ICSA COOKS CLUB: Free for students of all levels. Membership delivers tasty benefits. As a membership focused, not-for-profit organisation, at ‘ICSA’ we value your support. By registering below, you will become part of our ‘ICSA…
‘Cook well for less’Sustainable Cooking, Healthy Eating. BRITISH COOKERY SCHOOLS WEEK RETURNS THIS OCTOBER 1ST-8TH 2023.Join us! Sign up below. Or if you are a cookery school wishing to take part in this national initiative,…
Since the COVID pandemic, many of us fell back in love with home cookery, seeking methods to improve cookery skills firstly on-line via YouTube lessons, and more recently in person across the UK's cookery schools.…
Sustainability is a multi-layered opportunity for meaningful change. It can be personal, local, national, multi-national and global, says Stella West-Harling MBE, president of Independent Cookery Schools Association (ICSA). For ICSA cookery school members, signing up…
Accreditation Assessment Process and Procedures By Andrew Maxwell, ICSA Founder Member and Accreditation Inspector ICSA was founded in 2014 by industry leaders, on a platform to support the best of the UK’s independent cookery school…
What are the risks? We all know that running a Cookery School to offer a great experience to amateur and budding chefs of all ages comes with risks and hazards which you do not have…
Lakeland Retail LTD unveils its plans for the launch of its first ever loyalty club, myLakeland. Launched on 16th August 2019 ‘myLakeland’ is Lakeland’s thank you to customers for shopping with the brand, giving them…
Independent hotel group ‘Best Loved Hotels’ have teamed up with 'ICSA Cookery Schools' to publish a printed and on-line guide to some of the best hotels and Greatest British immersive experiences across the UK. With…
Plant based diets are becoming popular as we choose to eat less meat and more vegetables. Food and issues surrounding sustainability are irrefutably linked. Rachel Demuth of Plant Based Cookery School, Demuths, in Bath explains more. From production methods, water use,…
ICSA member schools focus on sourcing not only regionally where possible but also seasonally; ingredients are chosen to reflect the seasons, to ensure relevance. Buying seasonally is also far better value for money, as regional, seasonal ingredients are…
Championing Animal Welfare & Responsible Farming is one of the core values of ICSA member cookery schools. During World Wars I and II, those who were not out fighting in the trenches or on the beaches,…
ICSA has long focused on sustainability as one of their core values, and this year made it a core mission for their accredited cookery schools to move to teaching about and aspiring to minimal or zero single…
ICSA schools are committed to using the best ingredients and some ICSA cookery schools even grow their own food; it doesn’t come more local than that! The wonderful renaissance in British food, helped along by TV chefs, pioneering restaurants,…
Customers want to improve their health, stats reveal. According to an extended report recently commissioned and published by Nestle, as a result of 63% of the UK population being overweight or obese , money is…
Becoming a business owner certainly has its advantages: take having greater control over your working day, coupled with the feeling that you’ve built something of your own – for many it’s all that’s needed to…
Peanuts are a common allergen The way Cookery Schools are required to label allergens legally changed two months ago. Are you making the necessary changes? ICSA has been looking into what this means for independent…
