LACA Member Login
Dates for your Diary:
11-03-10
LACA North West Region Annual General Meeting
17-03-10
Welsh: Regional Meeting
18-03-10
South West: Regional Event
18-03-10
West Midlands: AGM Dinner and Awards Evening
23-03-10
London & South East Regional Spring Business Meeting and AGM
23-03-10
London & South East Regional Spring Business Meeting and AGM
24-03-10
LACA East of England Regional Meeting and AGM
24-03-10
AGM and Regional Event
04-05-10
London & South East - Late Spring Business Meeting and Social Event
04-05-10
London & South East - Late Spring Business Meeting and Social Event
05-05-10
South West: Regional Committee Meeting
05-05-10
London & South East Committee meeting
05-05-10
London & South East Committee meeting
06-05-10
Welsh: Regional Committee Meeting
11-05-10
School Chef of the Year Competition National Final
Sheffield City College
16-06-10
Welsh: Regional Meeting
Welcome to the Local Authority Caterers Association Website!
LACA is the professional body representing 1000 catering managers and suppliers who provide catering services to all sectors of Local Authorities in England, Wales and Scotland. Local authority caterers are responsible for providing more than 2.5 million school meals a day, civic catering such as town halls and leisure centres, for social services catering such as residential homes for the elderly, day centres and meals on wheels.
News
8 March 2010
Cucina school chefs win triple gold at Salon Culinaire
A trio of Cucina's top chefs each scooped a gold medal at Hotelympia last week.… More…
5 March 2010
School chef scoops gold medal at Hotelympia
Andrew Willcox, a chef at Cheadle Hulme School in Cheshire, has beaten hundreds of chefs to win the Sodexo Chef of the Year title in a competition held at Hotel… More…
5 March 2010
3663 launches catering equipment website
3663 Catering Equipment, part of 3663 First for Foodservice, has launched a dedicated catering equipment website - www.3663cateringequipment.co.uk - to make pu… More…
News from LACA
Dear LACA Colleagues,
Make sure you read this week's Caterer & Hotelkeeper magazine for the launch of the 'School Meals Matter' campaign. This campaign is a joint initiative with LACA and the magazine.
The magazine is getting behind our sector with a two pronged approach, galvanising support for the sector from the hospitality industry and raising awareness to an incoming Government of the importance of the continuation of the school lunch grant.
We will post further information on the web site and suggest ways you might get involved in due course. This is excellent support and we are very pleased the Caterer and Hotelkeeper is supporting our sector in this way.
Kind regards.
Beverley Baker
LACA National Chairman
Click below to sign the School Meals Matter letter now!
LACA becomes a Change4Life partner
LACA is delighted to advise Members that the Association has been officially accepted by the Government as a Change4Life Partner, effective immediately.
Being a Change4Life Partner entitles LACA to carry the Campaign logo on key LACA activities such as National School Meals Week and School Chef of the Year as well as to have a direct link to the Change4Life website from both the LACA and National School Meals Week websites.
By becoming a Partner, LACA commits to supporting the Change4Life Healthy Weight/Healthy Lives messages of healthier eating and more physical activity, as part of our promotional work.
For more on this you can click on the link.
LACA School Chef of the Year 2010
The Results
Click to take a look at the following SCOTY Regional Final Results:
South East
London
South West
Wales
West Midlands
Eastern
Yorks & Humber
North East & Scotland
The Competition
This annual competition puts the preparation, cooking, creativity and presentation skills of school chefs to the test.
The competition is open to all kitchen-based staff employed by organisations that are full members of LACA and are involved with the daily preparation of school meals.
Each entrant is required to produce, in just one and a half hours, a healthy balanced two- course meal, that would appeal to 11 year olds in school.
Click below to view the latest information on the 2010 competition and to view a video of the School Chef of the Year 2009 national final.
Finishing Touches 2010
The Finishing Touches Display Salon will take place during the LACA conference on Wednesday 7th and Thursday 8th July at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole.
Finishing Touches is a static culinary display salon organised by LACA in association with the Craft Guild of Chefs.
Now in its fourth year the competition is aimed at all levels of staff employed in any aspect of local authority catering capable of producing excellent craft pieces. It provides entrants with the opportunity to show off their skills which would not normally be seen during their everyday profession.
Two new categories have been introduced for the 2010 competition - Bread Rolls and Floral Sugar Work - giving eight classes in total for this year.
Click below to download the 2010 Finishing Touches entry brochure
