Celebrate local food & nurture young talent

We've launched the 2021 Create & Cook Competition. Closing date for entries will be Friday 26th March 2021.

Update on 5th January......

We hope the Create & Cook Competition can be part of schools online learning. As well as the step by step guide on how to enter on this website, we are planning on producing worksheets for teachers to give out to students to further guide them through the entry process, learning about local food and working on recipe ideas. Plus we'll be giving lots of tips and ideas on our social media to help with entries. We're here to support schools as much as we can over the next few months. Please see our news page for updates.

We hope by the summer term we'll all be back so some normality and we can run face to face finals for the best entries.

So if you'd like to join in, please register for the 2021 competition here

The Create & Cook Competition is a fun project for schools focusing on local food. The competition is open to 12-14 year olds (years 8 and 9) in secondary schools in Hampshire, Sussex, Isle of Wight, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire and Shropshire. The brief is to work in pairs and create a two course menu using as many locally produced ingredients as possible. The competition challenges pupils to learn about where their food comes from and explore the key issues of seasonality and sustainability. Young cooks enter the competition through their school.

"I learnt local food is good for me, my community and the planet" Noah, Bredon School, Tewkesbury,