Our expert team of qualified trainers delivers an ever-evolving programme of tried-and-tested and bespoke sessions for those who want to develop their knowledge of cooking, nutrition, growing and farm education, and learn how to pass these skills on to both adults and children.
Our dedicated team designs and develops resources tailored to each request and need. Training sessions inspire and support learning in classrooms and community settings, focusing on access to healthy, local and seasonal food. They are designed to engage and empower people to share key messages and practical skills, helping to enable greater food equality for all.
We offer a catalogue of creative and engaging sessions that are ready to deliver or adapt to meet individual requirements.
We can create a training offer to suit your needs and for a range of different groups. All our sessions are hands on, practical and delivered to the highest standards which are designed to empower participants to be able to take their new knowledge and skills and apply to both their professional and everyday lives.
Train the trainer – For school leaders, teachers, early years practitioners and community leaders to help them engage their pupils or groups in a desired subject, mainly food production, cooking, growing or nutrition. These sessions also provide professional development opportunities for teachers and community leaders.
Food for Life Inspires – Our cross-curriculum training package that supports teachers and school settings to apply the Food for Life whole setting approach to food education. Taking a simple and engaging approach to highlight the complexity of the food system from produce to plate.
School Food Standards – we can help make the standards make sense and break them down in a digestible and interactive way to be able to easily embed them to your setting.
Early Years Grow, Play and Learn – we introduce you to the Food for Life Early Years Award and its Food Education criteria and showcase a fun, integrated and practical approach to learning in your setting.
Qualifications:
BA (Hons) in Home Economics with a specialism in food and nutrition
PGCE in Secondary Home Economics.
Jane has over 10 years’ experience working for the SA as a specialist food trainer and National Training Manager. Previously, Jane managed the Food for Life Partnership Cooking Skills programme and the Food for Life Cooking Bus, delivering hands-on cooking education to children across the country and training teachers to cook confidently in schools. Jane’s background also includes working as a secondary food teacher and Head of Design & Technology, teaching up to A Level.
Jane’s expertise lies in developing cooking skills and making meaningful links between cooking, growing, and wider food production as well as recipe writing and collaborating with the team to create engaging resources.
I love cooking and helping others to improve their confidence and skills with ingredients that are good for them and the planet.
Qualifications:
· BSc (Hons) in Food Science and Nutrition
· Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) with a Key Stage 2/3 Science specialism
· Registered Associate Nutritionist (ANutr) with the Association for Nutrition.
Lee has worked at the Soil Association for 12 years, spending eight years as a Food for Life Served Here Inspector and four years as part of the Training Team. Previously, she worked in food education as a nutritionist in hospitals and schools, specialising in childhood obesity, and before that was a Key Stage 2/3 science teacher in a middle school. Within the training team, her expertise lies in nutrition and delivering practical cooking training to schools and other educational settings.
I have a real passion for good food, cooking and keeping healthy, everything that Food for Life is about! I love delivering practical elements of training to teachers and seeing the buzz in the room.
Qualifications:
· BA (Hons) in Graphic Design
· PGCE in Primary Education.
Faye has worked at Food for Life for 17 years, beginning as Farm Links Manager before becoming the School Farmers’ Markets Coordinator for Warwickshire, and later joining the Training Team. Prior to completing her PGCE, she worked as an Education Officer on an organic farm, welcoming over 6,000 children each year aged 4–16. Her background also includes roles in local government as an Education for Sustainable Development Officer, inspiring schools to become more sustainable, and as a Recycling Officer, engaging schools and the wider public through district-wide campaigns. Her training specialism is farm education and outdoor learning, delivering farm, outdoor learning, and basic growing training to teachers, as well as designing resources developed collaboratively with the team.
I love delivering face to face training, inspiring teachers to make connections between the environment, farming, food and health, for them to then inspire their pupils.
Over the years the training team has created a vast archive of accessible resources ready for anyone to use. If you are a registered Food for Life setting already, you can access this whole wealth of resources via our portal by signing in here.
If you are new to Food for Life but would like a small sample of what’s on offer, head over to our resources page to find out more.
To enquire about setting up a training session please email us
