Last year saw over 8,700 participants take part in the competition. Springboard’s FutureChef is a four-staged nationwide culinary competition run by The Springboard Charity and is open to all 12-16 year olds resident in the UK.
The competition is aimed at supporting school’s food related curriculum and after school clubs, inspiring young people to explore food and cooking as a life skill, helping develop their culinary talent and informing them about entry routes into the hospitality industry in the UK.
Entrants will be expected to deliver a main meal and dessert for two, to budget, within 90 minutes.
Dee Smith, programmes director, Springboard, commented: “The Springboard FutureChef Competition is the UK’s biggest cooking challenge.
"It inspires students to learn to cook, introduces them and their schools to well respected industry chefs, offers the opportunity to win fantastic prizes and ultimately they gain anything from a valuable life skill to an informed career path into the UK’s leisure and hospitality industry.”
For more information about FutureChef, visit www.futurechef.uk.net