UPDATE: 17 April 2020. The Food Standards Agency recently produced guidance for Covid-19 guidance for food businesses and their employees. The UK government has also provided comprehensive advice for food businesses. NHS Forth Valley have produced a useful video on providing shopping to people in your community safely. For the most up to date health …
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COVID-19: General public health advice, resources and food safety
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CFHS e-bulletin: 19 March 2020
Please follow the link to our newest e-bulletin here.
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Fare Choice 81
Please see the publications library for the March edition of Fare Choice.
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E-bulletin : 20 February 2020
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“Community anchor” – big or small? What’s in this term for community food initiatives to think about?
“Community anchor” has become a bit of a cool term, to describe the stature and relevance of organisations within a community to funders and policy makers. Alongside “anchor organisation” and “anchor institution” (see box insert) this jargon is doing the rounds, and though the language is not new[1], I wonder if we all mean the …
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FareChoice Issue 80
Issue 80 of our newsletter, Fare Choice, is now available to download from the publications library.
Posted in CFHS updates, News
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Fare Choice Issue 79
February 2019 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.
Publishers: Community Food and Health (Scotland), NHS Health Scotland
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: community cafes, community food activity, cooking, food poverty, funding, older people, policy
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Reasons to be cheerful part 2 – CFHS cooking skills research. What did we learn about the best ways to run a cooking skills course?
Our cooking skills study group realist evaluation (2016-2018), gathered information from 29 community cooking skills courses (attended by 75 adults -all of whom were managing on low-incomes and the majority were ‘vulnerable’*). The results showed that: 79% improved their cooking skills (a further 16% could already cook) 68% made steps to improve their diet As …
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Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Information provision, Research and evaluation
Fare Choice Issue 78
August 2018 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.
Publishers: Community Food and Health (Scotland), NHS Health Scotland
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: community cafes, community food activity, conference, cookery sessions, food poverty, funding, policy
Area of Work: Information provision
COVID-19: Guidance for community food organisations
The Scottish Government Food Insecurity Team have provided guidance for community food initiatives (CFIs), which covers information on: How CFIs can help: the Scottish Welfare Fund and use of vouchers; staff, volunteer and service user safety; food supply; maintaining dignity whilst providing food aid; food safety; and details about how to contact this Scottish Government …