BOOMs are back: entries now open!🥳 Enter in the Best of Organic Market (BOOM) Awards, the UK's only awards that recognise and celebrate the organic industry. These awards are designed for everyone championing the organic industry, with new and improved categories 🏆 What’s more, we're thrilled to announce our headline sponsor is Ocado Retail with exciting benefits for BOOMs entrants: 🤝 A chance to be introduced to the Ocado buying and Roots teams 🏅 Free entry to the ‘Ocado Roots’ awards There are so many benefits to entering the #BOOMAwards, whether it's organic sector recognition, or showcasing your products as the best in the organic market 🛒. Act quickly! Early Bird entries get a 10% discount to enter throughout the whole month of December 🐓 Find out how to enter: https://lnkd.in/e4yeJ35b Thank you to our sponsors English Tea Shop, Robin Appel Ltd, Abel & Cole | B Corp™, RBOrganic Ltd and to our partner Ocado Retail for helping us celebrate the best of organic! #BOOMAwards #Organic
Soil Association
Non-profit Organization Management
Bristol, England 34,846 followers
Soil Association is the charity that digs deeper to transform the way we eat, farm and care for our natural world
About us
Soil Association is an environmental charity and Soil Association Certification is a leading organic certifier. In 1946, the Soil Association started out on a single farm. Now, we influence the government on UK food, farming and forestry policy, we support businesses to grow and serve sustainable food, and we inspire everyone to be a force for nature.
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http://www.soilassociation.org
External link for Soil Association
- Industry
- Non-profit Organization Management
- Company size
- 201-500 employees
- Headquarters
- Bristol, England
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 1946
- Specialties
- Organic Farming, Promotion of healthy eating, Certification of organic products, Protection of Wildlife and the environment, Sustainability, Membership charity, Forestry, farming innovation, Soil, Campaigning, fundraising, and producer support
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51 Victoria Street
Bristol, England BS1 6, GB
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3rd Floor, Osborne House
1 Osborne Terrace
Edinburgh, EH12 5HG, GB
Employees at Soil Association
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The government should aim for 10% of farmland in England to be organic if they want to reach their climate and nature goals. 📣 This week we’ve written to the farming minister calling for an Organic Action Plan to help boost organic farming in England, with backing from UK environment and wildlife groups such as RSPB, The Wildlife Trusts and National Trust. Despite the ongoing pressures for food and farming, there is no escaping the uncomfortable truth: the budget is tight, and this is unlikely to change as we move into 2025. This raises serious questions for the future of farming - particularly when considering the transition to much-needed climate- and nature-friendly practices. Read more: https://lnkd.in/efhCaHSn #Organic #Farming #Agriculture #ClimateChange #Sustainability
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🎉 What a fantastic way to wrap up our first year of partnership with Ocado Retail! 🎉 We’ve been truly inspired by the hands-on support from Ocado employees at Woodoaks Farm throughout 2024. To end our year, we had the pleasure of spending an afternoon with Jonathan Wiseman's People and Legal Team, who rolled up their sleeves and (armed with saws) got involved in some ‘scalloping.’ 🌿 This vital conservation activity involves clearing scallop-shaped sections along the woodland edge, creating the perfect habitat for shrubs, herbs, and grasses to thrive—and providing essential shelter for wildlife. From the launching of 5 Demo Farms to support farmers with knowledge of nature and climate friendly farming practices to supporting the amplification of the voices of those working day in and out in our food system, through our Farm to Fork Ambassadors program – it has been a brilliant first year of partnership. A huge thank you to everyone who has contributed this year. Here's to continuing this great work in 2024! 💚 #FarmtoFork #NatureFriendlyFarming
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The #BOOMAwards are back for 2025, and we are delighted to be partnering with Ocado Retail. 🏆 Ocado have the most organic lines of any UK retailer, and are on the lookout for new and exciting organic brands and products. All Food & Drink and Beauty & Wellbeing product entrants will be in with the chance to meet the Ocado buying team for a ‘Dragons Den’-style session. Plus, if you are certified with Soil Association Certification and have an organic sales turnover of under £85K ⬇, you are entitled to one free entry! 🎊 Don't miss out - enter your organic product before the 3rd February 2025 deadline. https://lnkd.in/e4yeJ35b #BOOMAwards #OrganicInnovation #Ocado #Opportunity #OrganicBrands
