SWAPPING their business suits for chefs’ whites, Angela Bradford, from Barchester’s Central Division and her fellow managing directors at the company’s five divisions are going head-to-head with members of Barchester’s executive team to cook up a storm and raise vital funds for the organisation’s charitable foundation.

Staff and residents at Ross Court care home are willing Angela the best in achieving culinary supremacy in this year’s Barchester Charitable Foundation Cook Off.

Angela and the other company directors are keeping their cards very close to their chests regarding what they will be cooking up but they have been practising hard.

Angela said: “I am passionate about the Foundation so I jumped at the chance to be able to raise funds and give back.

I love cooking but I am usually just feeding the family so this will be rather different.

I am extremely competitive and I know my team mates are too so we will absolutely give it everything we’ve got to win.

General manager of Ross Court care home, Agda-Claudia Vasilateanu said: “We are all so proud of Angela for taking part in this challenge, we know she will give it her absolute best shot.

“The Foundation is so close to all of our hearts and the Cook Off will raise vital funds to help so many people, we’re 100 per cent behind her.

The Charitable Foundation helps connect vulnerable people and those living with a disability to community groups in their local area by providing grants to improve mobility and quality of life.

In 2025 the Foundation achieved a donation milestone of £424,000 which enabled the charity to provide vital help to a staggering 262 small groups and charities, plus 123 individuals in one year alone.

To support Angela, visit her fundraising page barchester.com/barchesters-charity-cook-off-2026.