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Food Legacy working group
The Food Legacy programme is not about setting up new support programmes to promote healthy and sustainable food. It is about influencing and promoting those that already exist. We will seek to collaborate with a wide range of organisations interested in promoting healthy and sustainable food in the catering, restaurant, hospitality and events sectors. The programme is overseen by a smaller Food Legacy steering group, for which details are provided on a separate page. We want to use the inspiration of the London 2012 Food Vision to inspire significant changes in the way food is provided, for the benefit of people and the planet.
If you would like to join in, please get in touch! Contact details are at the bottom of this page, or email: foodlegacy@sustainweb.org.
Some of the following organisations are already actively involved with the Food Legacy programme, to help promote the Food Legacy pledge, and (where relevant) to promote the good work of their sustainability schemes, members and food producers. Others are groups that we will seek to work with and support over the course of the programme:
- Government and related organisations
- Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and charities
- London 2012
- Catering standards, and standards advisers
- Hospitality, catering and restaurant trade associations and advisers
- Food production standards and promotional / supply organisations
- Catering training and education
- Food safety
- Food waste
Government and related organisations
- Commission for a Sustainable London 2012
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport
- Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra, food policy team)
- London Food Board
- NHS London
Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and charities
- Bioregional
- Compassion in World Farming
- Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming (and its Ethical Eats, Good Food on the Public Plate, London Food Link, Real Bread Campaign and Sustainable Fish City projects)
- WWF-UK
Note that other NGOs are also involved, listed under separate categories below.
London 2012
Hospitality, catering and restaurant trade associations and advisers
- Academy of Culinary Arts (and Schools Adopt a Chef scheme)
- British Hospitality Association
- Ethical Eats (a project of Sustain)
- GLA Group procurement
- Hospital Caterers Association
- Local Authority Caterers Association
- School Food Trust
- Sustainable Restaurant Association
- UKSP - developed by People 1st - the sector skills council for hospitality, leisure, travel and tourism, which runs a website for young people to find out more about the industries, job information, qualification tips and career tools
- University Caterers Association, TUCO (national universities) and also the London University Caterers Association, LUCA (London universities)
Catering standards, and standards advisers
- Good Food on the Public Plate (a project of Sustain)
- Food for Life Catering Mark
- Russell Partnership
- Sustainable Restaurant Association
Food production standards and promotional / supply organisations
- Agricultural and Horticultural Development Board (AHDB)
- British Free Range Egg Producers Association
- City of London Corporation (markets and wholesale markets)
- Eat Seasonably
- English Food & Farming Partnerships
- English Fruit Marketing
- Fairtrade Foundation
- Fairtrade London
- Federation of Small Businesses
- Good Catch
- Linking Environment And Farming (LEAF)
- Marine Stewardship Council (MSC)
- National Farmers Union
- New Covent Garden Market Authority
- Organic Trade Board
- Rainforest Alliance
- Real Bread Campaign
- Red Tractor Assured Food
- RSPCA Freedom Food
- Soil Association
- South East Food Group Partnership
- Regional food groups (listed on our local and sustainable food directories page)
- Sustainable Fish City (a project of Sustain, which works in partnership with the Marine Conservation Society, Marine Stewardship Council, Seafood Choices, Pisces Responsible Fish Restaurants and many others)
- Tapwater.org
- Wholesale markets in London, with Business Development Managers supported by the Greater London Authority and London Food Board:
- Billingsgate - Kirsty Grieve and Mary McNeal: kirsty@madforfood.co.uk; mary@madforfood.co.uk
- New Covent Garden - Zeenat Anjari: zeenat@sustainweb.org
- New Spitalfields – Tim Williams: timwilliams4@btconnect.com
- Western International – Peter Clarke: pclarkewim@aol.co.uk
- Borough - Mat Castle: mat@boroughmarket.org.uk
Catering training and education
- Academy of Culinary Arts
- Billingsgate Seafood Training School
- City & Guilds
- Foodservice Consultants Society International (FCSI)
- Good Food Training and Feast Centre (run by SE Ten, a social enterprise hosted by Greenwich Cooperative Development Agency)
- Professional Association for Catering Education (PACE)
- People 1st
- Springboard, the hospitality, leisure and tourism training charity
- Training for Life, Hoxton Apprentice
Food safety
- Chartered Institute for Environmental Health (CIEH)
- Safe and Local Supplier Approval (SALSA, run by the British Hospitality Association)
Food waste
Food Legacy: The campaign, launched October 2011, is inspired by the London 2012 Food Vision adopted by the organisers of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Food Legacy asks caterers, restaurants, event organisers and hospitality organisations to commit publicly to taking steps to improve the healthiness, ethics and sustainability of the food they serve.
