ITV

We pledge to work with Veg Power I developing the 2020 campaign. We will jointly develop the strategy, creative work and evaluation plans. In addition, ITV pledge to donate £1.5m airtime to the Eat Them To Defeat Them campaign. Read full pledge.

Scottish Government

In Scotland, the Scottish Government has made commitments across different sectors to encourage veg consumption –  for example, supporting convenience stores with their veg offer, reviewing the Healthy Start scheme, increasing the land available for community growing and reviewing the school food regulations. Read full pledge

Mash Direct

We pledge to lead a promotional Eat them to defeat them in Northern Ireland and fund the provision of 45,000 school packs to children in primary school. In addition to this, we will focus on a different vegetable each week to link in with the campaign and promote this on social media every day. Read full pledge.

Nestle UK

We pledge to update all of our retail Maggi dry recipe mix, stock cube and stock pot meal recommendations to include at least two portions of vegetables per serving ​(on-pack and online) by the end of 2018. This will encourage 3 million people who buy these Maggi products every year to eat more veg.​ Read full pledge

A&J Catering

We will ensure that a minimum 2 portions of veg are always served as standard and increasing the percentage of plant-based options. Read full pledge.

Autograph Education (part of Interserve)

Autograph Education (part of Interserve) pledges to ensure two portions of veg are served in 30% of schools reached through our Brighton and Hove, Bromley and Hastings contracts.  In the remaining 70% of schools we will take steps to support children to eat more veg and take opportunities where we can to deliver 2 portions in every meal.​ Read full pledge.

BaxterStorey

We pledge to increase the overall percentage of vegetables purchased across BaxterStorey to an aspirational target of 15% of the total volume of food purchased, by the end of 2019 through a robust programme of innovation and marketing, including pop-ups, events and seasonal promotions. Read full pledge. 

CEC Catering

We pledge to increase our veg offer by 20%. We will achieve this by increasing the vegetable content of our hot meals and serving at least two side portions of vegetables with our main meals, as well as offering a salad bar with a minimum of 10 choices. 700 people in four staff canteens will benefit from this increased veg offer each day. Read full pledge.

Edinburgh School of Food and Wine

We pledge to 1 Monthly School class (unpaid) using only Plant Based Ingredients, amend our Corporate Menu Selector to include 50% Plant Based meals and offer our Six Weeks Plant Based course to the market together with additional one day classes of Plant Based and Vegetarian course. Read full pledge.

Havering Catering Services

As a service, we aim to work towards maintaining a 10% increase in vegetable consumption within the five schools that participated last year. We have also been able to recruit another six schools to participate and have also set a target of a 10% increase in vegetable consumption.

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ISS

We will increase the servings (kg) of vegetables by 10% by July 2020 (veg in this case follows the government’s Eatwell Guide, so does not include pulses or white potatoes).  Read full pledge.

Sodexo

As a foodservice provider in the UK & Ireland serving around one million meals a day to people in hospitals, schools, the armed forces and prisons, we pledge to play our part to help everyone in Britain eat an extra portion of veg a day. We will support this by increasing the number of vegetables we procure by 10 per cent by 2020, creating more vegetable-focused recipes and continuing to roll out our successful pilot of Green & Lean – our sustainable meals range where all dishes are at least two thirds plant based. Read full pledge

Vertas

We will continue to develop our menus to ensure that a minimum six varieties of vegetables and salads are available each week in our customer’s meal experience. We will add extra vegetables to composite dishes on our menus including our ‘Life on the Veg’ and ‘Pulse’ menu specials. We will offer fresh homemade soup as a daily special during the winter months in High Schools which are made from a vegetable base. Read full pledge

Ask Italian

We are ensuring that all children’s meals include at least two portions of veg through kids starter ‘Kids Vegetable Stick & Bread Soldiers’ which includes vegetables sticks and a tomato dip and by offering peas with every main. With our pledge, we commit to aiming for continuous progress to increase the portions of veg we serve to children every year. Read full pledge. 

Giraffe

We are ensuring that all children’s meals include at least two portions of veg, for example through veg crudites or two veg portions in the main meal item. With our pledge, we commit to aiming for continuous progress to increase the portions of veg we serve to children every year. Read full pledge.

Harvester

We are ensuring that our children’s meals include at least 2 portions of veg, through veg starters and a minimum of 1 veg portion in the main meal item and through our free salad bar for children. Because this is already something we are doing, for our pledge we commit to aiming for continuous progress to increase the portions of veg we make available to children every year. Read full pledge. 

