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The Winter Soup Sale will take place on Tuesday 4 February from 12-2pm in Borough Market’s Green Market. In line with Borough Market’s commitment to sustainability, the soup will be served in compostable containers with no single use plastic cutlery on site.
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Young Marketeers Winter Soup Sale
London’s secondary school pupils will be turning their hands to market trading and showcasing their warming winter creations at Borough Market on Tuesday 4 February, with the return of the Young Marketeers Winter Soup Sale.
Classic chunky vegetable or a hearty leek and potato? The popular annual event sees children aged 11-16 from four London schools, sell soup and bread they have made from scratch at London’s iconic food market. All proceeds from the sale are donated to raise money for Borough Market’s partner food redistribution charity Plan Zheroes.
The event forms part of the Young Marketeers programme– a partnership between Borough Market and School Food Matters – which enables school children to grow their own fruit and veg, develop their cooking skills and knowledge, understand how to eat seasonally and avoid food waste.
The Winter Soup Sale is one of three sales that take place in the Market each year and is the only one where pupils make a dish from the produce they have grown, to sell. Ensuring the soups are up to the high standards local shoppers are used to, a special panel of food experts is brought into the partaking schools to select the top tasting soups to sell at the Market. Pupils also learn how to make the perfect bread to accompany their soup, with a bread-making class from renowned Borough Market bakery, Bread Ahead.
The Young Marketeers programme not only teaches children about where their food comes from and how to get the best out of it, it also encourages them to develop business-related skills that could help with future careers. This is learnt through workshops with the Market’s traders who share their secrets on how to attract customers to their stalls and sell their goods to make a profit.
Classic chunky vegetable or a hearty leek and potato? The popular annual event sees children aged 11-16 from four London schools, sell soup and bread they have made from scratch at London’s iconic food market. All proceeds from the sale are donated to raise money for Borough Market’s partner food redistribution charity Plan Zheroes.
The event forms part of the Young Marketeers programme– a partnership between Borough Market and School Food Matters – which enables school children to grow their own fruit and veg, develop their cooking skills and knowledge, understand how to eat seasonally and avoid food waste.
The Winter Soup Sale is one of three sales that take place in the Market each year and is the only one where pupils make a dish from the produce they have grown, to sell. Ensuring the soups are up to the high standards local shoppers are used to, a special panel of food experts is brought into the partaking schools to select the top tasting soups to sell at the Market. Pupils also learn how to make the perfect bread to accompany their soup, with a bread-making class from renowned Borough Market bakery, Bread Ahead.
The Young Marketeers programme not only teaches children about where their food comes from and how to get the best out of it, it also encourages them to develop business-related skills that could help with future careers. This is learnt through workshops with the Market’s traders who share their secrets on how to attract customers to their stalls and sell their goods to make a profit.