Celebrity chef and upcoming Great British Bake Off judge Dame Prue Leith has been announced as patron of The Children's Food Trust's Let's Get Cooking programme, the UK's largest network of healthy cooking clubs for children and their families.

Leith commented 'I'd like every child to cook and Let's Get Cooking is a fantastic programme by The Children's Food Trust that sets out to achieve this. Cooking is an essential skill and should be taught in schools year in year out.... If food education was part of every child's curriculum at school, so that every child was taught about food, learned to cook, and was encouraged to eat a decent diet, we'd go a long way to solving the obesity problem in the space of one generation'.