Central and West Integration Network were supported by CFHS/NHS Health Scotland last year to lead a community-led research project. The research explored the experiences of ethnic minority communities around food security, diet and obesity. Specifically, the …
Minority ethnic communities
Food security, diet and obesity – community-led research
Posted in CFHS updates, News, Research and consultations
Areas of Work: Minority ethnic communities, Research and evaluation
Healthy diet and lifestyle for ethnic minority older people
The Older People Services Development project produced this healthy eating resource, with support from NHS Health Scotland, in response to an extensive consultation that shows ethnic minority older people can …
Publisher: Equality Scotland
Publication category: Cooking and growing
Related topics: access, diet and nutrition, healthy eating, inclusion, older people
Areas of Work: Minority ethnic communities, Older people
Development funding for work on maternal and infant nutrition across minority ethnic communities in Scotland
CFHS made a small amount of development funding available to support the development of good practice examples of work on maternal and infant nutrition across minority ethnic communities in Scotland …
Posted in CFHS updates
Area of Work: Minority ethnic communities
Development funding for work on maternal and infant nutrition across minority ethnic communities in Scotland
CFHS has a small amount of development funding available to support the development of good practice examples of work on maternal and infant nutrition across minority ethnic communities in Scotland. …
Posted in CFHS updates
Areas of Work: Families with children, Funding, Minority ethnic communities
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 …
Posted in CFHS updates
Areas of Work: Food and nutrition training, Minority ethnic communities, Networking and learning development
Networking meeting for organisations working to strengthen food work across minority ethnic communities
CFHS held a national networking meeting for organisations working to strengthen food work across minority ethnic communities on Friday 15 March in Glasgow. Tanveer Parnez and Emilia Petka from BEMIS …
Posted in CFHS updates
Areas of Work: Minority ethnic communities, Networking and learning development
Maternal and infant nutrition across ME communities in Scotland
CFHS worked in partnership with BEMIS to look at the specific needs of community and voluntary sector organisations supporting work on maternal and infant nutrition across minority ethnic communities in …
Posted in CFHS updates
Areas of Work: Families with children, Minority ethnic communities
Strengthening food work across ethnic minority communities: a focus on maternal and infant nutrition
This mapping exercise was carried out to provide a snapshot of voluntary and community organisations’ activity in relation to maternal and infant nutrition across ethnic minority communities in Scotland.
Publishers: BEMIS Scotland, Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication categories: Children and young people, Policy and planning
Related topics: baby feeding, children, diet and nutrition, mapping exercise, minority ethnic, parents and carers, women and mothers
Areas of Work: Families with children, Minority ethnic communities
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 …
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
Food security, diet and obesity – a community-led research project exploring the experiences of ethnic minority groups
This community-led research approach builds on a previous CWIN project exploring food security in black and ethnic minority (BME) people in Glasgow. They recruited and trained a team of 12 …