Following our recent seminar, “Food poverty: Measuring, monitoring and making a difference”, organised jointly with the Rowett Institute, the key speaker Prof Valerie Tarasuk, from the University of Toronto, has kindly given permission to make her fascinating presentation available for download.
Author archives: Alice Baird
Food poverty: Measuring, monitoring and making a difference
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Area of Work: Food poverty and access
Next community cafe learning visit
Booking is now open for places on CFHS’s latest community café learning visit on Friday 18 March. Running from 12 – 2.30 p.m., it includes visit to two cafes: CentrePoint Cafe in Gowkthrapple and NCT Centre in Newmains, both in North Lanarkshire. Places are available for anyone involved in setting up, running, managing or supporting …
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Area of Work: Community cafes and retailing
Eat Better Feel Better campaign update
The next phase of the Eat Better Feel Better (EBFB) campaign launched on 15 January, with more resources, roadshows and TV advertising taking place in the next few months. More information about what is happening near you is available in this stakeholder’s update as well as the EBFB website.
Posted in Misc food and health, News
CFHS cooking skills study group
We are currently running an 18-month long cooking skills study group for eight organisations – NHS, local authority and community initiatives from across Scotland who are supporting people who are vulnerable or from low-income communities. The organisations are Fife Health and Social Care Partnership, NHS Grampian, Edinburgh Community Food, Healthy Valleys, Lanarkshire Community Food and …
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Area of Work: Cookery skills
Food and health in learning disability services roundtable meeting
CFHS held a small roundtable discussion late last year. The meeting: ‘Embedding food and health activities and policies across learning disability services – what are the barriers and successes?’ was attended by members of 12 organisations involved with supporting people with learning disabilities around food and health. The group carried out a mapping exercise and …
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Area of Work: Learning disability
Community cafe learning visit
CFHS’s next community café learning visit is on Tuesday 9 February, 11 am to 2.30 pm, to Wellmeadow Café in Blairgowrie and the Walled Garden Café in Perth. Places are available to anyone involved in running or setting up a community café. Transport will be provided from Blairgowrie to Perth and back, if required and …
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Area of Work: Community cafes and retailing
BBC Food and Farming Awards
BBC Radio 4’s The Food Programme will open nominations for the BBC Food and Farming Awards on Sunday 10 January 2016, calling on people in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland to nominate their favourite producers, workplace cooks, local markets and food heroes. The panel will be looking for winners in a range of categories, …
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New report from Food Standards Scotland
A very informative and accessible ‘situation report’ on the Scottish diet was launched today by Food Standards Scotland. “The Scottish Diet: It needs to change” uses infographics to highlight the nature and scale of the challenge. The colourful 27 page report can be downloaded from www.foodstandards.gov.scot/publications-and-research/the-scottish-diet-it-needs-to-change
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Big Lottery announce £250m community-led grants
Big Lottery have announced a new set of funding which will see £250m available for organisations in Scotland over the next five years. The funding will be focused on communities and organisations which demonstrate community-led approaches, highlighting how their work is people-led, strengths-based and/or connected. Over the next five years Big Lottery will make grants from …
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Cooking skills blog 2: research on involving children and their parents in cooking
Last November, my CFHS colleague, Jacqui McDowell, attended the COOK and Health Scientific Symposium held at the Basque Culinary Center in San Sebastian. This shared up-to-date academic knowledge on the relationships between cooking, eating behaviours and health. In this fortnight’s blog, I’ll highlight one piece of the research presented which focused on involving children and …