Grants to Improve Food Hygiene Education
Cookits are sets of cooking equipment for schools, designed to help children learn the basics of cooking. Each set has enough equipment for a class of a dozen children and now the FSA is offering grants to half the cost of these sets for primary schools! To apply for one of these grants, simply fill in this form and send it off by the 19th March 2010.
Since there is more to cooking than the practical element, Cookit sets also contain recipes, activities and food hygiene advice, designed to give children a well-rounded nutritional education. It is hoped that, by gaining these skills at a young age, children will be inspired to maintain a healthy diet and lifestyle for the rest of their lives.
Anita Cormac, Executive Director for Focus on Food, said “The Cookit is a fantastic concept that has been really well received by all primary schools [...] We also understand how carefully schools need to manage their budgets. The Cookit has been carefully designed and trialled to ensure it effectively supports cooking in schools. The equipment is robust, made to high safety specification and represents good quality and value.”
This project to bring food hygiene and nutrition further into the education system, without putting undue extra stresses on budgets, is a fantastic step forwards in many respects.
Tags: cookit, education, FSA, primary schools