Tesco Stronger Starts has expanded its commitment to promoting children’s health and wellbeing across the UK. After the successes of our recent Footie for All and Activity for All funds, we are now expanding ‘for all’ to include Cooking for All.

In recognition of children needing a Stronger Start in life, our Cooking for All campaign in partnership with The Sun, will offer £150k in grants through the Tesco Stronger Starts fund in an effort to improve children’s access to healthy food, have a wider understanding of where food comes from and an opportunity to learn how to prepare and cook healthy and nutritious meals.

How does Cooking for All work?

With 150 grants of £1,000 each available, Tesco is committed to helping local communities thrive by investing in children and young people, supporting them through access to healthy food, nutritional information, where food comes from, and how to cook it.

Cooking for All is managed by Groundwork.

Who is eligible to apply?

The applicants must be an organisation or school in local communities with a priority on supporting children and young people up to the age of 16 with access to healthy, nutritious food, and educating them around food, particularly how to cook.

What type of projects can apply to the Cooking for All Fund?

Applications are open to any not-for profit organisation or school who support young people up to the age of 16 around nutrition, healthy eating and cooking.

Do we need match funding?

Cooking for All can fund 100% of your project costs so you do not need any match funding. However, if you have secured additional funding, there is no limit to what this amount can be and any funding awarded by Tesco can form part of your wider project costs.

Groups that are ineligible

• Projects that support over 16’s
• Individuals
• Community Interest Companies (CICs) limited by shares
• Community Interest Companies (CICs) that are less than two years old
• Profit-making organisations