Community Partnership Awards
Key dates for the 2008 FDF Community Partnership Awards:
- Deadline for entries: Entry Closed
(Friday 30 May)
- 1st phase of judging: Friday 13 June
- 2nd phase of judging with high profile panel : Thursday 10 July
- Awards ceremony: Tuesday 28 October (vtbc)
To celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Community Partnership Awards, we have
assembled a high profile panel of experts. Our panel will be chaired by Sir Don
Curry, Chairman of the Sustainable Farming and Food Implementation Group, and one
of the UK food chain's most respected figures.
He will be joined on the panel by: Professor Robert Pickard, Chairman of Which?;
Lorraine Hendle, The Grocer Publishing Director; Robert Tate, Business in the
Community Account Manager; and Julian Hunt, FDF Director of Communications.
About the Awards
Kelloggs - Culture, Media and Sport Winners 2007
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FDF's Community Partnership Awards recognises the food and drink chain's
longstanding commitment to the community and provides a showcase for the sector's
widespread activities in corporate social responsibility.
First presented in 2003
by
the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the Rt Hon
Margaret Beckett MP, the Awards reward those UK food and drink chain
organisations, at
the heart of Britain's communities, which are making a positive
difference
to the
everyday lives of people and/or the environment.
The industry is full of people, from senior executives to delivery drivers, who
play their part. There are plentiful examples of companies which spend hundreds
of thousands of pounds on community-based partnerships, either in employees'
time,
funding or support in kind. The initiatives themselves are wide-ranging and
include:
- apprenticeships in the local community
- education initiatives teaching students how businesses operate
- job coaching for the homeless
- sponsorship of local amenities such as police stations, post offices and the
ambulance shop
- school resources including healthy lifestyle packs, cookery and food hygiene
classes and breakfast clubs
- sports schemes including cycling and swimming, and
- a back care scheme.
A large number of companies were recognised for their community schemes in 2007,
including apetito, ASDA, Cadbury Trebor Bassett, Compass Group UK & Ireland
Ltd, General Mills UK Ltd, Harry Tuffin Ltd, Kellogg's, Kraft Foods UK Ltd,
Macphie of Glenbervie Ltd, Soreen Ltd and Tate & Lyle Plc.
The Awards continue to evolve and the categories now cover initiatives in
education, culture, media, sport, the local community and the workplace community.
FDF is proud to recognise the valuable community involvement of staff and
companies throughout the food chain.
More Information
If you have any questions regarding the 2008 Community Partnership Awards ,
please feel free to contact event manager Jennifer Lee of The Grocer on 01293
610354
or jennifer.lee@william-reed.co.uk
All entries should be posted to the following address and should arrive no later
than the Friday, 30 May 2008.
Jennifer Lee, Community Partnership Awards
C/O The Grocer, William Reed Business Media
Broadfield Park, Crawley
West
Sussex, RH11 9RT
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Last reviewed: 02 Jun 2008