Focus on Food

The Cooking School is the latest venture by the Focus on Food Campaign; the highly acclaimed national campaign which teaches over 40,000 children and 2,000 teachers to cook every year.

Focus on Food was established in 1998 against a background of national decline in cooking ability and teaching in the UK. This was coupled with rising health problems caused by poor diet and a general lack of food knowledge and skills.

Leading celebrity chefs; James Martin, Brian Turner, Nick Nairn, Gordon Ramsay, Jamie Oliver, Prue Leith, Gary Rhodes, Ross Burden and Ainsley Harriott have all supported the Focus on Food Campaign.

Focus on Food is the UK’s foremost education outreach programme for cooking. It delivers teaching to children, teachers and parents throughout the country using flagship mobile teaching classrooms; Cooking Buses. Focus on Food is sponsored by major partners who play a crucial role in the continued success of the Campaign.

The BIG Lottery Fund
Yorkshire Forward (RDA)
The Welsh Assembly Government
The Food Standards Agency (England)
Scottish Government
The Food Standards Agency (Scotland)
Kenwood
NEFF
The Savoy Educational Trust
BBC Haymarket Exhibitions
The Helen Hamlyn Trust
The Garfield Weston Foundation

The Campaign also produces high quality teaching and learning materials including the twice-yearly COOK SCHOOL Magazine.

Campaign Aims:

• To ensure cooking is at the core of food education
• Improve food teacher training
• Improve food teaching facilities in schools
• Implement a whole-school approach to food in schools
• Make food education compulsory in all primary and secondary schools
• Support cooking in the wider community

For further information on Focus on Food please visit www.focusonfood.org