assist commonwealth promotion assist seminar 2013

Alan Cunningham

ASSIST FM

Assist FM is the Association for all the Facilities Management providers within Scotland’s 32 Local authorities. This covers provision of school meals and council catering (including some leisure outlets, museums and galleries, and function catering for larger events)

Initiatives for 2013/14

• The Commonwealth Games Promotion

• Scottish School Cook of The Year

•Development of school meals website

www.scottishschoolmeals.co.uk

• ASSIST Awards

• ASSIST CONFERENCE 2014

The Commonwealth Games Promotion

The Culinary School Games….

The promotion will fall into three distinct areas:

1. Local Authority promotion and competition

2. Scottish School Pupil recipe competition

3. Educational downloads

Local Authority Promotion and Competition

 This will involve the creation of Commonwealth

Countries’ main meal recipes.

How it will work….

The local authority would create a recipe for one of their second teams:

•Aberdeen City would create a recipe for Cameroon or the Solomon Islands

•North Ayrshire would create a recipe for Nigeria or St Helena

•Glasgow has not been allocated a second team so they would create a Scottish recipe.

How it will work….•Recipes Judged by ASSIST.

•All recipes will feature on an electronic recipe book on

www.scottishschoolmeals.co.uk website.

•The top ten will compete in a ‘cook-off’

•The cook off will take place at The Cook School Scotland March 2014

•The top three will be given Gold, Silver and Bronze medals.

•Prizes to be confirmed

•Filmed - Scottish School meals ‘YouTube’ channel

International School Meals Day

6th March

2014

Promoting the competition….

The Culinary School Games will be promoted via…

1. Directly through ASSIST FM members – i.e., the local authority catering providers

2. Through the www.scottishschoolmeals.co.uk website

3. Through the Game on Scotland website - www.gameonscotland.org

4. Our Sponsors McCain, CRB & Premier Foods

Scottish School Pupil Recipe Competition…..

•Interaction is Key - through www.scottishschoolmeals.co.uk and www.gameonscotland.org

•Open to all pupils in Scotland

•Enter their commonwealth recipe into a competition

•Prizes - win an ipad mini – (prize numbers dependant on sponsorship).

•The Best 10 Recipes will be featured on a special pupil’s recipe section of the Commonwealth recipe book.

Educational legacy…..

•Primary School downloads available from •www.scottishschoolmeals.co.uk website

•International School Meals day falls on •World Book Day

•British Council/World Food organisation involvement – primary and lesson plans for International School Meals week.

•Skype in the classroom

Clydes RecipesAs a precursor to the event Glasgow 2014 will feature 10 recipes on their website – Clyde’s recipes – with a link back to www.scottishschoolmeals.co.uk.

These will be recipes created by 10 individual authorities as follows:

•Argyll & Bute – Cyprus

•Dundee – South Africa

•East Ayrshire – Australia

•East Dunbartonshire – Jamaica

•East Renfrewshire – Tuvalu

•Fife – Malawi

•Highland – Barbados

•North Ayrshire – Nigeria

•Stirling – Malta

•West Dunbartonshire – Uganda

www.scottishschoolmeals.co.uk

School Cook of The Year

2013 Winner Nikki McNaught

ASSIST CONFERENCE 2014

28-29 August 2014 Caledonian University

QUESTIONS?