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We’re excited to share that Soil Association Certification has been shortlisted for SME of the Year at the edie Awards 2025. The edie Awards celebrate the positive impacts that organisations can have on the environment and society. It’s great be recognised for what we do as the UK’s leading organic certifier, as well as all the incredible clients we work with who are striving for the highest standards of sustainability and integrity. Find out more: https://lnkd.in/eJnJ3eRH #Sustainability #edieAwards2025 #SMEoftheYear #SoilAssociationCertification
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Nominations are open for the Best of Organic Market (BOOM) Organic for All awards! 🏆 These free-to-enter awards are celebrating the individuals, businesses and organisations within our communities who are working to make organic affordable, accessible and available to all. The Organic for All awards are free to enter and include these categories: Best Organic Gardener Best Organic Champion Best Organic Supply Network Best of Organic Out of Home Best of Organic in Communities Best Organic Retailer You can enter yourself or your organisation or nominate someone else within your community (Best Organic Champion or Best Organic Gardener only). Entries close 3rd February! More info: https://lnkd.in/e4yeJ35b #BOOMAwards Ocado Retail
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Amazing example of how our free to use carbon calculator tool, Cool Food Pro, can support positive change. Thanks to Deloitte for the support in making this incredible tool a reality. It's delivering true impact, that matters.
Today we’d like to talk about the incredible work Synnwyr Bwyd Cymru / Food Sense Wales have done through their Welsh Veg in Schools pilot! 94% of vegetables in Welsh school meals come from outside Wales, and none of it is organic. Welsh Veg in Schools sought to tackle this, by purchasing 40 tonnes of organic, Welsh-grown vegetables for free school meals in six local authorities throughout 2024. This had an enormous impact on the environment, children’s wellbeing, and the Welsh economy. The environmental impact of the scheme was calculated using Cool Food Pro, our free online carbon calculator! By using our “buy local” and “buy organic” targets, Food Sense Wales were able to calculate the exact environmental savings of the pilot. By buying local and organic vegetables, they saved four tonnes of CO2e! They also increased their biodiversity gain by 35%, and completely eliminated their impact on water quality due to the removal of synthetic pesticides in organic farming! This is an incredible impact, and one that should rightly be celebrated – congratulations to Food Sense Wales, Castell Howell Foods Ltd, the Bridging the Gap programme run by Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming, Alexandra Rose Charity and Growing Communities, Business Wales - Busnes Cymru's Farming Connect scheme, and everyone else involved! 👏 This pilot used eight suppliers through the wholesaler Castell Howell Foods Ltd, and Food Sense Wales hope to increase this to 100 over the next five years. This would potentially save over 60 tonnes of CO2e every year! This is an amazing goal, and one we’d love to see achieved. Good luck! If you’d like to see how you too can change your purchasing to support your local area and reduce your environmental impact, sign up for free today at coolfoodpro.net! 📸 by Aled Llewelyn/Food Sense Wales #sustainablecatering #greentransformation #schoolmeals #organicfood #catering #localfood #environment #sustainability
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Antibiotic resistance is a growing problem, killing 1.27 million people worldwide annually. This year, legislation was introduced banning the routine use of antibiotics in farming, and on using antibiotics to compensate for poor hygiene and inadequate animal husbandry. Are caterers, restaurants and supermarkets doing enough to ensure their suppliers are compliant with new UK legislation? Cóilín Nunan, scientific adviser to the Alliance to Save Our Antibiotics, investigates. 👇
The antibiotics policies of the food industry
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A huge thank you to our new partner Barnett Waddingham. We're delighted to be working with them. 🙏 What better day to launch a partnership than World Soil Day last Thursday, when we delivered a lunchtime session to Barnett Waddingham employees all about the power of healthy soil! 🪱
We're very excited to share the news of our new partnership with Soil Association, a charity championing soil and all it does for us. Did you know that: 🌍 Soil holds more carbon than the atmosphere? 🌎 Over a quarter of Earth's biodiversity lives in soil? 🌏 UK soil holds more water than all UK rivers and lakes combined? Over the next year we'll be supporting their work to futureproof the health of our communities, animals, plants and climate through transforming food and farming to more nature-friendly systems. We'll be bringing their work to life for everyone at BW through talks, events and activities – all with a focus on soil, sustainability and doing right by our planet.
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