A cooking bus is on tour teaching the community about making their own healthy food.

The specially built lorry opens out into a purpose built kitchen, where a team of teachers will run cooking classes,

It will stop in Battersea Park from April 17 to 19, operated by food education programme Focus on Food.

In Wandsworth a focus is being placed on training teachers and schoolchildren, with the bus also touring four schools on April 18.

A school nurse and women from a community group are also being trained in how to educate others on nutrition, food safety and hygiene.

The aim is for the cooking school graduates to run their own cooking schools in the borough.

Teachers will watch their students being taught by Focus on Food staff to learn about teaching practical cooking.

The public are invited to watch what is happening on large screens outside the bus, with staff on hand to give advice.

Wandsworth Council have organised the bus to visit as part of its key strategy to cut childhood obesity.

Houda al Sharifi, head of public health, said: "The profile of cooking in schools has taken a great step forward thanks to the proposal to make practical cooking lessons compulsory for children aged between seven and 14.

"We fully support this, because we believe there’s only so much children can learn about nutrition from books without actually getting the chance to handle and cook food. 

"Now it’s essential that teachers are given the training the need to deliver these lessons and that schools have access to facilities and equipment to teach the subject effectively."