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Sustainable Food and Drink

¹û¶³Ó°Ôº has established a Healthy and Sustainable Food Policy and Strategy to ensure that ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº meets high environmental and socially responsible standards for the food offered through its catering partners, and to encourage healthy and sustainable food production and consumption.

Food and Drink Commitments


  • Ensure that 50% or more of our food offers provided are vegetarian or vegan. Champion our #PoweredbyPlants campaign to deliver the majority of hospitality as vegetarian and vegan).
  • Ensure all our standard tea, coffee, bananas, chocolate (confectionary, cocoa powder, drinking chocolate) and sugar are Fairtrade certified.
  • Provide carbon information on food we make in-house to allow consumers to make environmentally informed food choices. Encourage behaviour change towards lower impact foods.
  • Maintain Food Made Good accreditation by the Sustainable Restaurant Association.

Read ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº's Healthy and Sustainable Food Policy

What ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº is doing


  • Awarded 3 (out of 3) stars .
  • Jointly awarded the 1-star Fairtrade University and College Award, following a student-led audit in 2022. 
  • Successful roll-out of 50p cup charge for disposable coffee cups. 
  • Vegetarian and vegan default hospitality choices #PoweredbyPlants.
  • Established the ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Sustainable Food Working group - a new collaborative pan-¹û¶³Ó°Ôº group of representatives from ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº caterers, Sustainable ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº, Union and Student Societies, to share best practice.

¹û¶³Ó°Ôºâ€™s sustainable food initiatives

Food at ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº


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Sustainable events


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Ordering vegetarian food, reducing disposable plastics and reducing food waste at events all help ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº meet our sustainability goals.

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