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Community Partnership Award 2011

The winners were announced at the awards ceremony held at the Institute of Directors in Pall Mall London on Wednesday 12 October 2011.

In this report:

Foreword: Terry Jones, Director of Communications
FDF President's award
Apprentice of the year
Case studies

Terry Jones, Director of Communications

It's now ten years since the Food and Drink Federation (FDF) launched its Community Partnership Awards and in looking back at some of the previous entries it's clear to see how much progress has been made in these important corporate social responsibility areas in that time.

Back at the start of the millennium, environmental issues were just starting to become a key area of work for many companies, but they are now firmly embedded in the working practices of our members. The healthy eating agenda and re-engaging schools with food and nutrition was also in its infancy, whereas this year we have been spoilt for choice with the many impressive initiatives in this area of work.

Over the past year, FDF has been working hard to position in the Government's mind that the food industry is a key manufacturing sector and critical to the future health of the economy. We are delighted that this has been recognised and we have established several very successful partnerships that put our industry at the heart of decision making.

This can only underline the importance of our industry's role in the local community. We are not just producers, but also members of that community – we are employers, we are educators, innovators and sponsors.

This year we added two new categories to the awards – Good Employer and Apprentices. Whilst these are inward facing categories, they reflect how our members champion the role of staff as our most important resource – and as we know, staff are influential ambassadors in the local community. The Apprentice category recognises the new FDF careers campaign 'Taste Success – A Future in Food' and I was delighted that this was so well supported. With increased emphasis on apprenticeships, the food industry is keen to play its part in ensuring high quality training opportunities and real job prospects are available to young people.

We were pleased to receive another record number of entries for this year's awards and our judging panel had a tough time selecting the winners from high quality fields in each category. I would particularly like to thank them for their contribution to the process.

I hope that the winners' case studies prove inspirational and that you will be encouraged to look at how you might take forward the ideas within your own business.

More Information

View all the winning Community Partnership Awards case studies (2011)