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lity Action – The Ark Foundation
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Funding was awarded to Hospitality Action’s Ark Foundation to continue their seminar programme to students of hospitality, aged 16-19, whether on full time or day release courses at Colleges and Universities throughout the United Kingdom. By way of educational seminars the Ark Foundation provides advice and information on how to avoid becoming an alcohol and drug mis-user and seeks to help combat binge drinking and to inform of its effects on the mind and body of the young and impressionable members of the hospitality industry. The seminars are designed for people to be able to identify with certain behavioural traits, recognise in themselves some of the characteristics described by the Presenters, who call on many of their own experiences with abusive alcohol drinking and drug misuse to illustrate and emphasise the problem facing the hospitality industry. In supporting the Ark Foundation the Trustees acknowledge that drug and alcohol abuse, particularly amongst young people, is a problem for society as a whole but appears to be particularly prevalent amongst employees of the hospitality industry.
The Ark reported that with funding received from the Trust they were able to visit 200 Colleges in 2010/11. “O
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The main purpose of the Jamie Oliver Foundation is to inspire disadvantaged young people by giving them the opportunity to create a better life for themselves in the restaurant, hospitality and catering sectors, through practical training and work placements.
All trainees must be disadvantaged young people aged 18-25 and unemployed. They are recruited through partner organisations: homeless charities, probation services, youth charities and Job Centre Plus.
They can also apply directly on line. Of the hundreds of applications the Jamie Oliver
Foundation receive they select 75 candidates for a face-to-face chance to convince them they are right. They have a taste test but ultimately what is required is a passion for food and a determination to get out of the situation the applicants are in. Of these, 45 go on to more intensive tests and team cook off, at the end of which 18 are offered a place.
The grant from the Trust would be used specifically to support the new group of trainees at Fifteen who took over the restaurant after graduation of the current cohort in September 2010. The funds will cover the costs of sourcing trips in 2011 to top quality producers around the UK and Italy.
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The Trust awarded The Kids’ Cookery School funding towards ‘KCS on Wheels’, their mobile kitchen that offers children and young people the opportunity to learn how to cook fresh, delicious and nutritious food from scratch using fresh ingredients. KCS on Wheels enables the Kids Cookery School to deliver hands on cookery workshops in individual settings or venues in hard to reach areas all over London, giving children from disadvantaged backgrounds, ethnic minority groups and those with disabilities who otherwise would not have the opportunity, the chance to learn to cook. “Our learning
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