Inspire and stimulate your employees with a high octane fun and educational team-building cooking event.
Break down hierarchy and barriers through a highly engaging and inclusive activity.
Entirely Hands-on (strictly no demonstrations) cookery to stir up competitive team spirit with a “Ready, Set, Cook” or “Team Bake Off” event.
At The Cooking Academy we add a fun and friendly competitive flavour to our cookery events. Our challenges pitch teams against one another to prepare and serve the best 3 course meal to a five-star standard.
All of this is taught, supervised and judged by our highly experienced Chefs.
Inspire and stimulate your employees with a high octane fun and educational team-building cooking event.
Break down hierarchy and barriers through a highly engaging and inclusive activity.
Entirely Hands-on (strictly no demonstrations) cookery to stir up competitive team spirit with a “Ready, Set, Cook” or “Team Bake Off” event.
At The Cooking Academy we add a fun and friendly competitive flavour to our cookery events. Our challenges pitch teams against one another to prepare and serve the best 3 course meal to a five-star standard.
All of this is taught, supervised and judged by our highly experienced Chefs.
Cooking is usually an activity reserved for personal space with family or loved ones. It is reminiscent of home life and therefore evokes a different set of emotions leading to the breakdown of professional barriers, to enable fantastic team collaboration between colleagues.
Contrast with many other team building activities, cooking is more inclusive and doesn’t isolate those individuals who may not be as physically able to be involved. Nor does it create a destructive or overly competitive atmosphere that deters from the true purpose.
Cooking also provides participants with practical skills and a hands-on experience that they can build into their everyday life recreating healthy and flavoursome meals at home.
Itinerary
Our events can run from 2-3hours through to an evening or whole day. They are fully flexible, built around your needs, with a typical example below:
Welcome drinks and canapés.
A spice trail or presentation to introduce the science of food and nutrition.
Team challenge and menu assessment – get into teams.
‘Ready Set Cook’ – 75 minutes of cooking to complete the challenge.
Stop cooking and judging of dishes.
Teams sit down to eat and drink together.
Prize giving to the winning team.
Our events are entirely managed by our team of chefs and event managers; we provide all necessary equipment, ingredients and even a mobile kitchen where required, so all you need to do is turn up and enjoy the day.
Locations
Central London, including the City ( 90 Central St, London EC1V 8AJ – Bellavita Academy 11c Dock St, London E1 8JN)
Hammersmith (Hammersmith College 9 Gliddon Rd, London W14 9BL)
Cambridge (Cambridge College, CB4 2QT)
Windsor (De Vere Estate,Burfield Rd, Old Windsor, Windsor SL4 2JJ)
Oxford (A Day In The Country Aynho, Banbury OX17 3AY)
and our home in Rickmansworth (Silverwood, London Road, WD3 1JR)
Group Sizes
Group sizes range from 6 to 60 people.
Customise Your Event
We can create bespoke events to suit your company requirements. We have expert Chefs and offer a whole range of cuisines ranging from Japanese, Indian and Thai to Italian and Desserts.
Please call our Event Planners today to create an event perfect for you and your team.
Make An Enquiry
Why choose cooking as your team-building
event of choice?
Cooking is usually an activity reserved for personal space with family or loved ones. It is reminiscent of home life and therefore evokes a different set of emotions leading to the breakdown of professional barriers, to enable fantastic team collaboration between colleagues.
Contrast with many other team building activities, cooking is more inclusive and doesn’t isolate those individuals who may not be as physically able to be involved. Nor does it create a destructive or overly competitive atmosphere that deters from the true purpose.
Cooking also provides participants with practical skills and a hands-on experience that they can build into their everyday life recreating healthy and flavoursome meals at home.
Itinerary
Our events can run from 2-3hours through to an evening or whole day. They are fully flexible, built around your needs, with a typical example below:
Welcome drinks and canapés.
A spice trail or presentation to introduce the science of food and nutrition.
Team challenge and menu assessment – get into teams.
‘Ready Set Cook’ – 75 minutes of cooking to complete the challenge.
Stop cooking and judging of dishes.
Teams sit down to eat and drink together.
Prize giving to the winning team.
Our events are entirely managed by our team of chefs and event managers; we provide all necessary equipment, ingredients and even a mobile kitchen where required, so all you need to do is turn up and enjoy the day.
Locations
Central London, including the City ( 90 Central St, London EC1V 8AJ – Bellavita Academy 11c Dock St, London E1 8JN)
Hammersmith (Hammersmith College 9 Gliddon Rd, London W14 9BL)
Cambridge (Cambridge College, CB4 2QT)
Windsor (De Vere Estate,Burfield Rd, Old Windsor, Windsor SL4 2JJ)
Oxford (A Day In The Country Aynho, Banbury OX17 3AY)
and our home in Rickmansworth (Silverwood, London Road, WD3 1JR)
Group Sizes
Group sizes range from 6 to 60 people.
Customise Your Event
We can create bespoke events to suit your company requirements. We have expert Chefs and offer a whole range of cuisines ranging from Japanese, Indian and Thai to Italian and Desserts.
Please call our Event Planners today to create an event perfect for you and your team.
Make An Enquiry
Reviews
“Just to say a big thank you for another successful team-building event. I was delighted to see how the event really brought them all together to work to achieve the tasks and they all really enjoyed themselves and have been buzzing about it in the office ever since. In fact it’s generated a lot of interest in cooking and they’re all keen to practise the recipes at home.”
Liz Barber – DLL Financial Solutions
“Our cookery event was designed to improve inter-team relationships and encourage colleagues to get to know each other outside the workspace, since happy employees mean happy customers – and growing revenues. Our objectives were met 100%, exceeding everyone’s expectations.”
Thomas Schneider – Concur Technologies
“Wow what a night!!! Feedback from everyone is AMAZING, they all enjoyed every minute even the stressful moments, and there were a few! Everyone is talking about it today! Thank you so much for putting on a great event for Phil and the team it will certainly be one to remember! Great food, wonderful helpful, calm chefs and great friendly staff, truly was special so thank you! The Global Team loved every minute and will take a great memory back to their home towns!”
Jan Spelman – Sodexo
SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
Companies with a strong and genuine CSR policy boast more engaged employees with increased retention, passion and creativity.
Team Building and Away Days
At The Cooking Academy, we work with organisations to bring groups of individuals together to create teams.
Corporate Athlete
Nutritional eating and well-being is vital to peak performance, whether it is physical, mental or emotional.
ENTERTAINMENT & HOSPITALITY
We create a fun and entertaining cooking event with the goal of providing an outstanding experience that will be remembered positively by your clients for many years to come.
Development and Leadership
Break the mould with your clients, stand out and be different! You’d be hard-pressed to find something more satisfying.
RECRUITMENT & SELECTION
Swap a sterile interview for an engaging cooking activity to discover their true personalities and skills.
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