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.
Topic: volunteers
The Vital Ingredient
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Business and project development
Keyword: volunteers
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
Community Food Initiatives Retailing in Hospitals and Health Centres
This publication looks at the work of several community food initiatives that are, or have been, running fruit and vegetables in hospitals and other health service premises.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Retailing and catering
Related topics: fruit and vegetables, hospitals, social enterprise, volunteers
Fare Choice Issue 56
healthyliving award; small grants scheme; food and health activity with older people; volunteering and community food and health initiatives
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: grants, older people, volunteers
A bite and a blether
Brings together material from six lunch clubs in different parts of the country most of which are run by older people for older people.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Retailing and catering
Related topics: food preparation, lunch clubs, older people, volunteers
Study tours September 2008
In September 2008 we ran two tours to organisations in Aberdeen and Edinburgh delivering services for people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness and operating as social enterprise.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Conferences and networking
Related topics: cookery sessions, Edinburgh, Grampian, homelessness, partnership, social enterprise, study tours and exchanges, volunteers
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
Fare Choice Issue 36
2006 small grant scheme; Minding Their Own Business publication; SCOFF nutrition research; Question Time; Munch Crunch; Community Food Initiatives North East; Glasgow Children’s Orchard
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: box scheme, business, cooking, Grampian, older people, parliaments, policy, schools, Scottish Diet Action Plan, volunteers
Fare Choice Issue 16
Parliament; Food in Schools conference; Breakfast Clubs… A Head Start toolkit; Diet and Nutrition Survey over 65s; Phoenix Health Project; Valuing Volunteers; Milton Food Project, Glasgow; Food Safety; Information Exchange; Dorothy Dobsons; CoSLA
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: breakfast clubs, diet and nutrition, food hygiene, funding, grants, Inverclyde, older people, parliaments, schools, volunteers
World Cafe Case Study
With funding from CFHS, Community Organisation for Race Equality (CORE) has produced a case study on its World Cafe. It covers the background and history of the World Cafe, the essential elements of the model, the role of volunteers, the development of healthy recipes and how the cafe works to build links between individuals and »