Following on from discussion at the meetings in 2011, CFHS funded learning opportunities for staff and volunteers involved in community food work with minority ethnic communities in Scotland. In autumn …
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Capacity building training
Posted in CFHS updates
Areas of Work: Food and nutrition training, Minority ethnic communities, Networking and learning development
Networking meeting for organisations working to strengthen food work across minority ethnic communities
CFHS held a national networking meeting for organisations working to strengthen food work across minority ethnic communities on Friday 15 March in Glasgow. Tanveer Parnez and Emilia Petka from BEMIS …
Posted in CFHS updates
Areas of Work: Minority ethnic communities, Networking and learning development
Maternal and infant nutrition across ME communities in Scotland
CFHS worked in partnership with BEMIS to look at the specific needs of community and voluntary sector organisations supporting work on maternal and infant nutrition across minority ethnic communities in …
Posted in CFHS updates
Areas of Work: Families with children, Minority ethnic communities
Theory of change research
Rock Solid Social Research has completed its work looking at the ‘theory of change’ that underpins the work of community food initiatives that are looking to improve food access for older …
Posted in CFHS updates
Areas of Work: Older people, Research and evaluation
Evaluation of funding for training in food, nutrition and health
In 2009, CFHS provided funding to community based mental health organisations to provide training in food, nutrition and health has now been evaluated. A report on the outcomes [PDF, 111kb] is now …
Posted in CFHS updates
Areas of Work: Funding, Mental health and wellbeing, Research and evaluation
Case Studies
CORE (Community Organisation for Race Equality) has developed a case study on their World Cafe. It covers the background and history of the World Cafe, the essential elements of the …
Posted in CFHS updates
Areas of Work: Community cafes and retailing, Minority ethnic communities
Food, mental health and wellbeing bulletin
CFHS and the Scottish Development Centre for Mental Health have produced a joint bulletin on the links between food, mental health and wellbeing. The bulletin includes a look at current …
Posted in CFHS updates
Area of Work: Mental health and wellbeing
Examining the evidence
CFHS has commissioned SCPHRP (Scottish Collaboration for Public Health Research and Policy) at Edinburgh University to undertake an analysis of the learning from the work on evaluation that we have …