The Jamie Oliver Group

🚨 * New vacancies open! * 🚨 Jamie is looking to find the next winners of his annual Good School Food Awards 2025. Positions include - 🌟 Lifetime Achievement Award 👩🍳 School Chef Champions 🦸 Food Kindness Hero 🎒 Food Educator of the Year 🏅 Food for Fitness (with the only and only Joe Wicks) 💥 School Food Leader Responsibilities include - ✅ Being nationally recognised as a pioneer for nutritious and delicious school food and amazing food education ✅ Celebrated by Jamie Oliver and a panel of celebrity judges - with surprise visits to their schools and a host of brilliant prizes ✅ The chance to be championed on national television, on one of Britain's most watched daytime TV shows, This Morning ✅ Work benefits may include overwhelming feelings of joy Do you know anyone who is up for the job? Head to https://lnkd.in/e-jgyjWm to read more about the categories and get nominating! A huge shout to our sponsors - partners @tefaluk and technology partners Wonde for making the awards possible. #GoodSchoolFoodAwards2025

What does it feel like to be a winner? 🤔 Take it from Chef Russ - alumni winner from 2024’s Good School Food Awards, Community Kindness Award 🌟 Chef Russ of Pokesdown Primary School converted a literal store cupboard into a fully functioning kitchen - serving hot, nutritious meals (even homemade bread!) to hundreds of school children, ensuring people went into lessons fed & happy, no matter how limited his resources were. Russ went on to cook up a favourite from Pokesdown Community School on BBC’S Morning Live and now is recent winner of the All Party Parliamentary Group Award for Excellence in School Food - awarded by the government. To hear more about his success story, head to https://lnkd.in/eSnVvSbq and nominate the next Chef Russ of this year’s Good School Food Awards! We had the pleasure of Chef Russ visiting the office this week to catch up with Jamie and the team! 🩵 A huge shout to our sponsors - partners @tefaluk and technology partners Wonde for making the awards possible. #GoodSchoolFoodAwards2025

🧠 “GREAT MINDS DON’T THINK ALIKE” 🧠 Is one of the many painted slogans that were waving outside of Parliament this Tuesday, as Jamie went to speak to Education Secretary Briget Philipson and the rest of parliament, about the need to reform KS1 education systems to ensure every learning type is accounted for. Having suffered with dyslexia throughout his own school journey, Jamie called to the general public to share their own stories of living with dyslexia and other educational needs, in order to raise some noise around just how many people are being ignored in our classrooms - that’s 870,000 students by the way. What’s Jamie asking for? 🔍 Spot the signs early How can we help kids if we don’t even know they need support? Early screening is key—it lets us catch it early, before they’re left to struggle. Jamie wants every child to have a universal dyslexia screening check within their first two years of school. 👩🏫 Support our teachers Teachers are amazing and of course they want to help every child, so let’s make sure they get the training and support to do it. Jamie wants every educator to have the training to teach every child, not just the 75% who fit the current system. Jamie’s new documentary all about living with dyslexia and the hopeful future we can all work towards to make sure every mind matters in the classroom, is out this Summer on Channel 4. #JamieOliver #Campaigning #Dyslexia #FixTheSystemNotTheKids

“Why don’t we have pancakes all year round?” The question on many people’s lips after this week’s much-loved Pancake Day on Tuesday 🥞 We have calculated that Jamie’s One Cup Pancake recipe from his Ministry of Food’s 10 Skills Programme, has been cooked a flippin’ 10,150 times by kids up and down the UK. Definitely an all-round favourite! Need more pancakes and sharing the joy of learning essential cooking skills in your school? Sign up to Jamie’s 10 Skills programme here for key stage 3 - https://lnkd.in/e8x5-3hQ 👩🍳 #MinistryOfFood #FoodEducation #10skills

‘WE’RE BACK!’ Round 3 of finding the nation’s school food heroes has ARRIVED 🌟 The Good School Food Awards 2025 is now LIVE and ready for your nominations to come through in - their - numbers. Do you know a brilliant school caterer? A stellar staff member or amazing food educator who is going the extra mile? We want to MEET them! In fact, our brand new panel of celebrity judges want to meet them, including - Pixie Lott The Wiggles Jessie & Lennie Ware  Josie Gibson  Cast of The Royal Shakespeare Company’s multi-award winning Matilda the Musical  Gladiator’s Montell Douglas and Zack George Joe Wicks Mary Berry Big Has  Steph McGovern  Afua Hagan Ellie Simmonds George Webster Lina Nielson Dr Punam Krishan Niamh McGrady And Jamie, of course! 👨🍳 The quest for the UK’s Good School Food icons is bigger than ever and we are hungry (oo - pun!)  to show what GOOD looks like in our schools. Ringing any lunch bells for people you know? 🔔 GET NOMINATING! Head to https://lnkd.in/e-jgyjWm to nominate now. A huge shout to our sponsors - partners Tefal and technology partners Wonde for making the awards possible. #GoodSchoolFoodAwards2025

A day that always leaves us feeling warm & fuzzy is our Annual Ministry of Food Networking Day. It's a day where we connect all our representatives from our Ministry of Food community partners across the UK and celebrate the fantastic work going into the programme roll out. And of course, chat about how we reach for the stars and get even more people cooking! 🌟 Jamie’s Ministry of Food programme is rolled out across several partnerships, in schools, community spaces and work places all across the country, by our fantastic facilitators, teaching people essential food education skills and knowledge - for the chance of a healthier and happier life. The Ministry of Food aims to teach 1 million people by 2030 and in this past year alone our community partners have taught over 4,000 people to cook, taking us to our latest total of just over 230,000. Our partners fed back that - 🧑🍳 Attendees of our classes gave us a rating of 4.9 out of 5  👩🍳 On average, class participants went from cooking less than once a week to cooking 2-3 a week - FROM SCRATCH!  👨🍳 Attendees reported eating 1.2 more portions of fruit and veg a day What’s that? Grass-roots education showing results? You bet! And we are so proud of all the work that has been poured into this foundation. Thank you to all our brilliant partners for all you do and for making the journey to see us! #MinistryOfFood

We can't wait to meet some brilliant minds to help shape our sustainability journey! 🩵 #StudentJams

We LOVED having the brilliant Jimi Famurewa with us at HQ this week, to talk about his book 'Settlers - Journeys through the food, faith & culture of Black African London.' Hosted by our very own Rebecca Morten, the fireside chat covered writing processes, cultural storytelling through food, the roles of digital and print in food media and importantly, the best burger joints in town 🍔 (P.s, Buster's, Brixton was mentioned...) Always such a treat to have fellow members of the food family at Benwell to catch up. #FoodCommunity #JamieOliverHQ

What a brilliant day at Ambiente yesterday, sharing the Big Love at the iconic homeware show in Frankfurt 🩵 Jamie joined hundreds of customers & exhibitors from across the globe, to share the story of his new oven-to-table serveware range, Big Love, which has been shaped by his 25 years of photography, travel and food styling. Designed to celebrate every dish, Big Love champions Jamie's generous family-style of cooking and feasting, that has been a part of his world since The Naked Chef. What a joy to share the new range at Ambiente - see the full range available now at John Lewis & Partners https://lnkd.in/eAXN8Ecb #Ambiente2025 #BigLove

Exciting news - Jamie's delicious food products across both frozen and ambient grows with an expansion into North America https://lnkd.in/emfd9BJT