The Jamie Oliver Foundation is a registered charity whose mission is to empower, educate and engage as many people as possible to love and enjoy good food. This means learning how to cook, understanding where food comes from, and recognizing the power it can have on our health, happiness, and even finances. We do this through teaching, training and employment, and also by making good clear information available to as many people as possible.
Fifteen (established 2002)
Fifteen is a restaurant group that uses the magic of food to give unemployed young people a chance to have a better future.
The flagship Restaurant, Fifteen London, established in 2002 with two other locations following the same inspirational model: Fifteen Amsterdam (in 2004), Fifteen Cornwall (in 2006). At the heart of the business is the desire to enable young people to believe in themselves and persuade them the future is theirs to create. Every year, each restaurant takes on unemployed and under-qualified young people and trains them to become qualified chefs through a unique Apprentice Programme. They are taught to love and respect food and its provenance – taking in everything from traditional bakery and butchery, to the finest pastry skills.
The name 'Fifteen' comes from the original group of 15 apprentices who joined the London programme in 2002. Since then, more than 220 young people have graduated across all the restaurants, with some of them now running their own restaurants, starring on TV or working in top-class kitchens from London to New York to Sydney.
Jamie's School Dinners / Feed Me Better (established 2003)
The 2005 TV show, Jamie's School Dinners, uncovered the appalling quality of food served in school dining halls across the UK and subsequently Jamie started the Feed Me Better campaign, a petition to demand government intervention, funding and training for dinner ladies to address the problem.
Jamie received 271,677 signatures and in response the government established the School Food Trust whose mission is "to transform school food and food skills, promote the education of health of children and young people and improve the quality of food in schools."
Jamie's Ministry of Food (established 2008)
Ministry of Food is all about getting people cooking again. Jamie wants to show us that anyone can learn to cook – and that it's fun, cool, can save you money and help you, your family and friends to live a healthier life. It also promotes the idea of Pass It On, to encourage people to share their cooking skills with other people and teach their friends what they have learnt.
There are Ministry of Food centres in several locations around the UK, and the first centre in Australia will be open very soon.
Jamie's Food Revolution (established 2010)
Jamie's Food Revolution combines the ambitions of both Jamie's Ministry of Food and Jamie's School Dinners and exists to tackle the obesity epidemic in America.
The campaign seeks to educate people about food and cooking, address the quality of the food served in school lunch halls and inspire food retailers to provide good quality, fresh, local food to their customers.
The campaign is funded solely by donations made from the USA.
your donation will go a long way in helping support all of the above foundation causes.
