These Cooking activities have been created and tailored with secondary school pupils in mind, we have worked together with schools, families, and pupils to offer the fun and educative activities.
Below you will see activities developed for Secondary School Pupils, more information about activity can be found under the activity name and when you click on the “Click to Register” buttons.
To register for an activity please remember that you will need you child/s HAF ID this can be found on the email sent to the email address you provided on the registration page, if you have more than one child you will have multiple emails and multiple HAF ID we recommend you do one child a time in this case.

Ready Steady Cook for Families – Session 1 (27th-30th July & 2nd-5th Aug) SOLD OUT!
How would you love to cook along with professional Chefs, you will receive 8 recipe cards and all the ingredients you need to feed your family (a family of four) for 8 days delivered directly to your home. You will receive a link to view the chefs cooking so you can cook along with them to make it even more exciting. There will be things like Spaghetti Bolognese, Bean burgers and bun, and Burritos.
booking this activity counts as 8 of your 16 session places

Ready Steady Cook for Families – Session 2 (10th-13th Aug & 16th-19th Aug) SOLD OUT!
How would you love to cook along with professional Chefs, you will receive 8 recipe cards and all the ingredients you need to feed your family (a family of four) for 8 days delivered directly to your home. You will receive a link to view the chefs cooking so you can cook along with them to make it even more exciting. There will be things like Spaghetti Bolognese, Bean burgers and bun, and Burritos.
booking this activity counts as 8 of your 16 session places

Make your own afternoon tea – SEND Only SOLD OUT!
We will be producing ‘make your own afternoon tea kits’ with easy-to-follow pictorial recipes and an accompanying tutorial from Kayleigh who is a member of staff and volunteer, explaining what to do. Boxes will include all items needed for afternoon tea for 2. Sandwiches, ingredients and recipe sheet for scones, clotted cream pots and jam portions, 2 plain sponge bases, 2 chocolate bases, pots of buttercream and toppers to decorate cakes with a small pot of strawberries. We will include 2 teabags!!!

Create your own Fake Away
Everyone loves a takeaway now and again, but how about having a go at your own healthy version? Choose from either making your own Pizza, Fried Chicken, Veggie Curry or Piri-Piri Chicken. We will send you the ingredients and they you simply ‘rate your plate and treat your mate!’ So cook your fake away for the family then you ‘rate your plate’ send us feedback on how easy it was to make and how did it taste and we will send you a voucher for the real thing so that you can ‘treat your mate!’ perfect.
booking this activity counts as 2 of your 16 session places. This Activity is suitable for 14-16 year olds.
Only 1 Fake Away per Family.

Mocktails and Tapas with a Black Country Twist (14-16 year olds only)
Enjoy an afternoon in a real gin bar, learn how to mocktail a pawn star martini or a mojito or even create your own unique drink and give it a name that others will remember. Taste foods from across the Mediterranean and test them against our favourite Black Country Grub.