We collaborate with each school to identify a group of 6 students who will benefit most from our program. These students will participate in hands-on cooking sessions designed to build essential life skills, confidence, and a love for nutritious food.

In the first session, students learn how to prepare and bake traditional pasties. Each child will take their homemade pasty home, offering a sense of accomplishment and pride in creating their own meal.

Benefit: This first experience introduces children to basic cooking techniques and helps foster independence and self-esteem through hands-on learning.

At the following school holiday, each participating child will receive a box filled with ingredients to make pasties for their entire family at home. Additionally, these ingredient boxes will be available for all students in the school to purchase, creating a broader impact across the community.

Benefit: The take-home boxes provide children and their families with an opportunity to cook and enjoy a meal together, reinforcing the skills learned and promoting family bonding over healthy food.

Every half term, we reconnect with the same group of students to prepare a different nutritious meal. After each session, students will take home an ingredient box with everything needed to recreate the meal for their families.

Benefit: This ongoing support reinforces cooking skills, introduces students to diverse, balanced meals, and provides continual learning that builds on previous sessions.