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. …
Author archives: Alice Baird
Cooking skills blog 4: Do you tailor (or target) your cooking skills courses to suit individual needs?
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
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
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
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 …
Posted in CFHS Blog, CFHS updates, Cooking skills research
Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Families with children, Information provision
Children’s Health Fund
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 …
Posted in Funding news, News
The conversation with the people of Scotland
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 …
Posted in CFHS updates
Area of Work: Networking and learning development
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 …
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
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 …
Posted in CFHS updates, Events and conferences, News
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 …
Posted in CFHS updates, News
Area of Work: Community cafes and retailing
Emergency food aid: understand and act
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 …