About Cookley Cooking Kids

The Cookley Cooking Kids is a young enterprise project, originally delivered as a programme at Cookley Youth Club. A group of local young people were tasked with developing and creating a healthy eating cookbook, which other young people in their community would be able use and enjoy. As they progressed through the process they gained online digital badges for each enterprise task completed… and finally leading to the production and sale of the first Cookley Cooking Kids cookbook, themed around ‘Healthy Breakfasts’.

Young entrepreneurs started the process by designing bespoke branding for the cookbook, which included a logo, name and mascot. As well as gaining young enterprise skills in branding, market research, sponsorship, fundraising & finance – young entrepreneurs also created multi media to accompany the cookbook, including augmented reality animations and creating YouTube videos.

In 2023, Digital Badge IT CIC, now known as Junior ChangeMakers CIC, was awarded funding from The National Lottery Community Fund for the next phase of Cookley Cooking Kids: Grow It, Cook It, Eat It. The CIC’s founder had previously managed the project at the youth club, providing a direct link between its beginnings and this next stage. Overseen by the CIC, this phase built on the project’s foundations, giving children opportunities to develop practical growing and cooking skills and explore the journey from plot to plate.