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ceti t); the runner-up was Hanna Sherwood from London Marriott Grosvenor Square; and the third place went to Marissa Doel from First Protocol Events Management.
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Since it was first introduced in 1999, FutureChef, has grown into a hugely successful, annual nationwide competition helping young people aged 12-16 to learn to cook, take an interest in food, and provide a unique insight into the world of professional cooking by capturing imagination, recognising talent and providing a potential platform to enter the hospitality sector. FutureChef was developed as a result of research findings into young people’s perception of the industry. The research revealed that young people admire high profile celebrity chefs yet surprisingly few generally consider a career as a chef! It provides the industry with a talent pipeline and there is a growing FutureChef alumni progressing their careers in the industry. For those that decide not to enter the industry it succeeds in providing young people with a vital life skill that the National Curriculum currently fails to do. There are four stages to the competition and ultimately one talented student is crowned the FutureChef winner.
Running alongside the competition is the FutureChef ‘wider’ programme of activity. Funding from the Trust was used to support this programme which continues to develop. The aim is to extrapolate the benefits of linking participants up with mentor chefs from industry at an earlier stage of the competition and put into place a programme to help maintain the interest and enthusiasm of the participants irrespective of whether they progress to the next stage of the competition or not. A UK wide schedule of mentoring, work experience, demonstrations, skills challenges, careers presentations, workshops and master classes is designed to stimulate and nurture talent into the industry, along with advice on career options and entry routes available. The wider programme aims to provide teachers and young people alike with a real insight into what it is like to be a chef and the related career opportunities.
In 2013, the 13th year of the competition, 525 schools and 8,768 participants took part in the competition. As at May 2013, 3,807 young people were involved in the wider programme although information is still being collated so this number is likely to increase. The winner of FutureChef 2013 was Hayley Cancea aged 14 from The Deepings School, in the East of England. The runner-up was Kieran Paterson, aged 16 from The Lockerbie Academy in Central & Southern Scotland. On hearing she was the winner, Hayley said “The t t
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