From 1st Jan 2019 all food provided at catered UCL PALS events went 100% vegetarian. This page documents the timeline of events that led up to that decision & milestone moments after the announcement.
- 31 Oct 2018: PALS Green Impact Team Meeting agree the idea.
- 6 Dec 2018:ÌýInititive proposed and agreed at the PALS Staff Meeting.
- 1ÌýJan 2019: ±õ²Ô¾±³Ù¾±²¹³Ù¾±±¹±ðÌý±ô²¹³Ü²Ô³¦³ó±ð»å.
- 8 Jan 2019:ÌýPledge is tweeted on PALS social media () andÌýUCL Sustainability social media () and by many individuals.
- 9 Jan 2019: UCL Finance followÌýour lead and agreeÌýto go 100% veggie (tweet from ucl Sustainability)
- 9ÌýJan 2019: UCL Experimental Psychology tweetÌýthe news ()
- 11ÌýJan 2019: UCL TweetÌýthe news ()
- 17ÌýJan 2019: Royal Holloway join ()
- 17 Jan 2019: 115Ìýlikes on Twitter for initial announcement post.
- 5 Feb 2019:ÌýUniversity of Auckland’s Optometry Department goes 100% veggie after hearing about our initiative.
- 6 Feb 2019:ÌýBath Psychology decide to go veggie:Ìý
- 31 May 2019: The UCL Bartlett School of Environment, Energy and Resources announces it will only order vegetarian/vegan catering.
- 18ÌýJuly 2019: UCL Senior Management Team (SMT) announce that they will be going 100% vegetarian with their catering.
- 19ÌýJuly 2019: The UCL Office of the Vice-Provost (Advancement) announces that the UCL "It’s All Academic" festival on 5th October will be serving only 100% vegetarian food! They will be ordering over 1,000 portions of food!
- 24ÌýNovember 2019: UCL School of Management with their catering.
- 14 January 2020: UCL Ear Institute ratify a voteÌýto only provide vegetarian catering.
- 20ÌýMarch 2020:ÌýUCL Institute of Ophthalmology join the PALS Powered by Plants campaign and go meat-free.
- 30 July 2021:ÌýUCL Faculty of Brain Sciences announces it's joining our 100% veggie campaign.
- 28 April 2022:ÌýUCL Division of Psychiatry sign up to the campaign.
- 23 May 2022: UCL confirms that, as a University, we are now providing over 95% vegetarian food for all hospitality events.
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