designed and built a brand new, state of the art kitchen available now for chef training and catering businesses.
The hire of our kitchen includes the following:
- 2 large kitchen spaces to fit 15 trainees comfortably
- Induction hobs – 80% more energy efficient than regular gas hobs
- Rational Combi oven
- Blast chiller
- Hobart mixer
- Slicer
- Eco cleaning products
- Sustainable suppliers
- Hire price for as little as £15 per hour (2 hours minimum)
Please contact Mel on 0208 2694880 for more information
This project was funded by the London Development Agency
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