Let's Get Cooking

In Kind Direct helps thousands of children and adults get cooking

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Club member shows Simon Cowell Manchester’s got food talent!

A Let’s Get Cooking club member’s cooking success has taken him all the way to the red carpet with a host of celebrities including Simon Cowell.

Board member gets cooking with Golden Spoon winner

New Greenhall School crowned regional cooking champion

A Wigan school has won a special award for its contribution towards reducing health inequalities and bringing local communities together by teaching people how to cook.

Congratulations to all BIG Cookathon 2013 contenders!

Once again the outstanding contributions thousands of children, parents, teachers and members of the community have blown us all away – it’s made this year’s Let’s Get Cooking BIG Cookathon a very special one to remember.

St Albans school crowned regional cooking champion

A St Albans school has won a special award for its contribution towards reducing health inequalities and bringing local communities together by teaching people how to cook.

Doncaster school crowned regional cooking champion

A Doncaster school has won a special award for its contribution towards reducing health inequalities and bringing local communities together by teaching people how to cook.

Thomas Aveling School crowned regional cooking champion

A Kent school has won a special award for its contribution towards reducing health inequalities and bringing local communities together by teaching people how to cook.

Birmingham school crowned regional cooking champion

A Birmingham school has won a special award for its contribution towards reducing health inequalities and bringing local communities together by teaching people how to cook.

Pinfold Primary School crowned regional cooking champion

A school in Lancashire has won a special award for its contribution towards reducing health inequalities and bring local communities together by teaching people how to cook.

Woden’s Rise PRU crowned regional cooking champion

A pupil referral unit in Wednesbury has won a special award for its contribution towards reducing health inequalities and bringing local communities together by teaching people how to cook.

Thousands of pupils across the country join our 2013 Cookathon

Budding young chefs across England are downing pens and donning aprons as they prepare to take part in a national cookery challenge to win a share of £5,000.

Surrey school crowned regional cooking champion

A school in Surrey has won a special award for its contribution towards reducing health inequalities and bringing local communities together by teaching people how to cook.

Woden’s Rise PRU crowned regional cooking champion

A pupil referral unit in Wednesbury has won a special award for it contribution towards reducing health inequalities and bringing local communities together by teaching people how to cook.

Cooking skills ‘essential’ for helping families in food poverty

Professionals who work with children have given their views on the importance of cooking skills for supporting families in food poverty, in our new poll.

Greenwich centre crowned regional cooking champion

A Greenwich mental health centre has won a special award for its work to bring local communities together and teach its users how to cook.

Plans to get more children cooking at school

Find out how to give your views on plans to make cooking compulsory for all children at school

RSPH news release: RSPH renews its endorsement of the Let’s Get Cooking programme

The Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) is pleased to announce the renewal of its accreditation of Let’s Get Cooking, led by the Children’s Food Trust.

Meet our national Golden Spoon stars

After weeks of speculation we are delighted to announce that our three national winners of the latest Let’s Get Cooking Golden Spoon Awards have been chosen!

Emma Forbes hosts our national cooking awards

Well-known foodie and broadcaster, Emma Forbes, will be presenting national Let’s Get Cooking awards in London next week.

TV chef gets cooking with pupils at Edward Worlledge Juniors

Top chef Galton Blackiston paid a visit to Let’s Get Cooking – dropping in on pupils and parents at Edward Worlledge Juniors in Great Yarmouth.

Let’s Get Cooking provides fuel for fitness at Games4Life

Let’s Get Cooking has been invited to join an estimated 25,000 school children, teachers and parents at the Games4 Life event being held in London’s Olympic Park on Wednesday 9th May.

Let’s Get Cooking’s East of England Golden Spoon stars of 2012!

The Golden Spoon Awards landed in the East of England to celebrate the fifth and most successful year of Let’s Get Cooking to date!

Minister gets cooking on visit to Brent School

Brent MP and Minister for Children and Families, Sarah Teather, swapped the dispatch box for the chopping board on a visit to a local school.

South West community groups invited to get cooking

Businesses in the South West wanting to help their staff to eat more healthily are being offered training on setting up and running cooking activities in the workplace.

East Midlands teachers join in 'Cooking in Schools Extravaganza’

More than 100 staff members from schools across the region will be downing pens and donning aprons to celebrate healthy cooking and learn new skills at Hothorpe Hall, Theddingworth on Tuesday 16th October from 10am to 3.30pm.

Lads and Dads in North West to get cooking for health

Dads and their sons in Camden, Barnet, Westminster, Brent and Harrow are to get the chance to cook their way to a healthier diet thanks to new funding from People’s Health Trust.

Lads and Dads in Lincolnshire to get cooking for health

Dads and their sons in Lincolnshire are to get the chance to cook their way to a healthier diet thanks to new funding from People’s Health Trust.

