Balsall Common Primary School will be holding their annual Children's FOOD TRUST BIG Cookathon on March 6th. The event will involve all 724 students cooking from ages 4 to 11. They have less than 36 hours to prepare ingredients and organize volunteers for the all day event. Local officials like the Mayor of Solihull and sports teams will be visiting to support. Sponsorships from GO Outdoors, Marriott Hotel & Country Club, Forest of Arden, and Sainsbury's will be providing supplies and assistance. The event organizer expressed excitement but also stress about organizing everything for the large scale cooking event within their four week timeframe.

1. Balsall Common Primary School
Balsall Street East, Balsall Common, Coventry CV7 7FS
Tel: 01676 532254
Email: s2hrose@balsall-common.solihull.sch.uk
4 March 2015
Press Release
For immediate release
The countdown is on to the annual Children’s FOOD TRUST BIG Cookathon, now in its
seventh year. We now have less than 36 hours to make the final preparations, source
ingredients and organise volunteers.
The event will take place on Friday 6th
March, it will last all day (9.30- 3.30) and will involve
every child in school. I have worked out that if we have 6 gas burners (camping stoves) we
would be able to get the whole school involved, that's 724 pupils from age 4 – 11, which is a
huge challenge. Some will only be able to chop or stir with the help of parents but it should
be a great day and I know the children will love it.
The Mayor of Solihull will be calling in to offer her support in the afternoon, plus I will be
getting help from local sports people such as Wasps and Coventry Blaze, who are already
involved with the school.
GO Outdoors have agreed to supply the cookers and gas for the day, so that is one thing I
don’t need to worry about.
Marriott Hotel & Country Club, Forest of Arden will be offering us support in the way of a
Chef and some of the ingredients. Our local Sainsbury’s will be sending along some of their
staff to help out and have agreed to provide any missing ingredients for us.
Howard Rose, Funding & Publicity Manager, said “I have had less than 4 weeks to arrange it
all with a one week holiday in the middle so it both excites me and terrifies me in equal
measures as it is such allot to organise in a relatively short time.”
One of our pupils, Nicole W, from year 4 (pictured) was so excited that she could not wait till
the big day and had to have a go at home.
Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or would like more information:
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2. www.letsgetcookingathome.org.uk