Past Project

Charlie Bigham’s in the southwest

Key Facts

CHEFS TRAINED	8+
LOCATION	Southwest / Charlie Bigham’s Test Kitchen
PROJECT TYPE	Training
PROGRAMME	Full School Chef Educator
PROJECT LENGTH	10 Weeks Training
FUNDERS	Charlie Bigham’s

The Challenge

In 2023 we partnered with Charlie Bigham’s to support school chefs across the Southwest to feed every child in more educational and nutritious way than ever before.

Our Support

Our training package, the School Chef Educator course, combined practical in-kitchen training days with live zoom sessions and telephone support. Over 10 weeks school chefs, learned about nutrition, school food standards, kitchen skills, recipes, lowering waste and managing teams.

This project was part of a full programme of support across the region.

The Result

The Chefs that worked across multiple schools, had a blast – and learned a whole bunch of invaluable new skills… oh and some tasty new recipes too.

They are now all pushing the school food revolution forward in through the food and food education in their schools.

6 Modules
From nutrition to knife skills, we covered it all.

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8 School Chefs
Taking their new skills back to their kitchen teams.

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10 Weeks Training
Our Chefs worked with our chef trainers team.

FUNDED BY

Thanks to funding from Charlie Bigham’s, we’re able to support schools in this area for free or for vastly subsidised rates.

Charlie Bigham’s have funded this work as part of their ongoing commitment to improving school food and food education across Devon and Cornwall . Want to know more about them, you can check out their website below.

SEE Charlie Bigham's Website

Project Pics

Take a look at school chefs and our chef trainers getting stuck into learning new recipes, techniques and ways to embed food education and a great new food culture in their schools.