More Duke of Edinburgh Gold Residential Cookery Courses than ever at the Yorkshire Wolds Cookery School

Learn to cook on one of our Duke of Edinburgh Gold Residential courses

Wold Escapes, home to the Yorkshire Wolds Cookery School is running more weeks of our Duke of Edinburgh Gold Residential courses than ever before!  In 2025 we will be running 12 weeks of our popular five-day residential course.

In 2024 we were fully booked with a waiting list, so this year we decided to add even more dates to help you complete your residential section of your Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme in a fun way – whilst also skills for life!

When are the dates?

We have already run a five-day course during February half term and the next residential is planned to start on Monday 30^th June.

Here are the dates available to book:

• Monday 30^th June to Friday 4^th July 2025
• Monday 7^th to Friday 11^th July 2025
• Monday 14^th to Friday 18^th July 2025
• Monday 21^st July to Friday 25^th July 2025
• Monday 28^th July to Friday 1^st August 2025
• Monday 4^th to Friday 8^th August 2025
• Monday 11^th to Friday 16^th August 2025
• Monday 18^th to Friday 22^nd August 2025
• Monday 25^th to Friday 29^th August 2025
• Monday 20^th to Friday 24^th October 2025
• Monday 27^th to Friday 31^st October 2025

For more information and to book visit our Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award website page.  If you would rather book over the phone call us on 01377 270607.

The Yorkshire Wolds Cookery School is an Approved Activity Provider

Yes, we are a Duke of Edinburgh Award Approved Activity Provider.  That means that this five-day residential will count towards your Gold Award.

We do therefore have to adhere to D of E rules and students may only know one other person on the course.

What is included?

This residential is based at our award-winning cookery school with a maximum of 12 students per group.  Smaller groups mean that all the cookery lessons are very hands on, and you will learn loads of skills whilst making new friends.

We have a nine-bedroom B&B attached to the cookery school with large lounge, dining room and games room allowing students to have some down time.

All our B&B bedrooms have their own bathroom and are set up as twin rooms, so you will be sharing.  There is however an option to have your own room for a supplement fee of £100, though this is subject to availability.

If you would like to stay with us the night before the course starts, then we offer a discounted rate of £70 for single occupancy including a full Yorkshire breakfast the next morning.  Do note however that no evening meal is provided that night as you will be regarded as one of our regular B&B guests.

The Duke of Edinburgh Residential course starts on the Monday morning at 10.30am and finished at 3.30pm on the Friday.

How much is it?

The five-day residential course costs £775 and includes accommodation for four nights, all ingredients and food.  There are also plenty of evening activities, so it’s not all cooking!

We are based on a farm in the East Yorkshire countryside, so students are able to get outdoors and explore some of our local walks.

What will I learn?

The course is packed with recipes that are designed to be affordable for student-living while still having the ‘wow’ factor for those wanting to dazzle family or friends.  Students will learn a range of different culinary techniques, so they leave us with the confidence to not only create our recipes again but to adapt and create their own.

Our experienced tutors will teach you skills such as:

• Knife Skills
• Food Hygiene
• Restaurant Service Skills – always helpful if applying for jobs whilst at university
• Safety in the kitchen
• Healthy eating
• Use of leftovers and bulk cooking to save money
• A huge range of dishes will be taught from healthy breakfast options to entertaining on a budget, cake baking and perfect pastry!

The dishes you will create vary greatly and we can cover all dietary requirements, just let us know what they are when you book.  The type of dishes you will be making vary from smoothies, scotch pancakes and eggs benedict to pizzas, stir fries, chicken curry and roast dinners, to fruit crumbles, profiteroles and deliciously naughty chocolate fudge cake.  The list is endless…

Get in touch with any Questions?

Please get in touch if you have any questions, we are more than happy to talk through any queries you may have.  Call the office on 01377 270607 or email us: info@woldescapes.co.uk

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We hope to meet you soon!