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Cook5

Cook5 is a national cookery competition devised by Leon Restaurants. Every child that manages to cook five savoury dishes will receive a Cook5 certificate and a Little Leon e-book. Each month, the recipe receiving the most ‘votes’ will win £50 and there's an additional prize of £2000 for the school that gets the most students entering the competition.

Adopt A School

Academy chefs deliver a series of 2-3 annual sessions to schools, devised by the Adopt a School committee, in the form of structured one hour workshops which integrate well with Key stages 1-4 of the National Schools Curriculum. Register your school now.

Jamie Oliver's Kitchen Garden Project

Jamie Oliver's Kitchen Garden Project supports schools in bringing food education to life. It is a resource hub packed with lots of delicious Jamie Oliver recipes, lesson plans, helpful teaching notes, growing units, curriculum-linked activities, nutrition information and videos. It is designed to provide teaching staff with everything they need to help children learn how to grow food and cook nutritious meals. 

Sainsbury's Active Kids

Sainsbury's Active Kids supports schools by providing teaching resources to support cooking in school as well as the chance to use Active Kids vouchers to purchase cooking equipment. Register your school now!

Let's Get Cooking

Supported by the Children's Food Trust and funded by the Big Lottery Fund, Let's Get Cooking set up a network of 5,000 cooking clubs across England for children, their families and the wider community. Whilst funding is no longer available for new clubs, your school can join their Let's Get Cooking network and access useful cooking club resources.

The Kid's Cookery School

The Kid's Cookery School is a charity based in Acton, West London. They offer hands-on cooking classes to create healthy meals for children of all ages including those with special needs. Their mobile cooking van can transform any school site into a demonstration kitchen - very handy for schools that want to run a cooking session but don't have a teaching kitchen.  

Nutritionist Resource

Nutritionist Resource is a website promoting the benefits of healthy eating. During the school day, children will eat at least one meal outside of the home and may even be given the freedom of choosing lunch themselves. 

Ministry of Food

Jamie Oliver's campaign, Ministry of Food, is all about getting people cooking again. Anyone can learn to cook - it's fun, cool, can save you money and help you, your family and friends to live a healthier life.

Focus on Food

The Focus on Food Campaign is all about cooking. Any school can join the campaign, gain access to quality teaching resources including their excellent "skill up" tool kit for teaching 3-11 year olds and apply for a cooking bus visit.  They also train teachers and food leaders in schools how to teach children to cook.

Beyond Baked Beans

A website designed for students to help them eat well and on a budget. It has masses of money-saving tips and cheap, easy recipes for any occasion.

Root Camp

Root Camp is a residential field-to-table cookery school for teenagers age 14-21 aiming to teach young people how to cook simple, healthy, and cost effective meals from scratch. Root Camp's mission is to change a generation's attitude to food and empower young people to lead healthier and more independent lives. Bursary applications are available.