Orchards Cookery is a multi-award winning (including Cookery school of the Year, Best English Cookery School…) family run cookery school based on a farm in the heart of England, near Stratford upon Avon. Courses are intensive and great fun, each day concluding with a dinner party. Over 100 different dishes are covered on a 5 day course and 2 week courses are also available.

Other courses on offer include an Off to University course, a Chalet Cooks course (The Orchards specialises in training and recruiting chalet staff) and a Dinner Party Course.

Over 350 DofE candidates come through the school each year to complete their Residential.

There are small class sizes of 8 students in a kitchen, with the fun of up to 48 young people at the school (minimum age 16 years). There are incredible facilities including a multi-use games area for tennis, football, basketball, etc. a gym, table tennis tables, pool table, volley ball court, badminton court (summer), bar and dancefloor etc.

Orchards Cookery also helps its students with recruitment enabling young people to gain paid employment in ski chalets, private houses, shooting, hunting and fishing lodges, holiday villas and yachts etc.