Health up in smoke; community kitchens; community food initiatives working in partnership; food waste resources; readership survey
Publications
Fare Choice Issue 59
Publication category: Newsletters
Area of Work: Information provision
Strengthening food work across minority ethnic communities
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The January networking meeting reviewed the recent CFHS funded learning opportunities and looked at priorities for support in 2012 – 2013.
Publication category: Conferences and networking
Related topics: conference, minority ethnic
Areas of Work: Minority ethnic communities, Networking and learning development
Evaluation – CFHS ‘summer promotion’ funding for community food retailers, 2011
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This report summarises feedback from organisations awarded funding from CFHS through a funding scheme run in summer 2011.
Publication categories: Business and project development, Retailing and catering
Related topics: evaluation, grants
Areas of Work: Community cafes and retailing, Funding, Research and evaluation
Retail in Rural Regions Final Report – Scotland
(September 2011)
The final report, produced from a Scottish perspective, on the northern European transnational study into rural retailing.
Publication categories: Policy and planning, Retailing and catering
Related topics: community retailing, European, remote, rural, shops, study tours and exchanges
Area of Work: Community cafes and retailing
Fare Choice Issue 58
Shelf life
(December 2011)
Challenges facing community food initiatives: community cookbooks; Early Years Food and Health project.
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: baby feeding, early years, economic crisis, obesity and overweight, pregnancy and maternal health, recipes
Area of Work: Information provision
Development of a produce supply chain between community growers, caterers, and retailers in Edinburgh
Feasibility study
(October 2011)
CFHS commissioned Blake Stevenson to carry out research into the feasibility of establishing a produce supply chain between community growers, caterers and retailers in Edinburgh.
Publication categories: Cooking and growing, Retailing and catering
Related topics: catering, community retailing, food supply chain, growing and gardening, research
Areas of Work: Community cafes and retailing, Research and evaluation
Strengthening food work across minority ethnic communities
notes of meeting 24 August
(September 2011)
Notes from a meeting held in Edinburgh to look at what is needed to further support food work across minority ethnic communities in Scotland.
Publication category: Policy and planning
Related topics: funding, minority ethnic, networking, pilot, practice, training and qualifications, volunteers
Areas of Work: Minority ethnic communities, Networking and learning development
Fare Choice Issue 57
Class act
(September 2011)
Training opportunities; food prices; food and nostalgia; REHIS Elementary food and health course; older people eating well; Healthy Start; fare futures; class act.
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: affordability, community cafes, early years, food training, funding, grants, obesity and overweight, older people
Area of Work: Information provision
Community Food Initiatives Retailing in Hospitals and Health Centres
(September 2011)
This publication looks at the work of several community food initiatives that are, or have been, running fruit and vegetables in hospitals and other health service premises.
Publication category: Retailing and catering
Related topics: case studies, fruit and vegetables, hospitals, social enterprise, volunteers
Area of Work: Community cafes and retailing
Evaluation of community-based mental health organisations training in food, nutrition and health funding 2010
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Findings from the evaluation of funding CFHS made available to support community based mental health organisation to provide training to their staff and volunteers in food and nutrition.
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Publication category: Policy and planning
Related topics: evaluation, food training, mental health, training and qualifications
Areas of Work: Food and nutrition training, Mental health and wellbeing