Author archives: Alice Baird

Emergency food aid: understand and act

Posted: March 11, 2016

Organisations across Scotland providing advice and support to people who may use emergency food aid, community food and health projects and statutory bodies with an interest in the issue are being asked to complete a survey being undertaken by the Poverty Alliance, on behalf of partners, all of whom are interested in better understanding the …

Cooking skills blog 4: Do you tailor (or target) your cooking skills courses to suit individual needs?

Posted: March 11, 2016

Our cooking skills study group has already met and agreed a list of outcomes that each of them will evaluate when they run their courses over the next six months. However, all members of the group run their cooking skills courses differently to each other, and they run each of their courses differently. They will …

Posted in CFHS Blog, CFHS updates, Ideas about developing and running cooking skills courses | Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Information provision |

Plenty: Food, farming and health in a new Scotland

Posted: March 7, 2016

New report from the Scottish Food Coalition launches today http://is.gd/pggfBy

Posted in News, Publications news |

Scottish Food Commission interim report now available

Posted: February 29, 2016

The report can be downloaded from the Scottish Government website. https://www2.gov.scot/Resource/0049/00494779.pdf

Posted in News, Publications news |

Cooking skills blog 3: research on involving children in cooking

Posted: February 26, 2016

In this fortnight’s blog, I’ll look at two presentations from the COOK and Health Scientific Symposium held at the Basque Culinary Center in San Sebastian that my colleague Jacqui attended last November. Both suggested that involving children in hands-on cooking programmes can have a positive impact on their diet (at least in the short-term) and …

Posted in CFHS Blog, CFHS updates, Cooking skills research | Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Families with children, Information provision |

Children’s Health Fund

Posted: February 19, 2016

The Children’s Health Fund is offering funding of grants between £500 to £5000 for projects that have innovative ideas that will promote or provide access to drinking water in public places where children and young people gather to learn and play. www.childrenshealthfund.org.uk

Posted in Funding news, News |

The conversation with the people of Scotland

Posted: February 12, 2016

The conversation with the people of Scotland was an opportunity for Health Scotland to facilitate public engagement opportunities within a community setting. An opportunity for Health Scotland to capture opinion about a community people live, work and volunteer within, and a chance for the organisation to talk about a fairer, healthier Scotland with people in …

Posted in CFHS updates | Area of Work: Networking and learning development |

Cooking skills blog 2: research on involving children and their parents in cooking

Posted: February 12, 2016

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 …

Posted in CFHS Blog, CFHS updates, Cooking skills research | Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Families with children, Information provision |

Food poverty: Measuring, monitoring and making a difference

Posted: February 10, 2016

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.

Posted in CFHS updates, Events and conferences, News | Area of Work: Food poverty and access |

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