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Brent MP and Minister for Children and Families, Sarah Teather, will be joining children at St Robert Southwell Catholic Primary school for the annual ‘make, take home and share’ cooking day – run by the Let’s Get Cooking club.

Every single child at the school will be cooking a healthy dish to take home and share with their family and friends on the day, as part of the school’s Let’s Get Cooking work to help children and families improve their diets by learning to cook.

Research for Let’s Get Cooking has shown that over half of club members (58%) said they were eating more healthily after their involvement with the programme, while 90% reported that they had used their new cooking skills at home. 

Teather said: “Learning how to cook affordable, healthy food from scratch is an important part of the school experience for children, helping them grow up with the skills they need to stay healthy and feed themselves well. Through the work of Let’s Get Cooking, children, their families and the communities around schools are all getting the chance to improve their cooking skills, and this is a wonderful chance to see that in action.”

Rob Rees, School Food Trust chairman, added: “We’re delighted that the Minister will be joining us to see Let’s Get Cooking in action. Without fancy equipment or expensive ingredients, St Robert Southwell is just one example of a school that is helping children learn about what it means to eat healthily through Let’s Get Cooking.”

Now in the fourth year of a £20 million, five-year programme funded by the Big Lottery Fund, there are more than 4,000 school-based Let's Get Cooking clubs in every local authority across England, which have reached more than 1 million people with their activities.