Social Responsibility
Our Environmental Policy
Vanilla Catering and Events are committed to reducing our Carbon Footprint and reducing waste.
Our Food
Where possible we use local Hampshire suppliers and we are proud to be a member of Hampshire Fare (www.hampshirefare.co.uk)
Our meat is supplied to Farm assured Standards and we only use fish from sustainable sources. We never use GM foods
Every year in the UK we throw away £12 billion worth of food which could have been eaten. Vanilla is proud to support love food hate waste which is a campaign from WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme) www.lovefoodhatewaste.com
Recycling
We have recycling bins for all our plastic, cardboard and bottles.Our toner cartridges are recycled. All our glass bottles from events are brought back and recycled.
Our Transport
We encourage our staff to cycle to work and Sally cycles whenever she can even if it means arriving in the office looking slightly dishevelled every day !
Equipment
Our new state of the art Kitchen operates to the highest legislative standards in terms of emissions
Giving Something Back
Vanilla and The Ellen Macarthur Cancer Trust
In 2010 for every wedding or three course corporate event we catered for, we donated 20p per head to Frank Water (www.frankwater.com). The money we raised is helping to fund the installation of a clean water project in Andhra Pradesh ,India giving safe drinking water to over 7,000 villagers so hopefully we made a little difference and we will continue to support them by buying their bottled water.
In 2011 we picked a charity a little closer to home the EllenMacarthur Trust www.ellenmacarthurtrust.org
The Ellen MacArthur Cancer Trust is a national organisation that gives young people between the ages of 8-24 who have suffered from cancer and leukaemia the opportunity to take part in the new and fantastic experience of sailing.
We are pleased to announce that Our Charity for 2012 is a National charity called Facing the world www.facingtheworld.net Facing the World is a British registered charity that provides reconstructive surgery to children from the developing world with extremely severe facial disfigurements. Founded in 2002 by two UK craniofacial surgeons, their mission is to help those children for whom surgery can be life-changing and who because of limited local skills, medical infrastructure and finance have no other hope of treatment.
Everybody deserves the right to be able to smile, some of these children are so disfigured they will never have the opportunity to do this, facing the world is making inroads in helping these children. please visit their website www.facingtheworld.net for full details of the amazing work they do.
For every guest you invite to your wedding or party from 1 April 2012 we will donate 20p to the charity, the more guests you invite the more chance these children will have to smile.
