February 2015 edition of our regular newsletter, featuring updates from the CFHS team, food and health policy news and practice, and features from the community food and health sector.
Information provision
Fare Choice Issue 68
Publishers: Community Food and Health (Scotland), NHS Health Scotland
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: access, affordability, community cafes, community food activity, conference, cookery sessions, older people, policy
Area of Work: Information provision
Fare Choice readership survey
Issue 67 of Fare Choice is now available to download from the Publications Library. Included with this edition is a readership survey on Fare Choice that we would be grateful if you could complete and return to us to inform our planning for the future. The survey can be accessed here:
Posted in CFHS updates, News
Area of Work: Information provision
Fare Choice 67
The October 2014 edition of Fare Choice also includes a readership survey which can also be completed online. http://surveys.healthscotland.com/index.php/298861/lang-en
Publishers: Community Food and Health (Scotland), NHS Health Scotland
Publication category: Newsletters
Area of Work: Information provision
Eat Better Feel Better
The Scottish Government’s Eat Better Feel Better campaign is due to launch in January 2015 to inspire and support parents and families to make healthy changes to how they shop, cook and eat, with the aim of improving their health. The Eat Better Feel Better team will introduce the campaign at the CFHS annual networking …
Posted in News, Policy news, Publications news, Websites
Area of Work: Information provision
Fare Choice Issue 66
Scottish Older People’s Taskforce; REHIS Elementary Food and Health course; foodwork in working families; exploring how community food initiatives are responding to the need for emergency food aid. This issue also includes an insert launching our annual development fund and outlining what last year’s recipients of the fund have been up to.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: community food activity, community retailing, cookery sessions, food poverty, policy
Area of Work: Information provision
Fare Choice Issue 65
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Newsletters
Area of Work: Information provision
CFHS commission Cyrenians Good Food to adapt Good Food Handbook
We have recently commissioned the Cyrenians Good Food programme to adapt a selection of its Good Food Handbook recipes to support the availability of pictorial recipes. These will be available on the Cyrenians Good Food website later in 2013. The current Good Food handbook is available at http://cyrenians.scot/community-and-food/good-food/food-ed/
Posted in CFHS updates
Areas of Work: Information provision, Learning disability
Plans for accessible food and health resources on our website
We are currently making plans to develop part of our website to provide information about, and links to, quality accessible food and health resources or pictorial recipes. These will be suitable for those planning to run cooking skills activities with adults with learning disabilities, but might also be useful with other groups.
Posted in CFHS updates
Areas of Work: Information provision, Learning disability
Fare Choice Issue 64
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Newsletters
Area of Work: Information provision
Fare Choice Issue 69
June 2015 edition of our regular newsletter, featuring updates from the CFHS team, food and health policy news and practice, and features from the community food and health sector.