Special edition launching the 2011 small grants scheme and featuring a selection of the work undertaken by the previous year’s grant recipients
Publications
Fare Choice special grants edition 2011
(June 2011)
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: funding, grants
Area of Work: Information provision
Healthy Eating Healthy Living
A report on the Healthy Eating Healthy Living project for adults with learning disabilities in 6 Scottish pilot sites
(June 2011)
This Scottish Government funded Healthy Eating, Healthy Living Project developed a multi-media educational pack consisting of 26 sessions on healthy eating for adults with learning disabilities. This included five practical cookery sessions. A small team supported six pilot sites in Greater Glasgow and Tayside to deliver the pack and this report describes how the programme …
Publication categories: Business and project development, Cooking and growing
Related topics: cookery sessions, learning disabilities
Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Learning disability
Food services for older people
(June 2011)
This study was commissioned by Consumer Focus Scotland/CFHS to provide baseline information about the range and extent of food services for older people living in the community in Scotland. The research explored consumers’ views on these services and sought to address gaps in provision.
Publication categories: Policy and planning, Retailing and catering
Related topics: access, delivery, lunch clubs, older people, research, surveys
Areas of Work: Community cafes and retailing, Older people, Research and evaluation
Fare Choice Issue 56
healthy, fresh and local
(June 2011)
healthyliving award; small grants scheme; food and health activity with older people; volunteering and community food and health initiatives
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: grants, older people, volunteers
Area of Work: Information provision
Orchards and Grow Your Own Census Scotland
(June 2011)
The Commonwealth Orchard has launched its report of a census of community orchards and grow your own projects carried out March 2011. The census includes comments from a range of growing projects from across Scotland.
Publication category: Cooking and growing
Related topics: children, growing and gardening
A bite and a blether
(June 2011)
Brings together material from six lunch clubs in different parts of the country most of which are run by older people for older people.
Publication category: Retailing and catering
Related topics: case studies, food preparation, lunch clubs, older people, volunteers
Area of Work: Older people
What is the impact of the CFHS small grants scheme?
(May 2011)
Demonstrates the reach and impact of the scheme over a three year period.
Publication category: Business and project development
Areas of Work: Funding, Research and evaluation
CFHS learning and development programme evaluation
(June 2011)
Looks at what impact this programme had on groups taking part.
Publication category: Business and project development
Areas of Work: Networking and learning development, Research and evaluation
Flying off the shelves
a guide for community food retailers to help them sell more fruit and vegetables
(September 2011)
This guide included ideas and suggestions about the right location for a stall, making the most of the produce being sold, encouraging sales and promoting a stall.
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Publication category: Retailing and catering
Related topics: community retailing, fruit and vegetables, sales and marketing
Area of Work: Community cafes and retailing