This publication highlights examples of volunteering in community food and health work and demonstrates the value of volunteering for the volunteers and the community food initiatives.
Community Food and Health (Scotland)
The Vital Ingredient
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Business and project development
Related topics: case studies, volunteers
Not only … but also
Following on from last year’s popular study looking at the impact of community food initiatives on national outcomes, the experience of a number of local projects in the design and delivery of local outcomes has been compiled on behalf of CFHS by the Scottish Community Development Centre. This publication illustrates and analyses community engagement with …
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Policy and planning
Related topics: case studies, community engagement, local, outcomes
Area of Work: Research and evaluation
Adding to the mix
This publication includes the experiences of ten community food initiatives. It looks at how and why they are working in partnership with the private sector, explores the benefits that working in this way can bring, and discusses the challenges that they have encountered.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication categories: Business and project development, Retailing and catering
Related topics: case studies, partnership, private sector
Area of Work: Community cafes and retailing
Evaluation of community-based mental health organisations training in food, nutrition and health funding 2010
Findings from the evaluation of funding CFHS made available to support community based mental health organisation to provide training to their staff and volunteers in food and nutrition.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Policy and planning
Related topics: evaluation, food training, mental health, training and qualifications
Areas of Work: Food and nutrition training, Mental health and wellbeing
Fare Choice Issue 59
Health up in smoke; community kitchens; community food initiatives working in partnership; food waste resources; readership survey
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Newsletters
Area of Work: Information provision
Strengthening food work across minority ethnic communities
The January networking meeting reviewed the recent CFHS funded learning opportunities and looked at priorities for support in 2012 – 2013.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Conferences and networking
Related topics: conference, minority ethnic
Areas of Work: Minority ethnic communities, Networking and learning development
Evaluation – CFHS ‘summer promotion’ funding for community food retailers, 2011
This report summarises feedback from organisations awarded funding from CFHS through a funding scheme run in summer 2011.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication categories: Business and project development, Retailing and catering
Related topics: evaluation, grants
Areas of Work: Community cafes and retailing, Funding, Research and evaluation
Fare Choice Issue 58
Challenges facing community food initiatives: community cookbooks; Early Years Food and Health project.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: baby feeding, early years, economic crisis, obesity and overweight, pregnancy and maternal health, recipes
Area of Work: Information provision
Strengthening food work across minority ethnic communities
Notes from a meeting held in Edinburgh to look at what is needed to further support food work across minority ethnic communities in Scotland.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Policy and planning
Related topics: funding, minority ethnic, networking, pilot, practice, training and qualifications, volunteers
Areas of Work: Minority ethnic communities, Networking and learning development
What’s Cooking in Scotland? Part One
This publication is based on the experiences of community groups and agencies throughout Scotland and shows how they have addressed some of the issues that groups have concerns about when planning to set up and deliver cookery sessions.