Community Partnership Awards
Entry to the 2008 FDF Community Partnership Awards is now open.
The closing date for submitting your company initiatives for the Awards is
Friday 30 May, download an entry form (pdf 480kb) to see how you can participate.
If you have any questions regarding the suitability of your initiative, please
feel free to contact event manager Jennifer Lee of The Grocer on 01293 610354 or
email jennifer.lee@william-reed.co.uk
About the Awards
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.
Fist 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. Download the 2008 entry form (pdf, 480kb) to see how your company's community initiative can participate in the Awards.
More Information
If you have any questions regarding the suitability of your initiative, 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: 09 May 2008