Promote your care service to one-third of a million prospective residents
The popularity of vegan and vegetarian diets is growing at an unprecedented rate in the UK. Are you equipped to cater for the rising number of vegan and vegetarian residents? Or are they passing your care establishment by?
1 in 3 Brits have stopped or reduced their meat consumption.
Since February 2020 the number of vegans in the UK has grown by 40%.
Older people (65 to 79 years) are 40% leading the way. They are twice as likely to have reduced their meat consumption as 18- to 24-year-olds. An estimated 14% of vegans and vegetarians in Great Britain are aged 65 or over.
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Leading the way for care facilities and food suppliers
It is important that the care sector responds to the increasing demand for vegan and vegetarian dishes. As the leading authority on diet and healthy living advice for older vegans and vegetarians, Vegetarian for Life is here to help you successfully meet the challenge.
One of the charity’s major goals is to improve the standard of vegan and vegetarian catering by promoting its UK List – a directory of care facilities and food suppliers that follow its best practice guide, pledging to cater well and ethically for older vegans and vegetarians.
Why should you join Vegetarian for Life’s UK List? The benefits of working with us:
FOR YOU l Make it easier for your catering team and staff with support from our experienced team of vegetarian and vegan chefs. l Bespoke training that can be held at any of your sites. l Reach new audiences with a free listing on our online directory of vegetarian- and vegan-friendly care establishments. l Recipe and menu development. l Nutrition and dietary advice. l Support for difficult situations, such as caring for a vegetarian or vegan living with dementia. l Regular updates and free resources from VfL, including a membership certificate and Vegetarian for Life window sticker, which lets visitors to your home know you’re a member of our UK List and are leading the way in inclusivity for older veggies. l Exposure to new audiences via promotion on social media, our blog, and at relevant events.
FOR YOUR RESIDENTS l A sign of trust that vegetarians and vegans will be catered for with the utmost care. l Reassurance that your care home will be able to provide nutritionally sound and diverse vegetarian, and where applicable, vegan menu options. l A listing on our online directory makes it easier for potential vegetarian or vegan residents to find your care home. In order to join the UK List, applicants must read and accept a Code of Good Practice, committing them to support the dietary needs of their vegan and vegetarian residents. To read the Code or to find out more about our Basic and Premium Accredited Membership options, please visit: vegetarianforlife.org.uk/uklist/about
Dietary diversity in the care sector
A guide to catering for people with allerg ies, intolerances, and religio us, philosophical and cultural dietary beliefs
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Premium Membership
Vegetarian for Life’s Premium Membership offers extra benefits for your establishment:
l Unlimited access to Vegetarian for Life’s Care catering for older vegetarians and vegans webinar training series for your entire organisation. Certificated and British Dietetic Association accredited. RRP £25 per person. l Up to 14 free places per year on a full-day training course of your choosing. l Independent accreditation of your menus and dishes.
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l Free listing of menus online. l 150 word description of each site on VfL website. l Search engine optimisation allowing each site to appear at the top of area listing on VfL website. l Promotion where applicable at local and national care exhibitions, and on VfL blog and social media channels.
Prices are a one-off fee and are based on number of sites. Please email info@vegetarianforlife.org.uk for more information.
Vegetarian for Life – UK List Application Form
Declaration I have read and understood the Code of Good Practice for members of the VfL – UK List (including the Listing Options) and declare that this establishment will follow it. Listing options chosen (tick as appropriate):
Establishment or Organisation*
(Vg) Vegan
(F) Free range eggs
Address Email Tel
Name
Signed
Date
For and on behalf of (Establishment or Organisation)
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Please indicate how you would like your services listed by ticking as appropriate: Residential care Home care Day care Nursing care Social care Food supplier Dementia care Sheltered housing
* Listing is by individual establishment or organisation. Group listings are welcome. If you are a parent organisation with a number of facilities to add to the UK List, you have a couple of options. Visit vegetarianforlife.org.uk/uk-list/about and follow the link to join. You’ll be prompted to download a CSV file, which you can fill in using Excel or your spreadsheet program of choice. We can then add all of your facilities at once. If you’d prefer, simply drop us an email and we’ll send the CSV file to you. The Vegetarian for Life – UK List will be widely distributed throughout the United Kingdom to vegetarians, vegans, families and carers, and to sympathetic organisations. It will also be available on the VfL website. VfL reserves the right to remove from the List any establishment or organisation which fails to follow the Code of Good Practice.
Data Protection Vegetarian for Life collects the data you have submitted so that we can process your application and inform you of relevant information, in accordance with our privacy statement. Vegetarian for Life may wish to send you information about future courses or services that may be relevant to you; this will not involve your data being passed to any third party. If you are happy for VfL to use your personal data in this way, please tick the box.
I consent to receiving emails and postal correspondence about VfL’s services. Please return the completed application to: Vegetarian for Life, 83 Ducie Street, Manchester M1 2JQ or info@vegetarianforlife.org.uk