Food and drink

Organic, Local Produced Food
Although originally considered simply a passing whim, organic items now represent 3% of the food market. Serve food that takes into account considerations like sustainability, ethical trade and local sourcing.

Coffee-Time
There is coffee, and there is coffee that is supplied from growers who respect agreed environmental and social standards and the actions of whom are fully authenticated. Coffee served in your selected conference hotels and venues might or might not currently reach such sourcing criteria, but the question can be raised. Another option is to look out for Fairtrade labelling which offers the reassurance that small-scale producers (coffee, chocolate, tea etc.) are helped through direct purchasing arrangements (www.fairtrade.org.uk). AMT coffee outlets around the UK are 100% fairtrade coffee (www.amtcoffee.co.uk), but note that some coffee shops offer only the option of Fairtrade beverages. Bettys Café Tearooms in Yorkshire operate a Trees for Life programme to ‘give back’ to the communities providing their tea and coffee, and have to date planted (mainly through Oxfam) nearly three million trees in Africa, Asia and Central/Latin America. Bettys also supports woodland initiatives in Yorkshire (www.bettys.co.uk). There are now over 150 Fairtrade Towns in the UK in which a considerable proportion of cafés, shops etc. offer Fairtrade products (www.fairtrade.org.uk). This country is the global leader on commitment to Fairtrade.

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