Bo’ness Academy’s Food Love Story

The motion

That the Parliament recognises Bo’ness Academy and its community café project, which is supported by the Bo’ness branch of Tesco and the food redistribution charity, FareShare; understands that Tesco, as part of its Community Food Connection programme, supply surplus food, which could potentially go to waste, to Bo’ness Academy, which uses the food to make meals for its community café; recognises that Tesco and FareShare’s programme has contributed to over one million meals being donated to community groups across Scotland so far, and over 10 million meals across the UK; appreciates the work put in by pupils and staff at Bo’ness Academy for the café, leading to the advent of its now famous No Waste Banana Bread; congratulates Tesco on securing a nationwide advertising opportunity, which saw the efforts of the branch in Bo’ness and Bo’ness Academy screened for the first time on ITV/STV during an episode of Emmerdale on 14 June 2017; recognises the impact that these programmes have on tackling food waste, where nearly 380,000 tonnes of food and drink are thrown away in Scotland, costing nearly £1 billion; calls on the Scottish Government to continue the work that it is doing to cut Scotland’s food waste by one third before 2025, and wishes Bo’ness Academy, Tesco and FareShare continued success and progress with their combined efforts to tackle food waste.

No recorded vote on this motion. Most motions are never debated, and many that are debated are agreed without a division. Vote records are published from 2011.

SNP 19 Lab 1

Party shown is each supporter’s party when the motion was published.

No contribution in the Official Report cites S5M-06119 by reference.