In 2012, Community Food and Health (Scotland) provided funding totalling £15,000 for six community food initiatives to build on their current work with one or more of the Scottish Government food and health programmes. This factsheet provides an overview of the work undertaken by the initiatives.
Topic: community food activity
The contribution of community food initiatives to national food and health programmes
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Business and project development
Related topics: community food activity, evaluation, funding, grants
Areas of Work: Community cafes and retailing, Cookery skills, Food and nutrition training, Food poverty and access, Funding
Evaluation of CHANGES Eat Well – Keep Well programme
In 2012-13 CFHS supported CHANGES Community Health Project to carry out a stage one evaluation of its Eat Well- Keep Active programme, as part of its work on the impact of food work on mental health and wellbeing. The evaluation was carried out by SCPHRP (Scottish Collaboration for Public Health Research and Policy) and concludes that, …
Publisher: Scottish Collaboration for Public Health Research and Policy
Publication category: Business and project development
Related topics: community food activity, evaluation, mental health, training and qualifications
Area of Work: Mental health and wellbeing
All on one plate
Community Food and Health (Scotland) hosted a free national networking conference in October 2013. The event was for people keen to share experience, evidence, hopes and concerns on all aspects of food, inequality and social justice. The report gives background information about the conference, conference content and the results from an online evaluation survey.
Publishers: Community Food and Health (Scotland), NHS Health Scotland
Publication category: Conferences and networking
Related topics: community food activity, conference, evaluation, food poverty, networking
Area of Work: Networking and learning development
Evaluation of the impact of the Scottish Grocers Federation Healthy Living Programme on community retailers
This research looks at the impact of the Scottish Grocers Healthy Living Programme’s training and resources on community retailers selling fruit and vegetables. The research highlights the benefits of both the training and resources, but also their limitations. It also makes some recommendations about how else the programme could support community retailers.
Publishers: Commissioned by CFHS, Traci Leven Research
Publication categories: Business and project development, Retailing and catering
Related topics: community food activity, community retailing, evaluation, training and qualifications
Areas of Work: Community cafes and retailing, Research and evaluation
Impact of ‘winter promotion’ funding, 2013
CFHS fact sheet that summarises the feedback obtained from community food retailers funded by CFHS to run promotional activities in winter 2013.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Related topics: community food activity, community retailing, food co-op, funding
Areas of Work: Community cafes and retailing, Funding
Building blocks and baby steps
This report reflects a short programme of work to investigate the impact and influence of community food intiatives in relation to maternal and infant nutrition.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication categories: Children and young people, Policy and planning
Related topics: baby feeding, case studies, children, community food activity, diet and nutrition, early years, policy, women and mothers
Area of Work: Families with children
Far reaching fare
This publication looks at the role that community initiatives can play in building reach into policy and practice around food access.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Policy and planning
Related topics: case studies, community food activity, inclusion, inequalities, policy
Area of Work: Food poverty and access
Fare Choice Issue 62
NHS Health Scotland; sustainability; food as an action focus; inequalities; food poverty
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: community food activity, food poverty, inequalities, policy, sustainability
Area of Work: Information provision
Fare Choice Issue 66
Scottish Older People’s Taskforce; REHIS Elementary Food and Health course; foodwork in working families; exploring how community food initiatives are responding to the need for emergency food aid. This issue also includes an insert launching our annual development fund and outlining what last year’s recipients of the fund have been up to.