Feedback from food survey
Ten page pdf of feedback from food survey – published here 24 April 2018
Background
SOAS catering services, currently run by Elior, will be taken in house from 1 September 2018. As for all self-delivery, formal TUPE consultation processes that will be managed through the SOAS Project Board.
We want to create a vibrant, successful food culture at SOAS that meets our collective values and aspirations, and gives people the choices that they want. We also want to make sure we set robust quality assurance standards, especially around sustainability, health and social justice.
Wider consultation and conversation is taking place with the SOAS community as a whole. We are absolutely committed to making sure that all colleagues – students, staff and members of the public who visit our university – have the opportunity to help us shape what a future SOAS food and hospitality offer should look like.
Initial consultation – 15 January to 26 January 2018
Our consultation has started with a campus wide, web-based questionnaire, launched on 15 January 2018. So that we can reach out to all of the SOAS Community, we are distributing the questionnaire through many different communication channels.
The questionnaire developed with the Students’ Union is now live. Your voice counts and we want to hear from you, so that we can deliver a successful and vibrant food culture at SOAS.
Please take 10-15 minutes to give us your views on the food we should be providing at SOAS. You also have the chance to win one of two £50 Waterstones vouchers. All completed surveys will receive a 50p off coffee/tea voucher to use on campus.
Please go to:
Survey closes 8pm on Friday 26 January.
Drop in sessions – 18 and 23 January
We will also be running drop-in sessions on Thursday 18th and Tuesday 23rd January, 11am-3pm in College Buildings (ground floor stairwell) and Paul Webley Wing cloisters, so do come along and tell us your thoughts.
SOAS being supported by Myles Bremner
To help us with our stakeholder engagement, we are pleased to have Myles Bremner supporting this process. Myles has significant experience working in the food sector. He led an environmentally focused food organisation called Garden Organic, before becoming the national Director for the government’s School Food Plan, working with schools, universities, caterers and students to transform what people eat in schools and how they learn about food. Recently Myles has been advising the Jamie Oliver Foundation on its health campaigning work. Contact Myles on myles@bremnerconsulting.co.uk if you would like to know more and get involved.