Ecotricity, the green energy company headquartered in Stroud and founded by environmentalist and climate activist Dale Vince, has opened the UK's first fully plant-based staff canteen.
The new canteen menu, which has been created by the chefs at Nailsworth-based football club Forest Green Rovers, hopes to provide affordable, sustainable food for the firms hundreds of staff, while also helping to boost their health and reduce everyone's carbon footprints.
Ecotricity employees can tuck in to meals such as vegan burgers, koftas and lasagne, all subsidised to just £4, with plans in the works to offer vegan breakfast options this year, too.
The restaurant at Forest Green Rovers is also fully vegan, carbon neutral and avoids single-use plastic.
Dale, who took over as chairman of Forest Green Rovers in 2010, said: 'We started a canteen at our Ecotricity HQ and unwittingly launched Britain's first fully plant-based workplace canteen it seems.
'We’re serving great food from the chefs at Forest Green Rovers – for just four quid. Affordable, healthy, tasty and planet-friendly. [It] brings our team together and supports their health and wellbeing — and carbon footprints.'
Ecotricity is celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2025, after launching in 1995 as the world's first fully green energy provider.
