Simone Janse van Rensburg tells us what she has learned from delivering their first few online courses – for parents with young children and two different weight management groups. About the courses Simone and her colleague, a cook tutor too, created some home-made videos of recipes they knew people enjoyed at face-to-face sessions and found …
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How have Healthy Valleys created a sense of community during online cooking courses?
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New report from the Food Standards Agency
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has produced ‘Food in a pandemic’ – a new UK-wide research report on food insecurity, diet and eating habits, and food supply. It also explores our food psychology, and finds that most of us have positive views about food, although this varies by age and income. The report is available on …
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New report from the British Red Cross
The British Red Cross ‘longest year’ report includes recommendations for governments and local authorities across the UK on mitigating the effects of lockdown restrictions. The recommendations cover resources to support mental wellbeing, financial security and addressing barriers to accessing support. The report is available on the Red Cross website.
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CFHS blog – online cooking skills courses: tips and ideas from REHIS
Since March last year, The Royal Environmental Health Institute of Scotland (REHIS) has allowed REHIS course presenters to deliver the REHIS Elementary Cooking Skills course virtually, using platforms such as Microsoft Teams or Zoom. Adapting training to a virtual platform is not without its challenges, so REHIS recently developed some additional guidance for its course …
Adapting community cooking programmes for online delivery
Kirstin Wilson, a student at Abertay University, has developed this survey as part of her dissertation, to find out the views of participants attending online cooking courses. Kirstin is looking for help from community organisations running online cooking to encourage course participants to complete this survey. The survey takes the form of an anonymous online …
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Understanding food insecurity
Researchers based at the Rowett Institute in Aberdeen are aiming to better understand how organisations that have tackled food insecurity among families with children during school holidays coped during COVID-19 lockdowns. The researchers are keen to follow up issues raised in an earlier survey by undertaking in-depth interviews with staff, managers and volunteers from local …
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Community food initiatives and the Covid-19 response
2020 has certainly been a challenging year for us all and community food initiatives have stepped up to respond to the needs of their communities. Over the last year we have shared learning from CFIs and many others. As we approach Christmas and the new year CFis continue to make plans to support local communities …
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Free charity fundraising webinars
The Directory of Social Change and Ecclesiastical are hosting a series of webinars providing expert views into the opportunities and challenges in the current fundraising environment. More information on the SCVO Funding Scotland website.
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Webinar on supporting communities to re-start safely
UPDATE 21 MAY 2021 A recording of this webinar is now available on YouTube. With news that Scotland is expected to return to a system of local protection levels from 17th May, many volunteer, community and third sector organisations will be planning how and when to re-start their services. Doing this safely and in line …