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Here at Greggs, we know there’s more to life than making the world’s best Sausage Rolls, that's why we launched The Greggs Pledge.
In 2021, we committed to building stronger, healthier communities and playing our part in making the planet safer and becoming a better business for our colleagues and customers alike.
With just one year left of our current five-year commitments, we’re on a roll to achieving our goals.
Greggs Foundation
You may have already heard about The Greggs Foundation Breakfast Clubs.
They started all the way back in 1999, to ensure that thousands of children could have a healthy start to the day. Breakfast Clubs have been fuelling kids across the nation for a more productive day at school.
In 2024, we supported our 1,015 Breakfast Clubs in feeding more than 75,000 children every school day.
After celebrating 25 amazing years of our Breakfast Club programme, we're rolling out some new changes to create even more opportunities for kids and families in the Greggs Foundation school network.
Starting from April 2025, we’re expanding on our Breakfast Club programme to launch ‘Feeding Brighter Futures’ – a new schools-focussed support programme. Find out more on the Greggs Foundation website.
Food waste
If you know Greggs, you know we really love food - and that’s why we send none of it to landfill. By 2025, we’re also committed to 25% less food surplus than in 2018.
Our famous bakes and Sausage Rolls are all freshly baked, while our selection of sandwiches are prepared daily in shop to make sure your breakfast, lunch or dinner is packed full of fresh flavour and fun. Because much of our tasty menu is fresh, a lot goes on behind the scenes to prevent surplus. We have brilliant shop teams who manage stock levels, while a forecasting system that helps us plan so we know what our customers will want so we don’t over order.
We also work with Too Good To Go, a brilliant food app that offers our customers a ‘Magic Bag’ of unsold food worth around £8 for under £3. In 2024, we reached 5 million unsold meals rehomed via our partnership with Too Good To Go.
Outlets
As closing time approaches in many of our shops, unsold food is collected and distributed to one of our Greggs Outlets to be sold the next day at a tasty discount.
As well as acting as our unsung food waste heroes, Outlet shops are a safe haven for Greggs fans on a tight budget. We open Greggs Outlet shops in areas where families are likely to be hit hardest by deprivation issues. To protect those communities, we invest a portion of the profit from Outlet shops back into those areas via The Greggs Foundation by partnering or giving grants to local organisations.
In 2024, we opened 3 new Greggs Outlets and we have more on the way in 2025. By the end of next year, we commit to having 45 Greggs Outlets providing affordable food and donating a profit share to give back to the local community.
To see if there’s a Greggs Outlet near you, click below.
Healthier choices
Now, we don’t want to blow our own trumpet, but we might just have this whole delicious food lark sussed.
Our aim is to offer a mouth-watering menu at purse-pleasing prices, but since setting out on our Greggs Pledge journey, we’ve also begun a mission to help our customers make healthier choices.
In 2024, we made sure that over 30% of our menu is ‘Healthier Choice’ meaning that you get the same great tasting food for fewer than 400 calories and with no reds on the traffic light system.
Of course, we’ve not forgotten the Greggs favourites that you all know and love. By making small changes to reduce the amount of salt, fat or sugar we’ve been able to improve their nutritional value – and your tastebuds won’t even know the difference.
Packaging
The planet is a pretty brilliant place when you think about it – so we want to play our part in protecting it.
That’s why we’ve committed to using 25% less packaging in 2025 than in 2019. We’ll likely always need packaging to keep our products fresh and safe to eat, but we’re getting smarter and are on the way to only using packaging that is both essential and made from the most sustainable materials.
In 2024, we reached 98% of our own packaging being more easily recycled. We’re tackling single-use plastics, eradicating unnecessary packaging, and reducing our use of things like stretch-wrap film and plastic trays.
Animal welfare
The welfare of animals in our supply chain is really important to us – and we only work with suppliers who align with our values.
We introduced our new ‘Greggs Broiler Standard’ to make sure that our chicken welfare meets more ambitious standards than current UK or EU legislation requires.
Our suppliers must also meet and exceed our rules to ensure both the mental and physical well-being of animals reared to provide ingredients or products.
We recognise that animals are sentient beings that deserve to be treated with respect.
We ensure all animals in our supply chain are provided with fresh food and water, have shelter, are protected from pain, injury, disease or distress and have the freedom to express normal behaviours. As a result, Greggs now ranks in the top 4 of 150 of the world’s largest food companies in the Business Benchmark on Farm Animal Welfare (BBFAW).