Lads and Dads in Greater Manchester to get cooking for health

Dads and their sons in Tameside, Wigan, Bolton, Bury, Rochdale and Oldham are to get the chance to cook their way to a healthier diet thanks to new funding from People’s Health Trust.

Lads and Dads in Derbyshire to get cooking for health

Dads and their sons in Derbyshire are to get the chance to cook their way to a healthier diet thanks to new funding from People’s Health Trust.

Lads and Dads to get cooking for health in Coventry, Warwickshire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire

Dads and their sons in Coventry, Warwickshire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire are to get the chance to cook their way to a healthier diet thanks to new funding from People’s Health Trust.

Young people in care in Sussex, Brighton and Hove to get cooking for health

Young people and their foster carers in East and West Sussex, Brighton and Hove are to get the chance to cook their way to a healthier diet thanks to new funding from People’s Health Trust.

Young people in care in Wakefield and Leeds to get cooking for health

Young people and their foster carers in Wakefield and Leeds are to get the chance to cook their way to a healthier diet thanks to new funding from People’s Health Trust.

Young people in care to get cooking for health

Young people and their foster carers in County Durham, Stockton on Tees, Redcar, Cleveland, Middlesbrough, Darlington and Hartlepool are to get the chance to cook their way to a healthier diet thanks to new funding from the People’s Health Trust.

Want children to try healthier foods? Get them cooking, says research

Parents who want their children to eat more fruit and veg should pass them a pinny – according to new findings from the School Food Trust.

North London teachers join 'Cooking in Schools Extravaganza’

Teachers from North London will be downing pens and donning aprons to learn all about healthy eating and cooking at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Thursday 31st May from 9.15am – 3.30pm.

Let’s Get Cooking congratulates ‘Cook for The Queen’ winners

The nation’s biggest network of healthy cooking clubs is congratulating pupils at one of its Cornwall locations whose recipes have been deemed fit for the Queen.

Castledyke Primary wins national healthy cooking competition

Mini chefs in North Lincolnshire have cooked their way to success in a nationwide healthy cooking competition, scooping a weighty portion of the £5,000 prize pot.

WLWA partners with Let’s Get Cooking to reduce household food waste

West London Waste Authority has turned to England’s largest network of healthy cooking clubs to help educate young people on how they can reduce food waste at home.

Top Chefs join pupils in Summer Salad Cook off Competition

Top chefs from some of the city’s best-known restaurants will be joining primary school pupils in a battle of the summer salad this weekend.

Cooking brings Rotherham parents and pupils together

Rotherham pupils passed their parents a pinny to help teach them about healthy eating at a special open day held just for them.

People’s Health Trust supports Let’s Get Cooking

Let’s Get Cooking’s funding from the People’s Health Trust has now topped £800,000!

Birchwood School gets cooking with the Health Lottery

Warrington pupils have been cooking their way to a healthier diet thanks to a new after school club funded by The Health Lottery.

Dads and Lads Get Cooking thanks to Health Lottery players

Dads and their sons are cooking their way to health with the Children’s Food Trust, thanks to funding from Healthy Lottery players.

Schools Get Cooking thanks to Lottery cash in Greater Manchester

Volunteers from schools across Greater Manchester are donning their aprons to learn how to set up their own healthy cooking clubs.

Schools Get Cooking thanks to Lottery cash in Barnsley, Doncaster and Sheffield

Volunteers from schools across Barnsley, Doncaster and Sheffield have been donning their aprons to learn how to set up their own healthy cooking clubs.

Schools Get Cooking thanks to Lottery cash in Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Oxfordshire

Volunteers from schools across Herts, Bedfordshire and Oxfordshire have been donning their aprons to learn how to set up their own healthy cooking clubs.

Schools Get Cooking thanks to Lottery cash in Shropshire and Staffordshire

Volunteers from schools across Shropshire and Staffordshire have been donning their aprons to learn how to set up their own healthy cooking clubs.

Money raised by HealthDesire enables Dads and lads to get cooking

Dads and their sons in the West Midlands will soon have the chance to cook their way to a healthier diet.

Let's Get Cooking helps families cook on a budget

Let's Get Cooking launched our ‘Feed a Family for a Fortnight’ information pack to help families cut food costs by being clever with leftovers and creating healthy meals from scratch.

Cookie Monster needs help from Let's Get Cooking!

Have you seen the Cookie Monster's 'Share it Maybe' video on YouTube?

Doves Farm donate flour to help Let's Get Cooking clubs keep cooking

Cooking club leaders across the country will be rolling up their sleeves and putting Doves Farm Flour to good use over the next few months, at their Let’s Get Cooking training sessions.

Health Lottery cooking club stars in community summer festival

Budding chefs from one of our Lambeth cooking clubs will be showcasing their talents at a summer festival this week.

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