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.
Community Food and Health (Scotland)
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
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
Study tour to London
The study tour took place between 1 and 3 October 2013. Ten people took part in a busy two days, which included 10 different visits/meetings across London. The report provides an overview of the tour and the organisations we visited.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Policy and planning
Related topics: access, affordability, food poverty, older people, study tours and exchanges
Areas of Work: Food poverty and access, Networking and learning development, Older people
Fare Choice Issue 65
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Newsletters
Area of Work: Information provision
Fare Choice Issue 64
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Newsletters
Area of Work: Information provision
Local food micro funding
CFHS fact sheet that summarises the feedback obtained from six community food initiatives funded by CFHS to buy and sell or use more locally-grown fruit and vegetables.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Retailing and catering
Areas of Work: Community cafes and retailing, Funding
Fare Choice Issue 61
co-operatives; emergency food provision; evaluation; community cafes
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Newsletters
Area of Work: Information provision
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
Fare Choice Issue 63
A fairer healthier Scotland; annual development fund launch; emergency food provision; 2012 fund recipients; Healthy Start vitamins
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Newsletters
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.