Great news from our catering team! I will hand you over to Caroline Drewitt our Catering Manager...
Our Café has been awarded a Silver Award from the Soil Association. We have progressed from the Bronze level in the Food For Life scheme by continuing to increase the amount of freshly prepared meals on site to over 75% while moving towards a more environmentally sustainable ethically sourced menu.
We have been further championing our local and UK food producers. Our milk is organic, our eggs are Free Range from Kent and all our meat is Red Tractor sanctioned. All our pork comes from Maldon just up the Essex coast while our seasonal salad is UK sourced and our Brie is from lovely Somerset.
To progress, we also needed to reach the 5% organic spend on food and have currently reached just over 8% which is fantastic. It includes milk. wholemeal pasta and our very own RSPB jam and chutney.
We now make as much from scratch as we can in an effort to reduce salt, eliminate E-numbers, MSG and waste to keep what we serve to you as fresh and healthy as possible.
We look forward to seeing you soon.