Caper & Berry embrace sustainability at the BAFTAs.
🎭 A very nice nod to our projects with BAFTA Awards caterers, Caper & Berry!
We're looking forward to sharing a very exciting project we've been working on for these ceremonies behind the scenes.
A few excerpts from some recent press below:
🗞️ Town & Country House | What’s On The 2025 BAFTAs Menu?
“Caper & Berry is big on green initiatives, and continually looks for ways to reduce the environmental impact of its events. ‘Having recently been accredited in the Environmental Management System ISO14001, our business as a whole has introduced eco initiatives throughout our operations, which naturally filter down to BAFTA events,’ the company explains. For instance, there are refillable carton water and water stations dotted around, and staff are encouraged to bring their own water bottles to reduce single-use plastic on site.
Following the event, the business will be doing a deep dive into the carbon footprint of the event, in order to help improve in future. ‘This year, we will be performing our first Carbon Impact Report for the BAFTA Film Awards whereby we can identify our eco hot spots and look at the areas we can adapt to have a more positive impact, moving forward,’ Caper & Berry’s representative tells us. ‘This will cover all areas of the catering including staffing, food sourcing and menu choices, equipment hire, and travel and transport.’”
🗞️ The Guardian | Edible popcorn bucket and vegan caviar on the menu as Baftas embrace sustainability
“An edible popcorn bucket and a Bafta-branded tub of vegan caviar are among the treats that await awards-goers after this year’s film ceremony.
Approximately 2,000 guests can either drown their sorrows or fill their boots with a three-course menu catered by head chef Matt Crow to be served in the Southbank Centre once the final awards have been dished out.
It’s the fourth time Crow’s company, Caper & Berry, have catered the event, hiring about 60 chefs for the night, alongside legions of porters and waiting staff.
Organic mushrooms from East Grinstead are being served two ways for the starter (pickled, and in a parfait). Alongside them will be sourdough and a tin of Chinese seaweed caviar decorated with the Bafta mask – and eminently repurposable as a pillbox.
Hemel Hempstead chicken also comes two ways (roasted, and in a terrine) for the main, alongside scorched carrots and alyssum, while vegetarians are offered “roast crown prince (squash)” with accompaniments including a zero-waste root bhaji.
The pièce de résistance is the “Bafta popcorn sundae”: a white, orange and gold-coloured chocolate tub filled with strawberry mousse and topped with salted caramel popcorn. The dessert, which may bear a passing resemblance to a KFC bucket, can either be eaten entirely on the night or its innards scooped out and the shell retained as a souvenir.
“I imagine a lot of people will go in without a spoon,” predicts Crow of the pudding, adding that how long the container takes to melt “will depend on how warm your hands are”.
