Places are still available for this three day course to be held in Glasgow from 20-22 January 2014. Applications should be returned to CFHS by 13 December 2014. More information and an application form are available in the Current Work section.
Food and nutrition training
RSPH Level 3 Award in Nutrition for Healthier Food and Special Diets
Posted in CFHS updates, News, Training
Area of Work: Food and nutrition training
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
Capacity building training
Following on from discussion at the meetings in 2011, CFHS funded learning opportunities for staff and volunteers involved in community food work with minority ethnic communities in Scotland. In autumn 2011, CFHS funded two Elementary Food and Health courses. One course was provided by Edinburgh Community Food and ran at Norton Park Conference Centre in …
Posted in CFHS updates
Areas of Work: Food and nutrition training, Minority ethnic communities, Networking and learning development
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
Community-based organisations working with minority ethnic children, pregnant women and families – training in food, nutrition and health
Access to a balanced, healthy diet is important in the early years of life. Improving maternal and infant nutrition is a key priority in Scotland and there is evidence that more food and health work needs to be delivered within minority ethnic communities. Experience from community groups already suggests that food and health work with …
Posted in CFHS updates
Areas of Work: Families with children, Food and nutrition training, Minority ethnic communities
Promoting consistent nutrition messages
Promoting accurate and consistent information about healthy eating is fundamental to the work of community food initiatives. CFHS has provided a range of opportunities over recent years to support groups to build their confidence to promote messages about healthy eating. This support has mainly involved providing courses on the CFHS learning and development programme for …
Posted in CFHS updates
Area of Work: Food and nutrition training
How to get beyond smoothies
This booklet features tips and ideas gathered from a CFHS youth, food and health networking event that focused on work with a range of young people.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication categories: Children and young people, Cooking and growing
Related topics: cookery sessions, cooking, growing and gardening, healthy eating, tuck shops, young people
Area of Work: Food and nutrition training
Beyond Smoothies
This short report shows what 20 groups and agencies learnt and gained from running practical healthy eating activities and taking part in the REHIS Elementary Food and Health course
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication categories: Children and young people, Cooking and growing
Related topics: case studies, food training, young people
Area of Work: Food and nutrition training
The contribution of community food initiatives to national food and health programmes
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.