This report and summary is the product of discussions that included practitioners, planners, policy makers and academics. Discussions centred around viewing emergency food aid as one dimension of wider food poverty and ensuring we understood the nature and scale of causes, need and impact. The consensus was that local responses had to be informed, joined …
Community cafes and retailing
Emergency food aid: a national learning exchange
Publishers: Community Food and Health (Scotland), Health Scotland, NHs
Publication categories: Conferences and networking, Retailing and catering
Areas of Work: Community cafes and retailing, Food poverty and access, Networking and learning development
CFHS community cafe network funding
CFHS is inviting applications from groups of community cafes that want to set up a community café network or run joint promotional activities. Groups of cafes can apply for up to £1000. More details can be found here, or contact anne.gibson5@nhs.net
Posted in CFHS updates, Funding news, News
Area of Work: Community cafes and retailing
The contribution of community food initiatives to national food and health programmes
In 2012, Community Food and Health (Scotland) provided funding totalling £15,000 for six community food initiatives to build on their current work with one or more of the Scottish Government food and health programmes. This factsheet provides an overview of the work undertaken by the initiatives.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Business and project development
Related topics: community food activity, evaluation, funding, grants
Areas of Work: Community cafes and retailing, Cookery skills, Food and nutrition training, Food poverty and access, Funding
CFHS community cafe networking event 26 June 2014, Glasgow
This free CFHS event is open to anyone working in, managing, or supporting a community cafe, and will include opportunities to find out about Edinburgh Community Cafes network and the healthyliving award, and meet other community cafes. For more information contact anne.gibson5@nhs.net
Posted in CFHS updates, Events and conferences, News
Area of Work: Community cafes and retailing
Evaluation of the impact of the Scottish Grocers Federation Healthy Living Programme on community retailers
This research looks at the impact of the Scottish Grocers Healthy Living Programme’s training and resources on community retailers selling fruit and vegetables. The research highlights the benefits of both the training and resources, but also their limitations. It also makes some recommendations about how else the programme could support community retailers.
Publishers: Commissioned by CFHS, Traci Leven Research
Publication categories: Business and project development, Retailing and catering
Related topics: community food activity, community retailing, evaluation, training and qualifications
Areas of Work: Community cafes and retailing, Research and evaluation
Community cafe event
CFHS and Edinburgh Community Food are holding an event for Scotland’s community cafes on 8 August in the Well, the Square Centre, Edinburgh from 12.30 to 4.30 pm. Our community cafe event will give cafe staff and volunteers a chance to meet other cafe workers, hear about the work of other community cafes from across …
Posted in CFHS updates, Events and conferences, News
Area of Work: Community cafes and retailing
Local food micro funding
CFHS fact sheet that summarises the feedback obtained from six community food initiatives funded by CFHS to buy and sell or use more locally-grown fruit and vegetables.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Retailing and catering
Areas of Work: Community cafes and retailing, Funding
Impact of ‘winter promotion’ funding, 2013
CFHS fact sheet that summarises the feedback obtained from community food retailers funded by CFHS to run promotional activities in winter 2013.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Related topics: community food activity, community retailing, food co-op, funding
Areas of Work: Community cafes and retailing, Funding
Shared tastes and common values
Exploring Scotland’s past, current and potential future relationship between co-operation, food and health.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Retailing and catering
Related topics: case studies, community food activity, community retailing, food co-op, social enterprise
Areas of Work: Community cafes and retailing, Social enterprise
Community cafe event, June 2014
CFHS held a networking event for community cafes on 26 June 2014 in Glasgow. The aims of the event were to give everyone taking part the chance to meet staff and volunteers from other community cafes; space and time to think about and discuss the future; the chance to find out about the Edinburgh Community …