February 2015 edition of our regular newsletter, featuring updates from the CFHS team, food and health policy news and practice, and features from the community food and health sector.
Topic: community food activity
Fare Choice Issue 68
Publishers: Community Food and Health (Scotland), NHS Health Scotland
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: access, affordability, community cafes, community food activity, conference, cookery sessions, older people, policy
Area of Work: Information provision
Second helpings
Following on from the Mind the Menu event in 2012, Second Helpings offered a further opportunity for organisations working in the field to network and share their practice.
Publishers: Community Food and Health (Scotland), NHS Health Scotland
Publication category: Conferences and networking
Related topics: community food activity, conference, evaluation, mental health, networking
Areas of Work: Mental health and wellbeing, Networking and learning development
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 …
Publishers: Community Food and Health (Scotland), NHS Health Scotland
Publication categories: Conferences and networking, Retailing and catering
Related topics: community cafes, community food activity, healthy eating, networking
Areas of Work: Community cafes and retailing, Networking and learning development
Older people eat well: literature review
In early 2014, CFHS worked with Evaluation Support Scotland to commission a short evidence review of the literature on the ways in which the third sector supports older people to eat well. This has now been published as part of the ESS ‘Stitch in Time’ programme. The starting point for the review was the nested …
Publishers: Commissioned by CFHS, Evaluation Support Scotland
Publication category: Policy and planning
Related topics: community food activity, diet and nutrition, evaluation, older people, research
Areas of Work: Older people, Research and evaluation
Maternal and infant nutrition framework: supporting a Healthy Start
This report provides an overview of an event called ‘Maternal and infant nutrition framework: supporting a Healthy Start’. This event took place in May 2014 and included learning from previous and ongoing work around Healthy Start programmes in the Forth Valley area that were supported by Community Food and Health (Scotland).
Publishers: Community Food and Health (Scotland), NHS Health Scotland
Publication categories: Children and young people, Conferences and networking
Related topics: children, community food activity, conference, diet and nutrition, early years
Areas of Work: Families with children, Networking and learning development
The new REHIS Elementary Cooking Skills Course
In 2013 the Royal Environmental Health Institute of Scotland (REHIS) developed a new short accredited cooking course. CFHS supported the availability of this course by providing funding to 13 groups and agencies to register with REHIS and deliver the course in low-income communities. This report provides a summary of the views of trainers and describes …
Publishers: Community Food and Health (Scotland), NHS Health Scotland
Publication category: Cooking and growing
Related topics: community food activity, cookery sessions, funding, low income, training and qualifications
Area of Work: Cookery skills
The contribution of community food initiatives to national food and health programmes (2013)
This CFHS fact sheet provides an overview of the work undertaken by initiatives funded by CFHS in 2013 to build on their current work with one or more of the Scottish Government food and health programmes.
Publishers: Community Food and Health (Scotland), NHS Health Scotland
Publication category: Business and project development
Related topics: community food activity, evaluation, funding, grants
Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Funding
Learning and development programme 2013: feedback from participants
This CFHS fact sheet examines the feedback from the evaluations of participants on the 2013/2014 learning and development programme.
Publishers: Community Food and Health (Scotland), NHS Health Scotland
Publication categories: Business and project development, Professional development
Related topics: community food activity, evaluation, training and qualifications
Areas of Work: Food and nutrition training, Networking and learning development
A review of practical cooking skills activities which focus on promoting an affordable healthy balanced diet for adults, young people and their families within low-income communities in Scotland
In 2014 Community Food and Health Scotland/NHS Health Scotland commissioned a realist review of community cooking skills activities run by community initiatives and agencies. The review planned to explore issues such as how the social circumstances of participants and the approach of the cooking skills activities can affect the outcomes. The researchers analysed 81 sets …