Romilla Arber

The Food Education Trust was established by Romilla Arber in 2008 to promote the benefits of a home cooked, balanced diet, through the teaching of cooking skills to children and adults.

Currently the Trust is funded by all profits made from sales of her book
[ What’s for Dinner? ].

The demands of modern living have placed home cooking and the quality of what we eat and how we eat it way down the list of our priorities.

Food really should have far greater importance in our lives, given that it is the fuel that powers our bodies, and our health and general well being depend upon it.

With a little bit of knowledge and confidence everyone can eat home cooked food on a regular basis without resorting to pre prepared processed foods.

The Food Education Trust makes it’s first grant

The FET made it’s first award to the
[ Albany Centre ]. The money has been used to furnish a new kitchen in the Centre. The Centre exists to provide education to adolescents, who have fallen out of main stream education and it places a huge emphasis on the benefits derived by young people from a healthy diet, particularly with regard to behavioural issues.

Romilla Arber was first contacted by Rachel Butler of the Centre saying that she wanted to use “What’s for Dinner?” to form the basis of the children’s lunch menu and to get them involved in learning how to feed themselves. This has proved a great success. The Centre has recently been awarded ‘Healthy School’ status by the local authority.

The Albany Centre is holding an open day on 14th April 2010 to showcase the new facilities and publicise the positive impact that the new kitchen facilities are having on the pupils’ lives.

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