Our
high streets and town centres are in trouble. Over the last ten years
changes in shopping habits have hit the high street hard. When combined
with a slowdown in consumer spending, banks reluctant to lend, and
increasingly high rental and business rates, many high street businesses
are struggling.
The NFWI has launched the SOS for High Streets campaign after a
resolution calling for an end to the decline of our high streets was
passed at the 2013 AGM with a majority of 87%. The challenges facing our
high streets and town centres reach to the heart of all of our
communities.. - See more at:
http://www.thewi.org.uk/campaigns/current-campaigns-and-initiatives/sos-for-high-streets#sthash.9VNd6BO6.dpuf
Our
high streets and town centres are in trouble. Over the last ten years
changes in shopping habits have hit the high street hard. When combined
with a slowdown in consumer spending, banks reluctant to lend, and
increasingly high rental and business rates, many high street businesses
are struggling.
The NFWI has launched the SOS for High Streets campaign after a
resolution calling for an end to the decline of our high streets was
passed at the 2013 AGM with a majority of 87%. The challenges facing our
high streets and town centres reach to the heart of all of our
communities.. - See more at:
http://www.thewi.org.uk/campaigns/current-campaigns-and-initiatives/sos-for-high-streets#sthash.9VNd6BO6.dpuf
SOS for high streets and town centres
Food Matters
The WI calls on all supermarkets to sign up to a voluntary agreement to avoid food waste, thereby passing surplus food onto charities thus helping to address the issue of increasing food poverty in the UK
Proposed by Snailbeach WI, Shropshire Federation
83% of delegates voted in support of the NFWIs 2016 resolution to ‘avoid food waste, address food poverty.’ The resolution calls on supermarkets to sign up to a voluntary agreement to avoid food waste, as well as to pass surplus food on to charities to help address the issue of food poverty in the UK.
As a first step in the campaign, the NFWI has produced a report and manifesto detailing ways in which supermarkets can adjust their practices to help consumers reduce food waste in the home. From retail practices which encourage overbuying, such as promoting multi-buys and multipacks, to confusing date and product labelling, which can mean consumers are throwing out food prematurely, the report sets out a range of ways supermarkets can help reduce food waste in the home.
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