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www.letsgetcooking.org.uk
Let’s Get Cooking
www.letsgetcooking.org.uk
ISPP2
School Food Trustnon departmental public body - DCSF
Let’s Get Cooking Yorkshire & The Humber Regional staff Lisette Baker - Club CoordinatorSue Blackburn - Training Officer
Who are we?
www.letsgetcooking.org.uk
ISPP3
Basics
• National network of 3000 new and 2000 associate clubs set up by end of 2010
• £20 million grant from BIG Lottery Fund.• School based out-of-school clubs– aimed at
young people aged 5-18yrs and their families.• Can be run by teachers, teaching assistants,
school cooks, parents, grandparents, volunteers from the community etc
www.letsgetcooking.org.uk
ISPP4
1. Teach young people, their families and the community basic cooking skills
2. Enable and encourage cooking skills to be replicated at home
3. Improve healthy eating habits
Aims of the programme
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ISPP5
Key messages Let's Get Cooking is more than an after-school club. Involve the whole school community - cooks, caterers,
parents, grandparents, carers, teachers, TAs, HE and FE students and members of local community.
Make cooking something which regularly happens in school.
Key principlesSustainable manageable enjoyable
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ISPP6
Where are we now?• Stages of development
– 21 pilots running in SW and NW England since early 2007
– 20 schools in Sheffield form a Development Stage cluster (17 on waiting list)
– Main national roll-out across all regions happening now. 3000 new and 2000 associate clubs to be set up in next 5 years.
– Partners: Business in the Community, The Princes Trust xl programmes, The Improvement Foundation, Magic Outcomes, British Nutrition Foundation, Royal Society for Health
The Let’s Get Cookingnational programme
www.letsgetcooking.org.uk
ISPP7
Resources
• Finance
• Regional staff
• The start-up pack
• Termly activity packs
• Website
• Online shop
www.letsgetcooking.org.uk
ISPP8
Steps to starting the Club
1.Online applications
2. Introductory Session
3. Two-day Training Course – run by Regional Training Officer Sue Blackburn
Aims: Train two adults who will be running the club basic food hygiene and safety, how to demonstrate a range of basic cooking skills to club members and gain insight into how to increase family and community involvement in cooking and food related activities. Receive Start-Up pack and introduction to resources.
4. Start-Up Day – run by Regional Club Coordinator Lisette Baker4 - 6 people from each school who will take a key role in running the clubMinimum 2 adultsAims: Provide ideas and inspiration for the club. Introduction to website. Cook!
5. Get Cooking!
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ISPP9
Paperwork!
Reporting procedures • Minimum expectations
of club activity?• Sustainable
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ISPP10
Community events
• Family picnics• Fruit kebabs and soup at parents’
eve• Smoothies on Sports day• Strawberry tea• Community meal• Fruit kebabs at school open
evening• Organic vegetable box curry• Curry at Summer Fair
www.letsgetcooking.org.uk
ISPP11
Let’s Get Cooking!
Thank you for listening … see you soon!