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  • More community funding to reduce carbon footprint

    COMMUNITY GROUPS taking action against the damaging impacts of climate change are to benefit from an extra £1.5 million.                     The money will bolster the Climate Challenge Fund (CCF), enabling more… Read More

  • Food waste tips on the menu at BBC Good Food Show

    AS FOOD lovers gather in Glasgow this weekend for the annual BBC Good Food Show (18 – 20 October), the Love Food Hate Waste team are on hand to help tackle some of the 2.1 million tonnes of food wasted… Read More

  • Footprint Awards Winners 2013 Revealed

    ANNE PIERCE, the CEO of The Springboard Charity, was last night [23rd May] revealed as the winner of the Footprint ‘Special Achievement’ award 2013, for her contribution to the social sustainability of the industry, at a ceremony held at RIBA,… Read More

  • New health & wellbeing training

    THE BRITISH Nutrition Foundation (BNF) has launched an online training package for use in corporate health and wellbeing programmes.   An ‘Introduction to Healthy Eating and Nutrition’ is designed to verse employees in the basics of nutrition and healthy lifestyles. It… Read More

  • Bee decline set to force food price up

    THE DRAMATIC declines in bee numbers could force food prices up as farmers turn to hand-pollination.                       Research by bee experts at the University of Reading have calculated that it… Read More

  • Drought spreads to Yorkshire

    PARTS OF Yorkshire have moved into official drought status after another dry month has left river levels and underground water supplies depleted.   Areas from Chesterfield in the south of Yorkshire to Scarborough in the east fall into the drought… Read More

  • Marketing green products

    MARTIN MOLL, Head of Marketing Honda UK explains how he markets eco-markets and how this can apply to any number of other manufacturing industries and when it comes to selling green products, the car industry is ahead of most.   Convincing customers… Read More

  • Water – Way to go

    WATER FLOWS through foodservice operations like there is no tomorrow– and if we carry on the way we are there won’t be. But don’t worry, help is at hand to stem the flow. Nick Hughes reports.   The complex and fragmented… Read More

  • Celebrations for the UK Entrants of the EBAE’s announced

    THE CELEBRATION for the 12 UK Entrants for the European Business Awards will take place on Tuesday the 13th of March between 1400 – 1600 at the Altrium, DEFRA, Nobel House, 17 Smith Square, London SW1P 3JR.      … Read More

  • Apprentices raise £20,000 for Hospitality Action

    APPRENTICES FROM Compass Group UK have raised £20,000 for charity as part of National Apprenticeship Week. Ten teams from the Compass academy were tasked with turning £200 into £2,000 and, following charity dinners, raffles, sports challenges and more initiatives, met… Read More