Ikea

We are ensuring that all children’s meals include at least two portions of veg, through both veg crudites and a minimum of one veg side and veg within the main meal item. All of our children’s meals are aligned with PHE’s nutritional guidelines, and we also offer free veg baby pouches in our restaurants for all of IKEA customers. With our pledge, we commit to aiming for continuous progress to increase the portions of veg we make available to children every year. Read full pledge. 

Leon

We are ensuring that our children’s meals include at least two portions of veg. Because children’s meals are only a small proportion of our sales, we would like to commit to an overall increase in servings of veg. With our pledge, we commit to aiming for continuous progress to increase the portions of veg in our menus every year. Read full pledge.

S A Brain & Co Ltd

We pledge to increase the portions of veg in children’s meals from one portion to two, working to implement in 30-40 of our restaurants in year one. We also commit to training our staff to enable a culture that supports veg choices and therefore promotes vegetable consumption with our customers. Read full pledge.

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board

Cardiff and Vale UHB commit to increasing the number of portions of veg we sell in our flagship staff and visitor restaurant, Y Gegin, as part of a wider programme of work to  develop healthy options and menu items to ensure a 75% – 25% split in favour of healthy options available at all Health Board catering outlets.  We will monitor progress using our Audit Tool to assess compliance and volume of veg sold. We will also deliver accredited training to Catering Staff to improve their knowledge and confidence to promote healthy options with customers and display the winning Poster in GP surgeries and on hospital screens. Read full pledge

Aldi

We will run 12 advertising campaigns to specifically promote veg consumption through the Aldi Super 6. We commit to putting vegetables in higher footfall areas in our stores and dedicating more space to them. We pledge to provide additional promotional space to vegetables, with the ambition of increasing consumption. We aim to increase the amount of vegetables in our online recipes. Read full pledge

Coop

On top of our existing work to promote veg consumption, we pledge to include a weekly feature on our social media of vegetables and advertise at least one seasonal vegetable in our magazine, online and on our social media every month. We will promote Peas Please to our customers and indicate which cooking sauces include one of your five a day where possible. We will put vegetables at the top of the agenda when planning retail new product design across all our food categories and increase veg options in our lunchtime meal deals. Read full pledge

Lidl

We pledge to increase our range of fun sized veg to make it more appealing to children; to include one portion of veg (80g) in every ready meal or an equivalent serving suggestion on pack; to include two portions of veg in all our online recipes and to promote veg in store, online and on printed promotional materials.

We will also continue with our other commitments such as putting veg alongside fruit at the front of our new stores and promoting more than six types of vegetables per month through ‘pick of the week’. Read full pledge

Simply Fresh

We pledge to make sure our side dish in evening meal deals always includes both a salad and a vegetable. We will ensure that all retail main-course recipes published across all advertising space includes at least 2 portions of veg. We will do more veg adverts and make them even more appealing, advertising veg weekly on social media  and at least monthly through both print and digital channels. We will put vegetables in higher footfall parts of the store (including through chilled checkouts) and set aside more space for them. We will dedicate promotional space to at least one vegetable line per week.  We also pledge to make it easier for people with Healthy Start vouchers to spend them on fruit and veg. Read full pledge

Waitrose

We pledge to finding new ways of inspiring our customers to incorporate vegetables into their and their family’s diets. We pledge to put vegetables at the top of the agenda of new product development and commit to recommending other vegetable options to our online shoppers. We also commit to positioning vegetables in high footfall areas of our stores. Read full pledge.

Association of Convenience Stores (ACS)

We pledge to incentivise retailers to sell more veg by sponsoring a new award at the Retail Industry Awards, Convenience Retail Awards, and HIM CTP Awards. The award will recognise and reward convenience retailers who increase sales and encourage consumption of fresh fruit and vegetables. ​Read full pledge

Chefs@School

We pledge to continue to develop our educational resources and to inspire and teach about vegetables in every classroom session that our volunteers undertake in schools. We will do this by developing new vegetable-based recipes for schools for both our Healthy Snack Workshops and our Soupathon Project, we will also continue to develop a legacy for the projects by delivering teacher CPD sessions on Grow, Cook Eat projects. We anticipate 6,000 children will be reached by these activities. Read full pledge

Horticulture Forum

We pledges to ensure that fruit and vegetable growers are represented when lobbing government on horticulture issues that affect their business. The Forum pledges to continue to promote local fruit and vegetables to children and adults as long as they continue to exhibit at Balmoral Show. The Forum will also use it’s Facebook Page to post and endorse vegetable promotions. Finally the Forum will also ensure that incoming office bearers are aware and committed to delivering the pledge. Read full pledge.

