Pub firms Peach and Renaissance join Sustainable Restaurant Association
Pub firms Peach and Renaissance have both joined the Sustainable Restaurant Association (SRA).
Renaissance, with six pubs in south London, and Peach, with 15 pubs in the Home Counties and the Midlands, are the latest recruits to an association which now has a membership of more than 700 restaurants, pubs, contract and mobile caterers.
The SRA is already working with Geronimo Inns, Cubitt House, Eat Drink Sleep, Food and Fuel and a number of independent pubs to help them improve their sustainability.
As part of their SRA membership, both Peach and Renaissance will complete the SRA's Sustainability Rating, giving them recognition for what they are doing and providing them with a roadmap for any changes they want to make over the next year.
Hamish Stoddart, co-founder of Peach Pubs, said: "Lee Cash, my co-founder, and I are keen to make the world better and Peach in particular. Having the Sustainable Restaurant Association on our side will definitely help us get there and get there quicker."
Tom Peake, co-owner of Renaissance Pubs, said: "We are delighted to have joined the Sustainable Restaurant Association and look forward to working together in the future for the future.
"Provenance and sustainability is important to us at Renaissance Pubs. We have been serving sustainably sourced fish from English day boats for several years and have invested in a Hampshire farm named Lock's Drove where we are currently raising free-range chickens, pigs and lambs.
By joining forces with the SRA we hope to build on our good working practices and welcome their invaluable advice, guidance, support and practical help."
Nine pubs have been rated as Three Star Sustainability Champions by the SRA to date: Battlesteads, Northumberland; Preston Park Tavern, Brighton; Three Stags, London; Royal Oak, Bishopstone; The Seagrave Arms, Gloucestershire; and the four pubs in the Cubitt House group - the Orange, the Grazing Goat, the Pantechnicon and the Thomas Cubitt, all in London.
By Neil Gerrard
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