Girl Guide Biscuits

Guide Biscuits are a major fundraiser for Guide Districts, and provide a great opportunity to promote the benefits of Guiding.

Thank you to everyone who has placed a biscuit order for 2012. Order confirmations have been sent out for all orders received at Guide House. District Leaders may like to ensure confirmation has been received. Please contact Ros with any queries. Biscuits will be delivered in March 2012.

There are 20 packets in each carton of Plain and Choc, and 12 boxes of minis in a carton. You can buy a carton or two for your work place or surprise your friends with a few packets. Packets will be on sale for $3.00 each.

Some concern has been expressed regarding trans-fat content in Girl Guides biscuits. You can rest assured that Australian Guides biscuits are not high in trans fats - for further information please see this statement from our biscuit manufacturer.

Griffin's Foods Limited Position on Palm Oil

Supporting sustainable palm oil production through GreenPalm

Griffin’s Foods supports the production of certified sustainable palm oil (CSPO) and has applied for membership of the industry group, the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO). The RSPO is a well-established not-for-profit worldwide industry association which is a forum for the promotion and use of certified sustainable palm oil. In addition, Griffin’s policy is to only purchase palm oil from companies that are certified members of the RSPO.

The RSPO has exclusively endorsed a certified sustainable palm oil certification system (GreenPalm) whose philosophy is based on the principle that the best way to encourage people to work in a sustainable and responsible way is to reward them for doing so.

Griffin’s Foods fully endorses this philosophy and will initially purchase 25% of our total palm oil volume (5000 metric tonnes) procured in Green Palm certificates and continue to increase the purchase of GreenPalm certificates until we have covered 100% of our volume by 2015 or sooner if certificates are available.

This means that for every tonne of palm oil / shortening we use in the production of our products we have paid a voluntary premium to a palm oil producer who is operating within the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil’s (RSPO) strict guidelines for social and environmental responsibility.

IFor further details, please visit Griffin's website.

This page was updated 9 December 2011