Recipe 4 Health
Recipe 4 Health
Recipe 4 Health
We're working with Lancashire Trading Standards & food businesses to help tackle childhood obesity and improve health and well-being!
Recipe 4 Health is a Lancashire Trading Standards scheme for caterers. At each level, you have to show you are compliant with food safety, food standards, licensing and age restricted sales legislation. You will also need to have an awareness of healthy eating, environmental issues, allergens and alcohol issues.
Benefits for your business
- Businesses will be supported to make positive yet simple changes to their menus, policies, and practice to support the health of the local community and for the benefit of the local environment.
- Businesses with the award will receive online promotion on the Lancashire Trading Standards website, which has full public access and is promoted across the country, and on our website, below.
- Businesses with the award will receive a promotion pack containing a certificate and other eye-catching materials to display in premises along with a detailed support pack to help businesses maintain the award.
How to apply
There are three levels to Recipe 4 Health - Bronze, Silver and Gold.
- You must apply for each level of the award – for example, if you would like to apply for Silver, you must have the Bronze Recipe 4 Health Award first!
- You must have attained Food Hygiene Rating of at least 3 to apply for the bronze award.
- Please fill in the self-assessment form below. The form is then sent to Trading Standards. If you successfully qualify for the award. This should take no longer than 1 month.
- Complete the self-assessment form carefully, answering yes/no and filling in the information requested. If any questions are not applicable to your business, please write N/A.
- Please provide a copy of your menu with your assessment sheet.
The self-assessment forms can be completed here:
Alternatively you can print the forms and return them to:
Recipe 4 Health Team
Lancashire Trading Standards
County Hall
Pitt Street
Preston
PR1 0LD
Save on postage and paper by filling in the form electronically, save it and email it back to: recipe4health@lancashire.gov.uk.
You can apply to the award at any time of the year. If you have any questions, please contact: recipe4health@lancashire.gov.uk or 01772 532145.
- Recipe 4 Health - Gold award self assessment form
- Recipe 4 Health - Silver award self assessment form
- Recipe 4 Health -Bronze award self assessment form
Further information
For further information including supporting information, membership criteria & businesses with awards in Lancashire please see the Recipe 4 Health website.
Last updated: 04 March 2024