Learn to cook game, Derbyshire

Food Safari offers hands-on courses with farmers, fisherman and artisan food producers. The new Game in a Day workshop at Catton Hall, Derbyshire, teaches skills from boning pheasants and jointing rabbits to sides and sauces. Recipes made and eaten on the day could include confit partridge legs and Spanish-style quail. Other courses cover butchery, brewing, seafood and mushrooms.
• Game in a Day, 16 February, £150pp, 01728 621380, foodsafari.co.uk. Vouchers are available for all of these courses

Chef for a day, Monmouthshire

The Crown at Whitebrook, a Michelin-starred restaurant with rooms, offers the chance to help in the kitchen under chef James Sommerin. Guests meet the kitchen team, join in with morning preparation and help cook during a busy lunchtime service. Later, there's a tutored wine-tasting, a six-course dinner with matching wines, and a night in one of eight cosy rooms.
• From £495 for two, 01600 860254, crownatwhitebrook.co.uk

Yoga and raw food retreat, Perthshire

Get the year off to a good start on Wee Yogi's one-day raw food and yoga workshop at Eastwood House near Dunkeld. This price includes talks, organic meals and snacks, yoga class, raw food workshop, guided meditation and take-home recipes and tips. The house is set in nine acres of riverside gardens and woodland.
• £60, 5 January, 0777 322 9112, wee-yogi.co.uk

Cooking for kids, Cotswolds

Thyme cookery school's two-hour course, for ages eight to 14, at Southrop Manor, will teach children about where their food comes from. It includes picking vegetables, collecting eggs, and simple cooking. Families can stay in Thyme House or one of five cottages.
• 5 April, 30 May and 29 August, £55pp, accommodation extra, 01367 850174, thymeatsouthrop.co.uk

Making goat's cheese, North Yorkshire

Yellison Farm goat's cheese is used by Rick Stein and other top chefs. During a day on the farm, guests watch milking, then have a go at hanging, salting and rolling the curd with master cheesemaker Stephen Akrigg. There's a picnic lunch, and cheese to take home.
• £95 through Taste of the Wild, which runs a range of foraging and cooking courses, 07914 290083, tastethewild.co.uk

Malaysian street food, Manchester

At Ning restaurant in Manchester, chef Norman Musa teaches recipes from his home state of Penang, Malaysia's street food capital. The class includes hands-on tuition, food to take home, recipes and a starter spice pack.
• Malaysian street food class £145pp, 9 and 23 February, 23 March, 13 April, 0845 519 2878, ningcatering.com

Baking, Cornwall

Those in knead of developing their bread-making skills, could try Baker Tom, who has bakeries in Falmouth and Truro, and runs courses at the Bedruthan Steps Hotel in Mawgan Porth in the art of making artisan bagels, plus olive and tomato, soda, focaccia, sourdough and rye breads in one or two days.
• Intro to breadmaking; or speciality breadmaking, from £75pp including lunch, various dates, bakertom.co.uk