Cardiff’s Veg City campaign is driving up veg consumption by changing things on a local level – promoting veg, growing veg, getting more veg into school meals, reducing the amount of veg that is wasted, and so much more.

We are calling on restaurants, retailers, workplaces, schools, growers and restaurants to make a veg pledge. Pledges so far include:

• Cardiff Council are offering an extra portion of veg free of charge in all school meals.
• The Healthy Schools team have produced a Power Up Your Pupils with Veg resource pack for teachers and a Peas Please Parent Pack, to engage primary school children with veg.
• Cardiff Metropolitan University catering have pledged that all meals will include 2 portions of veg and are offering how to cook veg on a budget courses for students and staff.
• Wild Thing Café are promoting veg and are planning a free community supper made from surplus allotment veg.
• Cardiff & Vale University Hospital Board have set up a veg stall at University Hospital Wales and are incorporating more veg in Y Gegin restaurant.

We also created a handy toolkit of ideas and resources to support workplaces to make a veg pledge. Eating veg can have a triple win: increased staff engagement, cost savings and brand reputation.

To find out more contact Cardiff’s Sustainable Food City Co-ordinator pearl.costello@wales.nhs.uk or register to access resources and make a pledge.