Love teaching and cooking?

"I felt that I had lost my enthusiasm for teaching and everything was  getting too hard, I was always tired and wanted to learn how to do something new and exciting.

I love working with children  but planning and delivering 6/7 sessions per day was getting too much, on top of having to do work at home, attend meetings and so on.... Now I feel I can concentrate on one thing and do it well.

I think as a Teacher you  have lots of transferable skills (being organised, planning well, working with groups of children, liaising with parents...), I  felt I could use these skills in another way (without the bureaucracy of the education system).

I can still work part time (I work more or less as I feel I can / want to). I feel more in control and I enjoy working again! The children still amaze me, just in a different context and it's nice to get to know parents better."

Carrie- Ann (ex teacher), Cook Stars Rossendale and Blackburn

Be rewarded for doing something rewarding!

If you are a teacher and love teaching (or if you want to be a teacher) then Cook Stars offers an exciting alternative career route.

Cook Stars is a fast growing 'cookery class and party' franchise with opportunities throughout the UK. With our award winning unique system, we deliver fun and engaging sessions to children through our network of passionate franchisees.

Over a third of our amazing team are ex-school teachers!

Here's why! They all have in common that they really love teaching. However sadly they found themselves disillusioned with teaching at schools and increasingly difficult to do the bit they love - teaching! They wanted to find a different way to fulfil their passion for teaching. Cook Stars for them has provided a way to fulfil their love of teaching whilst taking control of their career in a rewarding role which offers job satisfaction that is second to none!

Our teachers tell us they love running their Cook Stars business because:

  • We are not governed by any regulatory body. This means there are no reports to write / guidelines to follow.
  • There are no assessments.
  • There is no marking.
  • You do not have to spend any time at all coming up with ideas, we have done it all for you!
  • You do not have to spend hours planning and prepping to fulfil your role, other than getting together the ingredients and packing the class equipment. We have taken care of all of everything else!
  • We understand that teachers are not familiar with how to run a business so we teach you everything you need to know.
  • We offer a huge amount of support and hand holding to ensure you succeed.


Basically there is none of the hassle, just all the fun! Our teachers have the opportunity to teach, run their own business and be fully in control.

We have already done the ground work for you. To make it easy for you, we have:

  • Designed around 175 delicious and varied sweet and savoury recipes.
  • Produced lesson plans, shopping lists, packing lists to accompany each recipe.
  • Produced a video tutorial for each recipe.
  • Provided craft activity ideas for the children to do whilst the food cooks.

We are an award winning business with an award-winning formula!!

Running a franchise gives you all the excitement, rewards and fulfilment of teaching whilst running your own business and being in control.

We have so much to tell you! To find out more about joining our award-winning team, just fill in your details below and we'll send you our free brochure and related information.