If your organisation provides free or subsidised food to households experiencing, or at risk of experiencing, food insecurity, Urban Roots would love to hear from you. Urban Roots have been asked to carry out this research on behalf of the Scottish Government. The data collected will be used to better support organisations by gathering up …
Food poverty and access
Food mapping research – Urban Roots
Posted in News, Research and consultations
Area of Work: Food poverty and access
Why becoming a Good Food Nation will be good for our health
Lesley McCranor, Executive Manager at Healthy Valleys, talks about the Scotttish Government’s Good Food Nation consultation … In 2017, 65% of adults aged 16 and over were overweight, including 29% who were obese. (NHS Health Scotland Nov 2018). Therefore, it may not be surprising to learn that Scotland has the fifth highest prevalence of obesity …
Posted in CFHS Blog, CFHS updates, News
Areas of Work: Community cafes and retailing, Families with children, Food poverty and access, Information provision
Understanding food insecurity in Scotland: using evidence for policy and practice change
The latest seminar on measuring food insecurity, co-organised with A Menu for Change, took place in Glasgow at the beginning of October. National and international presentations, including a look at the first data from the new food insecurity questions in the Scottish Health Survey, an update on A Menu for Change and a fascinating insight …
Posted in CFHS updates, Events and conferences, News
Areas of Work: Food poverty and access, Networking and learning development
Matter of fact
With the latest Scottish Health Survey results due to include data from the three new food insecurity questions and research work ongoing across the UK, CFHS is delighted to be offering the latest opportunity for researchers, practitioners and policy makers to come together to digest the latest information and explore future opportunities. Working alongside A …
Posted in CFHS updates, Events and conferences, News
Areas of Work: Food poverty and access, Networking and learning development
Guest blog: Sue O’Neill-Berest from Cyrenians on food insecurity, cooking and using CFHS development funding to run sessions for young mums
Something to eat, someone to eat with The Food and Agricultural organisation of the United Nations has suggested that 8.4 million live in food insecure households in the UK. (Taylor, 2016) Some research conducted predominantly out with the UK found no significant positive link between the ability to cook and food security, whilst other studies …
Posted in CFHS Blog, CFHS updates, Recruiting and working with vulnerable groups
Areas of Work: Food poverty and access, Funding, Information provision
1st World Congress on Migration, Ethnicity, Race and Health
Florence Dioka from Central and West Integration Network (CWIN) and our colleague Jacqui presented the poster below at the 1st World Congress on Migration, Ethnicity, Race and Health, on 18 May 2018. It explains how they carried out community-led research into food security and insecurity, plus shares some of the findings. Food security and insecurity-poster You …
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Areas of Work: Food poverty and access, Networking and learning development
Time to Digest
Despite the Arctic conditions and transport systems in chaos, practitioners, policy makers and researchers from across Scotland and beyond met in Glasgow for this latest get together looking at measurement of food poverty and how this understanding can be best applied within policy and practice. Organised by NHS Health Scotland jointly with A Menu for …
Posted in CFHS updates, News
Area of Work: Food poverty and access
New blog post – Pasta with a past: the collective memory and collective consciousness of Scotland’s community food initiatives
A government policy document a few years ago noted that, “Scotland has both a remarkable legacy as well as an admirable current resource in its social enterprises, community and voluntary sector.” Why? No-one likes to reinvent the wheel, be told by another project after hitting a snag that they could have told them where the …
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Areas of Work: Food poverty and access, Information provision
Just getting on with it
Practitioners who run cooking skills courses have told us that they have worked with course participants who may be experiencing food insecurity and were struggling to feed themselves and their families. We wanted to explore this issue further by undertaking a short project to find out: what methods community cooking course practitioners currently use to support those …
Publishers: Community Food and Health (Scotland), NHS Health Scotland
Publication category: Cooking and growing
Related topics: case studies, community food activity, cookery sessions, food poverty, inclusion, low income, research
Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Food poverty and access
In food bank Britain, how can Scotland best run holiday clubs?
“…. And it was the first time he’d ever seen the sea…” This is what I remember from the University’s evaluation of holiday clubs I once ran. I’ve long forgotten the academic’s impressive statistics – her pages of scientific proof of the equitable benefits of those holiday clubs – it is just this anecdote that …