Notes from a round table discussion to explore the issues around taking a more business-like approach when developing or setting up community shops or community food initiatives.
Retailing and catering
Discussion on Community Retailing
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication categories: Business and project development, Retailing and catering
Related topics: business, co-operative, community retailing, food co-op, Islands, remote, rural, social enterprise
Areas of Work: Community cafes and retailing, 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
Breakfast Daze
Report of the Scottish Community Diet Project’s seminar on breakfast clubs held on 4 August 1999 in Glasgow.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication categories: Children and young people, Retailing and catering
Related topics: affordability, breakfast clubs, children, choice, diet and nutrition, funding, health and safety, schools
Areas of Work: Community cafes and retailing, Families with children, Networking and learning development
Promoting healthy eating choices in community café
Highlights the work of an intervention instigated by Greater Glasgow NHS Board, Scottish Community Diet Project and Scottish Healthy Choices Award Scheme which aimed to increase healthy eating choices in 13 community cafes in Glasgow
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Retailing and catering
Related topics: access, affordability, choice, community cafes, diet and nutrition, food hygiene, health and safety, health promotion
Area of Work: Community cafes and retailing
Glasgow Community Cafe Development Intervention
Evaluation of the Glasgow Community Cafe Development Intervention conducted in 13 community cafes in Glasgow that participated in a pilot project instigated by Greater Glasgow NHS Board, Scottish Community Diet Project and Scottish Health Choices Award Scheme
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Retailing and catering
Related topics: catering, community cafes, food hygiene, food preparation, health promotion, research, training and qualifications, volunteers
Areas of Work: Community cafes and retailing, Research and evaluation
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
Developing effective community catering skills
A roundtable discussion on effective community catering skills conducted by those involved directly or indirectly in community catering to exchange experience, skills and good practice and highlight barriers and gaps to be tackled.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication categories: Business and project development, Retailing and catering
Related topics: breakfast clubs, catering, community cafes, food hygiene, food training, lunch clubs, meals on wheels, tuck shops
Area of Work: Community cafes and retailing
Oakley Fruit and Vegetable Co-op
Guide to running a fruit and vegetable co-op containing information and guidelines to help avoid some of the difficulties faced when setting up a fruit and vegetable stall.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication categories: Business and project development, Retailing and catering
Related topics: co-operative, Fife, food co-op, fruit and vegetables
Area of Work: Community cafes and retailing
Scottish Executive’s work with the Scottish Grocers Federation on neighbourhood shops
Notes from a roundtable discussion 17 November 2006.