Birmingham Diocesan Multi Academy Trust has awarded Sodexo the £1.3m a year catering contract for its 18 academy schools. The new three-year contract is from 1 August 2021 with an option to extend to a possible five years. BDMAT’s portfolio of 17 primary schools, within Birmingham and Warwickshire, currently caters for over 3,800 pupils. Sodexo’s contract also includes the … [Read more...]
Sustainable food strategy at the heart of COP26
Host of COP26, Glasgow’s Scottish Event Campus has announced its new food strategy which will ensure that sustainable, responsible, and healthier choices sit at the heart of the venue’s events. The approach has been developed over the past two years with catering and hospitality partner Levy UK + I, part of Compass Group UK and Ireland. It includes a pledge to source at least … [Read more...]
Trio of corporate responsibility appointments made at Sodexo
Sodexo has appointed Claire Atkins Morris as Director of Corporate Responsibility for the UK and Ireland, alongside Simon Mussett as Head of Environmental Sustainability, and Louise Richardson as Head of Community Development – Social Value UK & Ireland. Atkins Morris has more than 11 years of experience working for Sodexo, starting in Healthcare as a Waste and Environment … [Read more...]
BaxterStorey pass one million free meals mark in support of front-line NHS
BaxterStorey has provided over one million free nutritious meals to support front-line NHS staff across the UK since the start of the pandemic. With many of its workplace dining and hospitality locations unable to operate during national lockdowns, BaxterStorey used its extensive local supply chain to provide daily meals to fuel workers from 45 NHS facilities across the UK as … [Read more...]
Department for Education awards new £24 million school breakfast contract
The Department for Education has awarded a new school breakfast contract to Family Action, with £24 million of government investment to supply breakfasts to at least 2,500 schools in England between September 2021 and July 2023. National food charity Magic Breakfast, who has partnered with schools for over 20 years to provide healthy breakfasts to children, worked with Family … [Read more...]
Clink Events to cater for London’s Woolwich Works
Clink Events, the external catering service run by prisoner training scheme The Clink Charity, will be partnering with Woolwich Works, London as an approved caterer when they open their doors 23 September 2021. Woolwich Works has transformed five historic Grade II and Grade II* listed buildings on the Royal Arsenal into what is set to become a thriving new space for events and … [Read more...]
New research by Bartlett Mitchell shows well-being overtakes innovation
Workplace well-being will be more important to organisations than product and service innovation, according to research conducted by Bartlett Mitchell. Titled ‘Reimagining Catering post Covid’, the research also found that 80 percent of people are still formulating how their company will implement remote working practices, with a further 75 percent concerned about the … [Read more...]
Alastair Storey announces leadership changes at WSH and BaxterStorey
This morning a series of new leadership roles have been announced by Alastair Storey, Chairman of WSH. Storey announced: “COVID-19 has provided our industry with its biggest challenge to date, and we have taken the opportunity to make some positive changes in the business to support our recovery and provide opportunities for future talent. As a resilient industry, I am … [Read more...]
Army launches digital hub to transform Food Services for soldiers
The Army has launched a new Army EATS digital hub during Healthy Eating Week that will enable a conversation with soldiers to modernise how they access food and catering services in the future. The Army EATS hub, hosted on the Army’s enterprise social network Defence Connect, supports a communication forum for soldiers to increase their nutritional knowledge as well as … [Read more...]
Sodexo CEO: “Wellbeing is the key to bridging hospitality’s recruitment gap”
Article By: Chris Bray, Sodexo Sport & Leisure UK&I CEO Indoor dining and hospitality returning marks a huge milestone in the UK’s post-lockdown roadmap but as we make our way towards 21st June, the hospitality industry needs to reinforce its commitment to its people in order to fully reap its rewards. People should be at the heart of any good business model but … [Read more...]
New Head of Diversity & Inclusion welcomed at Sodexo
Sodexo UK & Ireland has made a crucial new appointment by making Raj Jones its permanent Head of Diversity & Inclusion. Raj started her career with Sodexo in 2007, taking on a role in Learning & Development for the Justice part of the business before moving to a secondment with the central Diversity & Inclusion team. After five years, she took up a role … [Read more...]
BaxterStorey join UN Race to Zero
WSH, the parent company of leading hospitality brands including BaxterStorey has signed a landmark pledge, committing to the Business Ambition for 1.5°C which will see them join the UN Race to Zero, setting a science-based net-zero target and making a critical contribution to limiting the impacts of climate change. Spearheading WSH’s focus on sustainability is Mike Hanson, … [Read more...]
Newbury Racecourse awards new 10 year foodservice contract
Newbury Racecourse has selected Levy UK + I, the sports, and hospitality division of Compass Group UK and Ireland, as its official catering and hospitality partner. The ten-year contract will build on the in-house capabilities Newbury Racecourse has used to date and enhance catering across the venue’s raceday and corporate operations. Levy will work together with Newbury … [Read more...]
Ethnicity pay gap report published by Sodexo
Sodexo UK has voluntarily published its ethnicity pay gap data for 2020, making it the first company in the hospitality and FM industry to do so. Sodexo has a long-standing commitment to fairness and equity and is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace, and in 2019 publicly pledged, through Business in the Community’s Race to Work charter and through the … [Read more...]
Compass Group’s move to plant-based meals targets 40% by 2030
Compass Group plans to convert around 40% of its meat-based meals to plant-based alternatives by 2030, as part of wider plans to cut carbon emissions at least 65% by 2030. ProVeg UK, a non-profit organisation that works with school caterers to deliver more sustainable menus, welcomes the move. Its Director, Jimmy Pierson, said: “We need diet change not climate change, and … [Read more...]
