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We hope you have enjoyed a happy and healthy start to 2014, and that it continues for the remainder of what promises to be an exhilarating year as Scotland welcomes the world to join in the homecoming celebrations, as well as hosting both the Commonwealth Games and Ryder Cup.

Over recent months we have been working with the Commonwealth Games Official Committee with regard to catering in official venues and promoting the award to local businesses – and you can find out more below.

We have been working in partnership with the Healthy Working Lives award and encourage you to have a look at the services they offer.

If the long evenings affect your mood in the winter, the MIND food guide may offer some valuable advice.

Read all about the inspirational kebab takeaway in Oban that has achieved the award.

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Embracing the XX Commonwealth Games

As a project supporting Legacy 2014, the healthyliving award will play its part in delivering a lasting legacy for the whole of Scotland and maximising on the opportunities before, during and after the Games to make it easier for people to eat healthily when eating out.

We, along with other national agencies and bodies, have played an important role in the development of the Glasgow 2014’s Games Food Charter. The Food Charter, launched at the end of November, provides guidance to suppliers, including caterers, to meet the standards that underpin Games commitments.

One strand of this is healthy eating, and the award will be working with the CWG official venues to encourage them to meet healthyliving award status in the run-up to the Games.

The award team will also be focusing on catering businesses around official venues and will be running an advertising and marketing campaign to encourage new businesses to register during January and February.

To encourage local businesses to get involved, the team will be hosting a series of breakfast seminars. The aim is to encourage caterers in areas where people will be attending Commonwealth Games events this summer to register for a healthyliving award.

Businesses that achieve an award around official CWG venues will be able to demonstrate their support to delivering a healthy legacy by serving healthier food.

‘The healthyliving award team will be pulling out all the stops to make sure that people attending Commonwealth Games events next summer can easily find healthy food on their way to, from and inside the venues,’ said Anne Lee, HLA Project Manager.

‘We know that there are many catering establishments located near to Commonwealth Games venues which could easily achieve a healthyliving award and we’d like to recognise their commitment to serving customers healthy and nutritious food.’

More information on the Food Charter can be found at www.glasgow2014.com/document/food-charter

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issue 28:
Winter 2013/14
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