Community Food and Health (Scotland) or CFHS aims to ensure that everyone in Scotland has the opportunity, ability and confidence to access a healthy and acceptable diet for themselves, their families and their communities. We do this by supporting work with and within low-income communities that addresses health inequalities and barriers (availability, affordability, skills and culture) to healthy and affordable food.
Through our work we aim to support communities to identify these barriers; develop local responses to addressing the barriers; and highlight where actions at other levels, or in other sectors, are required.
We value the experience, understanding, skills and knowledge within Scotland’s community food initiatives and their unique contribution to developing and delivering policy and practice at all levels.
CFHS updates
Our latest bulletin has news about the evidence and impact of community food work and Good Food Nation, as well as information about forthcoming events, funding opportunities and reports for the community food sector. You can read the e-bulletin here.
In September we, along with CHEX and Common Health Assets, will join the Living Good Food Nation Lab Grassroots and Community Forum. In the Lab’s September forum: We will speak about our scoping review on what evidence there is, or what we need, in terms of the community food sector. Community Health Exchange (CHEX) will speak about …
We are currently reviewing published evidence from international and UK-based studies, alongside local reports and other grey literature. Our aim is to better understand how a diverse range of community food activities contribute to a variety of outcomes, including health and wellbeing, social connectedness, and food security. The findings will be used to develop key …
Our latest bulletin has news about two new recent blog posts on prevention and the community food sector, as well as information about forthcoming events, funding opportunities and reports for the community food sector. You can read the e-bulletin here.
In the last blog we explained what prevention means for public health and for the community food sector. In this blog post we explain how it can be evaluated. Earlier this year, Evaluation Support Scotland (ESS) delivered a workshop for the community food sector on evaluating prevention. One of the key messages was that although …
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