Saffron

We will promote Peas Please among all of our clients (who operate in excess of 5000 UK sites) and aim to engage directly with them between October 2018 and October 2019 to encourage them to take action to move towards 2 portions of veg included as standard in a main meal. We will support our clients to monitor their progress via innovative reports that can help them to evidence the increasing amount of veg they are buying. Read full pledge.

Soil Association

We pledge to ask all restaurants participating in our Out to Lunch campaign (25 of the UK’s largest chains) to include two portions of veg in every children’s meal and to support menu development to this end. If just half the chains on the league table achieve this it will mean 100 million children’s meal options served with extra veg this year. Read full pledge

Sustainable Restaurant Association

We pledge to continue encouraging members and the restaurant sector at large to increase the amount of veg they sell, through our ‘More Veg and Better Meat’ and ‘Kids Veg Out’ campaigns from 2017, and future campaigns in the coming years. Read full pledge

Ulster Farmer's Union (UFU)

The Ulster Farmers’ Union recognise the importance of fruit and vegetable production in Northern Ireland through its contribution to the local economy, the environment and the health of consumers. The UFU is committed to supporting growers’ build resilient, sustainable and profitable businesses through our policy influence in order to increase fruit and vegetable production and subsequently consumption in NI. The UFU pledges to create a vibrant image of fruit and vegetables through social media, local press and grower consumer interactions events.  Read full pledge.

Bidfood

We pledge to include two portions of vegetables as part of the main meals available within our canteens, in a bid to help feed the 5,000 (Bidfood employees). As well as this, we’re looking to increase the amount of veg based snacks available across our business.

Our Food Development team will begin to develop customer recipes that include hidden vegetables, as well as how to swap ingredients for vegetables that don’t increase the cost of the meal for consumers.

We also pledge to promote vegetables through our marketing channels, where possible. Read full pledge.

GroentenFruit Huis (Fresh Produce Centre), The Netherlands

The Dutch vegetable industry, united in the GroentenFruit Huis (Fresh Produce Centre) commit to focus on innovation of product and services in their business with the United Kingdom, with the aim of increasing consumption and to promote a healthy diet, for children in particular. Efforts will continue to provide more attractive, sustainable and high quality products, also in terms of packaging, labelling and ​marketing. Best practices for driving increased consumption in the wider society (such as healthcare) will be actively shared with UK partners by the Dutch National Action Plan for Fruit and Vegetables​. Read full pledge

Aramark

We are ensuring to increase the servings of veg by 10% by July 2020 (veg in this case follows government’s Eatwell guidelines, so does not include pulses or white potatoes) at two sites.

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PwC BaxterStorey

We pledge to increase the overall percentage of fruit and vegetables in the meals offered via BaxterStorey restaurants in PwC’s offices across the UK, from 15% to 25% by June 2020.

We’ll be testing activities such as: dedicated vegetarian and vegan options, fruit and veg mini-mart stands in offices for easier healthy snacking and Celebrate the Seasons ‘hero’ veg campaigns.

Across the wider PwC community, we’ll raise awareness of the campaign via internal channels and produce quarterly e-recipe cards, encouraging our employees to be vegetable trailblazers at home as well as work. Read full pledge

The University of Edinburgh

We will increase the amount of veg served across our catering service, by adding more servings of veg to pre-prepared grab n’ go menu items and increasing doubling the number of veg side-serving options in our retail (hot food) outlets. Ultimately, we will increase the average weight of vegetables used in our recipes from 90 grams to 150 grams per serving. We will also promote vegetables to students through Cook Along videos and Cooking Workshops. Read full pledge

University of South Wales

We will increase our veg offering across University of South Wales run outlets by 15% by 2023. We will do this by building in two portions of vegetables into main meals as standard, offering more vegetable based options on the salad bar, offering a free veg side with every main meal, altering our meat based recipes to include a higher proportion of vegetables and improving the communication available to the consumer to inform them that they can benefit from a reduced price for a salad as part of a main meal. Read full pledge.

National Farmers' Union

We’re working hard to secure: continued access to sufficient numbers of workers to pick and pack our crops; a crop protection policy that puts us on a level playing field with the rest of the EU; the continuation and development of the Producer Organisation scheme to support investment in productivity on farm; and commitments from retailers to deliver greater fairness and transparency with their suppliers. Read full pledge

Veg Cities

The Veg Cities programme is part of the Sustainable Food Cities initiative, and focussed on raising the bar of what can be achieved locally on key food issues through combined action of local food partnerships and individuals. All Veg Cities commit to coordinating activity to increase the availability and consumption of vegetables at a local level.

Find out more about our 25 Veg City pledgers.