Sustainability

We are ensuring sustainability is at the heart of our business, with a series of sustainability pledges across our iconic and exclusive restaurants, bars and events venues.

We have pledged to buy the best ingredients available, working with British farmers to ensure that up to 90% of all seasonal fruit and vegetables used in the menus is grown in the UK.

Our sustainable practices pledges include an assurance to reduce the use of plastic, switching to metal cutlery, china crockery and glassware for food consumed in our cafes. Where disposable packaging is unavoidable, it will be minimised and aligned with the company’s strict waste management protocols. Furthermore, we have also completely eliminated the use of plastic straws across all our venues and events.

Matthew Thomas, Managing Director, says, “Our aim is to recruit and retain the best industry professionals by providing competitive pay, as well as an excellent and safe working environment.”

In order to tackle food waste, we have introduced a set of food waste reduction rules and a new, seasonal minimal-waste conferencing and events menu. Darren Deadman tells us more.

Blenheim Palace and Searcys are joining the fight against food waste with the help of an innovative app. Launched in Copenhagen in June 2016, ‘Too Good To Go’ is the world’s largest food waste fighting app, connecting businesses with unsold food, to local consumers who purchase, collect and eat it.

We have partnered with Extract Coffee Roasters, a sustainable roaster in Bristol. Each batch is 100% speciality-grade Arabica coffee, roasted and checked by hand to ensure consistent flavour for every customer.

We have partnered up with the sustainable Champagne house Drappier to deliver their premium-quality Carte D’Or Brut NV across all of our events. In 2016 Drappier became the first and only carbon neutral Champagne house.

Using seasonal and high-quality produce, our chefs reimagine and reinvent the modern British dishes we all know and love. The recently awarded Two Star Food Made Good rating by the Sustainable Restaurant Association (SRA) accreditation is a testament to how provenance and sustainability are at the heart of our business.

We are proud to serve Freedom Brewery beers at our sites. All beers are vegan-certified.

Freedom Brewery has an energy efficient Brewhouse. All water used in the brewing process and within the brewery is recycled through a natural anaerobic digestion reed bed system where it is filtered and empties back into the local river system.

Freedom Brewery is the only recommended beer of the Sustainable Restaurant Association

“Freedom Brewery is one of Britain’s most sustainable and largest independent beer makers, and as such we’re proud to recommend them to SRA members.”

– The SRA

As part of our goal to reduce use of plastic, we have introduced KeepCups at our cafes, offering visitors a free coffee if they purchase one of our KeepCups.

We celebrate English sparkling wines, working closely with family-run Nyetimber in South Downs, Greyfriars in Surrey and Furleigh Estate in Dorset, and have paired them with our local menus.

William Curley, four-times winner of The Academy of Chocolate’s Best British Chocolatier title, has created a selection of bespoke chocolate flavours for Searcys restaurants and events. All our cooking chocolate is organic, Fairtrade and Rainforest Alliance-certified.

BRINGING CLEAN WATER TO THE WORLD

Our sustainable water supplier, BELU provide our venues with 100% carbon neutral bottled water. Helping to transform lives worldwide with clean water, all of Belu profits go to the charity WaterAid. Searcys will be helping to make a difference to the 884 million people living without clean water in the world.

In July 2019, 30 Euston Square and Searcys joined forces to host New Horizon Youth Centre’s annual summer fundraiser. New Horizon Youth Centre is a registered charity founded in 1967 by Lord Longford to address the needs of vulnerable or young people at risk.