22nd Nov 2010 - 00:00
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More than 200 schools across the country are preparing to hold their first sessions with 'Let's Get Cooking', a national network of healthy cooking clubs for children and parents led by the School Food Trust and backed by £20 million from the Big Lottery Fund.
Children and adults at schools in Gateshead, Merton, Sutton, Essex, Devon, Plymouth, Warwickshire, Kingston and Richmond-upon-Thames are getting together for special training days over the next week, designed to help them start cooking and to learn how to organise fun cooking events within the own community.
By the end of 2010, Let's Get Cooking will have signed up 5,000 school-based cooking clubs in a bid to teach new cooking skills to more than one million children, family and community members.
Laura Needham, Warwickshire's club coordinator for Let's Get Cooking, said: "It's brilliant that Warwickshire schools are so keen to get cooking and we are delighted that so many local schools signed up. "Their Start-Up Day is the last of three training events we run for all our new clubs, with children, young people and adults cooking together for the first time. After today, they will be ready to begin their own club cooking sessions."
The Big Lottery Fund has helped pay for cooking equipment, on-going advice and support from regional Let's Get Cooking specialists and have access to free training and a range of resources.
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