Cooking bus
Thursday 6 August 2009
The FSA funded a Focus on Food Cooking Bus for six years, but this project has now concluded.
The Helen Hamlyn Trust is sponsoring the Bus from January 2010. The Bus will support the cookit element of the trust’s Open Futures Project.
In addition to this Bus, Focus on Food’s cooking teaching and training workshops are currently delivered by:
- Yorkshire Forward sponsored bus
- Welsh Assembly sponsored bus
- Scottish Executive/Food Standards Agency Scotland sponsored bus
- ‘BIG Lottery sponsored Food for Life bus
Organisations/schools wishing to enquire about booking a Focus on Food Cooking Bus workshop should contact Focus on Food for a Cooking Bus application pack. Telephone: 01422 383191 or email focusonfood@designdimension.org. (The pack can also be downloaded from the Focus on food link below).
In the six years that the Agency sponsored a Cooking Bus, it worked with approximately 35,000 school children and trained 4,800 teachers across England. It has also provided schools with 373 Cookits (cooking kits) to enable them to deliver practical cooking in the classroom.
The FSA sponsored Cooking Bus featured at many Agency events, such as The Good Food Show, the Design and Technology Show, the Women's Institute annual general meeting AGM, the Salt Cascade Conference at Denman College, and most recently the BA Science Festival. To find out more about our Bus please look at our Cooking Bus archive.
The Focus on Food Campaign is the UK’s lead practical food outreach programme and the Agency will continue to work closely with the campaign on pertinent initiatives and issues.