Good Food Training for London
Good Food Training (this can link to the box below) provides bespoke, practical and innovative skills-based training for catering staff and managers in all aspects of food, health and sustainability.
We offer the following:
- Accredited training courses with Chartered Institute of Environmental Health, Open College Network and NVQs
- Non-accredited short courses allowing increased accessibility
- Flexible training to accommodate your needs
- Highly competitive rates offering excellent value for money
- Full needs assessment prior to training to ensure real needs are addressed
- Fully qualified and experienced trainers
- Interactive, practical sessions designed to suit all skill levels
- Comprehensive follow-ups and reports to assess behaviour change
Benefits to your business
- Motivated and inspired staff
- Improved skills and knowledge amongst your workforce meaning increased job satisfaction
- Saving money whilst ‘greening’ your business
- Increasing the health and sustainability of your menus
Adopting more sustainable food practices is a major step every catering organisation can take to help reduce their carbon footprint. The good news is that this is not only the healthier option, but the most cost effective one too.
Our training is based on a comprehensive needs assessment (download Needs assessment pdf) and addresses real gaps in knowledge and skills whilst ensuring the triple bottom line of health, sustainability and money saving are maintained. We will help your business meet government standards in reducing carbon outputs and producing healthy, affordable food.
Our training includes:
- Healthy Eating and Nutrition
- How to Embed Sustainability in your Workplace
- Food Procurement
- Food Presentation and Knife Skills
- Waste Management
- Customer Care
- Open College Network accredited course in Healthy Eating and Running a Cookery Club
- NVQ Level 2 Professional Cookery
- Food growing courses
- Specialist chef training days
To download our current price list please click here (download pirce list pdf file)
For a full list of courses on offer, please download our course list brochure (download course list pdf)
In the summer of 2009 GCDA became a School Food Trust FEAST (Food Excellence and Skills Training) Centre with a capital grant to design and build a state of the art training kitchen in Greenwich. One of a network of FEAST centre’s including 3 other London Centre’s; Enfield Catering Services, Thames Valley University and Westminster Kingsway College.
The School FEAST (Food Excellence and Skills Training) network helps ensure today's caterers and
cooks gain the skills they need to provide healthy, legally compliant school lunches. It also ensures
the quality and motivation of future generations of school lunch providers.
“This training is the best and most relevant training I have been on in the 16 years I have worked for Barking and Dagenham Council”
- Cook undertaking craft skills training in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, June 2010
“The training was excellent, a lot of information but well structured & each topic relevant and it followed on” - Community Café Training 29th April 2010
“I found it most helpful to discuss with other people different issues and strategies of how to do things. What works and doesn’t in different situations”. Lunchtime Supervisor Training Merton May 2010
We believe it is time to raise the status and skills of public and private sector catering staff to support the transition to a healthier, more sustainable food system
Established in 2007 GCDA were awarded one of the London Food Board’s pilot projects
(www.london.gov.uk/londonfood) to improve the health impact and sustainability of London’s Food system. Good Food Training for London developed and delivered a training package to the public sector in order to increase the levels of healthy and sustainable food for public sector caterers including schools, residential care homes, hospitals and prisons.
The London Food Board responsible for The Mayor’s London Food Strategy emphasized the need to improve skills to help reduce inequalities of access to affordable and acceptable healthy and sustainable food.
Good Food Training has delivered training to over 3000 individuals within 100 institutions, and the project continues to be delivered in partnership with Sustain, EYS and NHS Greenwich.
For more information download our ‘What we’ve Learned’ document (download what we’ve learned pdf)