In 2015 CFHS commissioned research to identify the factors that affect the sustainability of community retailers (food co-ops, fruit and vegetable stalls and barras and community shops). The research was completed in Autumn 2016. A summary of the research findings and recommendations will be available late summer/early autumn 2017.
Author archives: Alice Baird
Research – factors affecting the sustainability of community retailing
Posted in CFHS updates, News
Areas of Work: Community cafes and retailing, Research and evaluation
Community cafe learning visits
CFHS is planning more community cafe learning visits this year. The visits give community cafe practitioners opportunities to find out about other community cafes, meet others working in, running or supporting community cafes, and share good practice. Details of the first visit will be available soon. For more information about the visits, contact anne.gibson5@nhs.net
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Area of Work: Community cafes and retailing
Booking now available for CFHS community cafe networking event September 2016
Community Food and Health (Scotland) is holding another community café networking event on Thursday 1 September, in the Pearce Institute in Glasgow from 11 am to 3.30 pm. Anyone working in or with a community café – volunteer, staff member, manager, or board / management committee member – is welcome to apply for a place …
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Area of Work: Community cafes and retailing
SCDC consultation on participation requests
SCDC is inviting community groups and networks, and people who work with communities, to give their views on Participation Requests. The consultation will inform the Scottish Government’s development of regulations and statutory guidance around participation requests. The Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act specifies participation requests as a process for communities to request to work alongside public …
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Cooking skills blog 5: Does your group eat together at the end of a cooking skills session?
How do you decide what to do with the food that has been cooked? Should participants take the food home (to share with others, or eat later) or is it better to eat a meal together (prepared either together or separately) or a mixture of both of these? Does it matter? Your choice might depend …
Posted in CFHS Blog, CFHS updates, Ideas about developing and running cooking skills courses
Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Information provision
Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act – Register your interest for SCDC’s consultation on participation requests
SCDC is inviting anyone from community groups and networks, and people working with communities, to give their views on participation requests. The Scottish Government is consulting on the regulations to accompany Part 3 of the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act, Participation Requests. SCDC will be supporting the formal consultation by running a parallel consultation process on …
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Community cafe networking event, June 2015
What was it? The third Scottish-wide networking event for community café practitioners was held in June 2015. It was planned and run jointly by Community Food and Health (Scotland) or CFHS, Edinburgh Community Food (ECF) and members of Edinburgh Community Café Network (ECCN). The event took place in St Andrew and St George’s Church in …
Posted in CFHS updates, Events and conferences
Area of Work: Community cafes and retailing
Improving food and health for adults with learning disabilities – learning from policy and practice in the community
The meeting will build on the roundtable discussion we had last December (notes from the meeting are available here) and will provide an opportunity to learn from research, policy and practical work and to discuss issues on implementing good practice with speakers and your colleagues. This is a small meeting (up to 30 people) Speakers …
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Area of Work: Learning disability
New Eatwell guide launched
Food Standards Scotland (FSS) today launches the new Eatwell Guide, which replaces the eatwell plate and shows people in Scotland how they can achieve a healthy balanced diet. See more at: www.foodstandards.gov.scot
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Fair Food Transformation Fund
The Scottish Government is inviting applications for the Fair Food Transformation Fund from Monday 27 June 2016 until Monday 18 July 2016. The Fund is part of the £1 million-a-year Fair Food Fund, which supports dignified responses to food poverty. Fund Purpose and Principles The Fair Food Transformation Fund aims to help Scotland become a ‘Good Food …