What can YOU do to make Good Food For Glasgow a reality? Take a look at our top tips for organisations and businesses.

1) Help make sure everyone has access to fresh, fair, healthy, affordable food:

  • Buy and cook healthy, fresh, sustainable food to sell or supply
  • Explore ways to source fair trade, local, seasonal and organic produce

2) Use growing and cooking food to bring your community together:

  • Support communal food breaks, to bring people together over food
  • Support your employees, customers or clients to cook, eat and enjoy fresh, sustainable food
  • Offer space to grow food where possible

3) Support Glasgow’s local food economy:

  • Explore ways that your procurement or buying systems can support local businesses
  • If you serve food, highlight where your produce comes from to those who eat it

4) Enjoy and celebrate diverse, tasty and healthy food:

  • Increase the amount of healthy food available in your workplace
  • Engage your employees, clients or customers in food – ask for recipes, tell them where food has come from, and hold food celebration events

5) Make sure food is good for the environment as well as people:

  • Take steps to reduce food waste across your organisation
  • Make sure you meet the Waste (Scotland) Regulations – recycle unavoidable food waste
  • Redistribute food wherever possible
  • Avoid and recycle packaging
  • Support high animal welfare standards
  • Choose local, seasonal, organic produce

You can also find a list of other helpful resources for food businesses HERE.

Don’t forget to sign up to the Good Food for All Charter to show your support!