Partner organisations

Let's Get Cooking has worked with the following partners:

Big Lottery Fund

Let's Get Cooking is supported by a £20 million grant from the Big Lottery Fund to set up the first 5,000 school-based Let's Get Cooking clubs for children, parents and the wider community. Over the five-year programme we have consistently exceeded the objectives agreed with the Lottery.  

Change4Life

Change4Life commissioned Let's Get Cooking to run a pilot as part of their Cook4Life sub-brand. This involved training staff from 60 Sure Start Children’s Centres to run healthy cooking sessions for families with young children.  We also developed and produced a range of tailored resources and handled the evaluation of the pilot. Feedback so far shows that 95% of delegates rated the training as 'Excellent' or' Very Useful'.

London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Organising Committee

The Let's Get Cooking Around the World resources available on our website are part of the London 2012 education programme ‘Get Set’ and are used in schools to teach languages in a practical way and fun way, through cooking.

Tottenham Hotspur Foundation

Tottenham Hotspur Foundation invited community outreach workers and schools from the surrounding area to a two-day training session led by Let's Get Cooking. This included practical cooking sessions, tailored resources (with a football theme) and advice on how to set up healthy cooking clubs for children and parents. 

Best Practice Network

Let's Get Cooking has trained Higher Level Teaching Assistants to teach cooking as part of the introduction of practical cooking to the Secondary Curriculum from September 2011.

Sheffield Let's Change4Life

Let's Get Cooking proved so popular that Sheffield Let's Change4Life provided funding for an additional ten school-based Let's Get Cooking clubs in Sheffield.

In addition, Sheffield Let's Change4Life have commissioned Let's Get Cooking to develop a programme to get whole schools cooking and working with food. This programme will provide training for 30 Sheffield schools, to help them engage parents in school life and address obesity levels through cooking.

Tewkesbury Healthy Towns

Tewkesbury is another local authority that requested additional Let's Get Cooking clubs and provided additional funding to enable more schools to have the chance to benefit from the Let's Get Cooking programme.

East Midlands Platform on food, physical activity and health

The Let’s Get Cooking East Midlands regional team have joined the East Midlands Platform on food, physical activity and health.   Let’s Get Cooking have pledged to support other platform member organisations with a course of training workshops in healthy eating and cooking for employees.  The East Midlands team will be delivering workplace-focused training covering topics such as portion control and healthy food in the workplace, with the aim of helping organisations improve the health and wellbeing of their workforce.

We also partnered with the Prince’s Trust, Business in the Community, Magic Outcomes, British Nutrition Foundation and the Royal Society for Public Health to deliver the five-year Lottery-funded progamme.