On 25 February Community Food and Health (Scotland) and Consumer Focus Scotland co-hosted a roundtable discussion looking at issues around older people’s access to affordable healthy food of their choice.
Food poverty and access
Focus on food services for older people
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Policy and planning
Related topics: access, affordability, choice, discussion, food poverty, low income, older people
Areas of Work: Food poverty and access, Networking and learning development, Older people
Report from national food discussion seminar
On 18 March 2008 CFHS facilitated a national seminar to ensure that the experience and understanding of low-income communities is included in the development of a National Food Policy for Scotland. The report from that seminar has been submitted to the Scottish Government in response to the discussion paper ‘Choosing the Right Ingredients: The Future …
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Policy and planning
Related topics: discussion, homelessness, inclusion, inequalities, low income, policy, Scottish Government
Areas of Work: Food poverty and access, Networking and learning development
Dysart Food and Health Initiative
An evaluation of a project using participatory appraisal methods to explore the opportunities for increasing healthy eating choices in the Dysart regeneration area in Fife.
Publisher: Vikki Hilton
Publication category: Policy and planning
Related topics: access, action planning, choice, evaluation, Fife, food poverty, healthy eating, participatory appraisal
Areas of Work: Food poverty and access, Research and evaluation
Promotion of REHIS Food and Health Course to low income communities
In June 2006 Community Food and Health (Scotland) commissioned Fiona Burrell to carry out a promotion of the REHIS Food and Health course in low income communities. This summary outlines the results of the promotion.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Professional development
Related topics: affordability, food training, low income
Areas of Work: Food and nutrition training, Food poverty and access
Wallyford Participatory Appraisal
Using a range of visual tools the group engaged with a wide range of people in Wallyford to determine what is important to them about local food access.
Publisher: East Lothian Council
Publication category: Policy and planning
Related topics: access, community planning, Lothians, participatory appraisal, shops
Areas of Work: Food poverty and access, Networking and learning development
Breakfast Clubs… More of a Head Start
Provides an insight into the process of developing a breakfast club at every stage from set-up to sustainability in current policy climate. Poses important questions and shares practical solutions to problems that others have encountered
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication categories: Children and young people, Retailing and catering
Related topics: affordability, breakfast clubs, children, health and safety, inclusion, schools, volunteers
Areas of Work: Community cafes and retailing, Families with children, Food poverty and access
Community mobile food initiatives in Scotland
Report looking at how two projects on different sides of Scotland’s central belt have attempted to tackle issues of food poverty and access by developing their own local mobile healthy food shops
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Retailing and catering
Related topics: delivery, food supply chain, fruit and vegetables, inequalities, transport
Areas of Work: Community cafes and retailing, Food poverty and access
Routes to Health
Newsletter highlighting the work of two community projects from different urban and rural settings in Scotland – Health on Wheels in Paisley and Roots and Fruits in East Lothian – which run purpose-built mobile food shops.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Retailing and catering
Related topics: affordability, delivery, diet and nutrition, fruit and vegetables, low income, mobile, Renfrewshire, rural, shopping, supermarkets, transport, urban
Areas of Work: Community cafes and retailing, Food poverty and access
Hard to Stomach
Recommendations sought by the Scottish Government from a working group on food access and affordability, supported by CFHS, were sent to Ministers shortly before the recent election campaign. The report produced by the group involved representatives from community and voluntary organisations in Edinburgh, Lanarkshire, Fife and Dumfries and Galloway.