The CFHS evaluating impact programme is open to community food organisations working in low-income communities who work with older people to eat well, or within communities to address long-term issues of food poverty. The aim of the programme is to increase the amount of evidence on the difference made by community food initiatives (CFIs) in …
Author archives: Alice Baird
Forthcoming community development events
There are still a few places available at ‘Community Development: What vision for Scotland?’ in Glasgow on Wednesday 25 June. The free event has been organised by Community Development Alliance Scotland who are working with the Scottish Community Development Centre and Scottish Community Development Network to encourage a national dialogue around community development in Scotland. …
Posted in Events and conferences, News
CFHS community cafe networking event 26 June 2014, Glasgow
This free CFHS event is open to anyone working in, managing, or supporting a community cafe, and will include opportunities to find out about Edinburgh Community Cafes network and the healthyliving award, and meet other community cafes. For more information contact anne.gibson5@nhs.net
Posted in CFHS updates, Events and conferences, News
Area of Work: Community cafes and retailing
Support for Food Safety Week Initiatives 2014
Food Safety Week is a national food hygiene campaign which this year runs from the 16 June to the 22 June. The campaign offers an excellent opportunity for promotion of food safety at local level and in recognition of this and the excellent response to last year’s initiative, the Food Standards Agency in Scotland wishes …
Posted in Funding news, News
CHEX policy briefing on the integration of health and social care
CHEX has produced a briefing summing up the recently-passed Public Bodies (Joint Working ) (Scotland) Bill and the implications/opportunities for community-led health. At the end of February 2014, the Scottish Parliament passed the Bill, which sets out the legislative framework for integrating health and social care in Scotland. This CHEX briefing is intended to summarise …
Posted in Misc food and health, News, Policy news
New pictorial recipes available
The Edinburgh Cyrenians Good Food Programme has completed a new CFHS-funded, online pictorial recipe book for people who have difficulty reading a standard text-based recipe. It contains 16 recipes, including favourites from its Good Food Handbook, such as chicken curry and rice, and fishcakes, and newer recipes such as frittata and poached pears with chocolate …
Posted in News, Publications news
Area of Work: Learning disability
Human rights based approaches to food poverty
CFHS is recruiting people involved in community food initiatives in Scotland to join an enquiry into human rights based approaches to food poverty. We are looking for a group of people who will: set the agenda for the work engage in positive discussion and debate with others active in the field listen and learn from …
Posted in CFHS updates, News
Area of Work: Food poverty and access
Cut food waste, save money and help the environment
Scotland throws away 630,000 tonnes of food and drink from our homes every year and most of this could have been eaten. Reducing this waste would save £470 a year for the average household – almost £40 every month. That’s why a new campaign from the Scottish Government is encouraging people across Scotland to cut …
Posted in Misc food and health, News
Social Enterprise Networks website
This new website from Senscot provides news updates from the Social Enterprise Networks and features useful case studies on the work of social enterprise in Scotland. The recently added Changing Local Food Economies: Community Food Case Studies may be of particular interest.
CFHS research project – do you run practical cooking skills activities for adults or young people?
Do you have cooking skills evaluation reports that are gathering dust and too few people to read them? If your answer is yes, please can you help us? 100s of groups and agencies across Scotland run cooking activities for people in low-income communities. But there is very little publically available written evidence about what difference …