Hands On Seafood Cooking Class with Daniel Campos. On 20th June, Acland Burghley School in Tufnell Park, London will become the first school in the country to host a community cooking class supported by Eat School Rent, the UK social enterprise reinventing how schools generate much needed income. The school will open its kitchens for a hands‑on seafood cookery class led by Daniel Campos, a London‑based professional chef and culinary lecturer with more than 25 years of experience specialising in seafood. Daniel’s says “Seafood can sometimes seem intimidating, but with a few simple techniques anyone can learn to cook great fish dishes at home”.
Eat School Rent is a Social Enterprise Focussed on Raising Money for Schools by Letting out Their Kitchens. This inaugural event represents a new model for how schools can activate their kitchen spaces for the benefit of the community, offering high‑quality learning experiences while showcasing the potential of Eat School Rent’s approach outside its core work with food businesses.
All ingredients will be brought in fresh for the session, and the kitchen will be left fully cleaned and ready for normal school use the following morning.
Eat School Rent’s (ESR) mission is to tackle the huge funding challenges in education by letting out under‑used school kitchens to vetted commercial businesses. By opening professional kitchens in schools’ to local food operators during evenings, weekends and holidays, ESR creates new, low‑barrier revenue streams for schools while giving independent restaurants, chefs, and food businesses access to fully equipped kitchens without the crippling cost of commercial rents or investment in costly equipment.
Eat School Rent was launched in London in June 2025 and has been successfully working with schools across the capital and the country, including Mora Primary School in Cricklewood, Brentford School for Girls, Queen’s Park Community School and Billesley Primary School in Birmingham.
Cooking classes in London are hugely popular and the sector generates hundreds of millions of pounds each year. Providing chefs with high quality, affordable and flexible kitchens result in high demand for teaching spaces. This economic activity can benefit schools’ eternally stretched budgets. ESR positions itself as the antidote to high‑cost, high‑risk entry for budding cooking teachers looking to generate income and a new revenue stream for schools facing tightening budgets.
For many schools, there is the potential to add tens of thousands of pounds to their budgets minimal zero staff burden, and no disruption to teaching or the running of the school.
Ben Rosenberg, Founder, Eat School Rent explains “We are excited to move to the next stage of operation at Eat School Rent. Following successful trials with schools in Cricklewood, Queens Park, Brentford and Birmingham running restaurant delivery operations we can add more use cases and that means adding more avenues to income for schools. This event shows how school kitchens can be used creatively to support communities while demonstrating the flexibility of the Eat School Rent model. We’re proud to support Daniel’s class as the first of its kind.”
Kat Miller, Director of Operations, Acland Burghley School says “We are delighted to be working with Eat School Rent. Their innovative approach means we can earn revenue while they manage the cost, risk, and effort. Using our food technology teaching facilities to provide this exciting opportunity is great for the school and for the local community – especially as Daniel is offering parents a discounted rate!”
Daniel Campos, Chef & Instructor, adds “As a chef and teacher, I’m always looking for ways to help people become more confident in the kitchen. Acland Burghley has fantastic teaching facilities, and they are ideal for practical cooking classes. I also like the fact that by running classes here we can support the school at the same time.
Seafood can sometimes seem intimidating, but with a few simple techniques anyone can learn to cook great fish dishes at home”
