Essential Brigade Out in Force for Chefs Adopt a School Week

⁣Our Essential Cuisine team of chefs will be marking the second Chefs Adopt a School Week by visiting schools across the UK to yet again deliver inspirational and fun cookery workshops to pupils.
Managing Director, Nigel Crane, whose company has long been a Royal Academy of Culinary Arts – the organisation behind the Chefs Adopt a School charity – patron, says the outreach work has never been more vital.
He says: “Good diet is such a basic consideration but we must help stave off an epidemic of poor nutrition and give children the tools to make better informed choices. One of the first things we do when a chef joins the team is ask them to become a champion of the local schools in their area. Engaging with kids at a grass-roots level is not only vital in them understanding the importance of their individual well-being, but is also key to helping them improve and hone basic kitchen skills, which will pay dividends as their lives progress.
We’re proud that we can give something back. I urge all food businesses to engage with the Royal Academy during this week and beyond.”
Last year The Stock People donated £8,000 to Chefs Adopt a School, as part of a promotion on packs of our class-leading Premier Veal Jus. Speaking at the time, Chief Executive of the Royal Academy of Culinary Arts, Sara Jayne Stanes OBE, called the move “a magnificent demonstration of support to emphasise the importance of getting [children] interested cooking from an early age.”
This time around our chefs will be back on the road, working with schools in across Cheshire, Staffordshire, Hampshire and Gloucestershire. We also regularly welcomes local schools to its Cheshire HQ for interactive tasting sessions.

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