CFHS has recently provided funding for 13 groups and agencies to run the new, nationally accredited cooking skills course (accredited by the Royal Environmental Health Insitute of Scotland or REHIS). Successful applicants plan to run this new course with a range of peole from within low-income communities in Scotland, including with community and lunch club volunteers, carers of …
Cookery skills
Investing in the availability of the new REHIS Elementary Cooking Skills course
Posted in CFHS updates
Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Funding
Research around cooking skills
We are currently working with our colleagues in NHS Health Scotland to gather evidence around the impact of community cooking courses. For more information about our current cookery work, contact Kim.
Posted in CFHS updates
Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Research and evaluation
The impact of cooking courses on families
This short report provides a summary of research commissioned by CFHS that studied the impact of cooking skills on families.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication categories: Cooking and growing, Policy and planning
Related topics: cookery sessions, families, parents and carers, training and qualifications, young people
Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Families with children, Research and evaluation
Cooking up connections
This publication gives a flavour of what community food initiatives and disability learning support providers are doing to offer adults with learning disabilities access to food and health activities in order to improve their health and wellbeing.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication categories: Cooking and growing, Policy and planning
Related topics: case studies, community food activity, diet and nutrition, inclusion, learning disabilities, training and qualifications
Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Food and nutrition training, Learning disability
What’s Cooking in Scotland? Part Two
This publication gathers information from policies, research, and community food initiatives in Scotland to find out what difference community cookery makes to people in low-income communities.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Cooking and growing
Related topics: case studies, cookery sessions
Area of Work: Cookery skills
Chat and Chaat
This resource is a healthy eating manual of South Asian recipes from groups based in and around Edinburgh. Developed in cookery and nutrition workshops, held as part of the NHS Lothian Khush Dil Project between 2002 and 2008, the recipes are a mixture of traditional dishes and new creations that groups have worked to make healthier …
Publishers: Community Food and Health (Scotland), NHS Lothian
Publication category: Cooking and growing
Related topics: cooking, diet and nutrition, multi-cultural, recipes
Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Minority ethnic communities
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.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Cooking and growing
Related topics: case studies, cookery sessions
Area of Work: Cookery skills
Cooking in the Community in 5 Easy Steps
This manual has been developed by Community Food Workers in Fife, and is a reflection of their shared experiences. It is intended to support organisations and their workers, who seek to promote healthy lifestyles within their local community through practical food activities.
Publisher: Fife Community Food Project
Publication category: Cooking and growing
Related topics: community food workers, cookery sessions, food preparation, healthy eating
Area of Work: Cookery skills
Evaluation of Fife Community Kitchen
In November 2011, NHS Fife commissioned Blake Stevenson Ltd to evaluate Fife’s Community Kitchen, located at Adam Smith’s College’s Levenmouth campus. The report, executive summary and appendices are included.
Publishers: Blake Stevenson, Commissioned by CFHS
Publication category: Cooking and growing
Related topics: community food activity, cookery sessions, evaluation, Fife, food preparation, research
Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Research and evaluation
CFHS research project – do you run practical cooking skills activities for adults or young people?
Do you have cooking skills evaluation reports that are gathering dust and too few people to read them? If your answer is yes, please can you help us? 100s of groups and agencies across Scotland run cooking activities for people in low-income communities. But there is very little publically available written evidence about what difference …