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It is the shared goal of Oxford University Press and the Fifteen Foundation to educate, inspire and empower youth through education. Forged in early 2008, the unique education partnership between these two organisations was established to further this goal.
       
Fifteen was conceived in 2002 when Jamie Oliver had a simple idea: to give disadvantaged young people the chance to gain professional education and training in the restaurant industry and, in so doing, equip them for an independent, successful and positive future.
         
There is now a Fifteen Foundation in Australia and, as you read this, there is a group of young people being given the opportunity to turn their lives around by learning about food and cooking.
 
As a department of Oxford University, Oxford University Press will help to represent Food Technology as a credible and academically rigorous subject linked to numerous desirable and respected career paths.
 
We believe that education changes lives.
        
          
Peter Brown and Tobie Puttock
 
Peter Brown, Executive Director of the Fifteen Foundation, Australia
and Tobie Puttock, Founder and Consultant Chef of Fifteen
Melbourne.
'Having been a chef for many years I was approached to run the Fifteen kitchen in London. I was amazed at how my skill as a chef could be used to change the lives of young people in need. Moving back to Melbourne and starting Fifteen in my home town has been a dream of mine for a long time. Now there are many people who have seen the good work this training program can do and who share the enjoyment of helping people move forwards.'
Tobie Puttock, Founder and Consultant Chef at Fifteen Melbourne
 

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