A report about the three community café learning visits held between November 2014 and February 2015 will be available shortly. CFHS are planning to hold more learning visits next year. If you are interested in your café hosting a visit, please contact Anne.
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Food Plus in Practice
CFHS’s new publication about community food initiatives that are working to reduce food poverty through delivering a range of services is now available online. The publication includes examples of eight community food initiatives that are offering emergency food aid and more. The publication can be found here.
Posted in CFHS updates
The contribution of community-based food and health activities to Improving Maternal and Infant Nutrition: A Framework for Action
CFHS’s new publication summarises the early years activities of 18 groups and agencies it funded in 2013 through the CFHS development fund. The publication can be found here: Improving Maternal and Infant Nutrition: A Framework for Action.
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Eat Better Feel Better Campaign
The Eat Better Feel Better team would like to thank you for your ongoing support and help in promoting the Scottish Government’s Eat Better Feel Better Campaign. The campaign launched at the beginning of January, so hopefully you will have had a chance to spot some of the campaign assets on TV, radio, in local community centres or in your local supermarket.
More information about any aspect of the campaign please contact Claire Prentice.
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Exploration of the information support needs of parents
Research was carried out by Children in Scotland on behalf of NHS Health Scotland, with the aim of exploring the information support experiences, needs and preferences of parents with young children living in Scotland and focused on three specific groups: fathers; young parents, and parents with literacy issues. A report on the research is now …
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Maternal and infant nutrition
CFHS commissioned Rock Solid Social Research Ltd in partnership with Communicable Health to carry out research into how community food and health and voluntary organisations are carrying out activities that support the main priorities of the Scottish Government’s ‘Improving Maternal and Infant Nutrition: A Framework for Action’. The research completed by Rock Solid Social Research is …
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Areas of Work: Families with children, Research and evaluation
Linking community growers, retailers and caterers
Edinburgh Community Food (ECF) was funded by CFHS to follow up the research [PDF, 1292kb] carried out by Blake Stevenson last year, which looked at the feasibility of developing a produce supply chain between community growers and community food retailers and caterers in Edinburgh. ECF is identifying if there is a business case for setting up a supply …
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Area of Work: Community cafes and retailing
Strengthening food work with minority ethnic communities
Development funding for work on maternal and infant nutrition across minority ethnic communities in Scotland CFHS has a small amount of development funding available to support the development of good practice examples of work on maternal and infant nutrition across minority ethnic communities in Scotland. If you are already working on maternal and infant nutrition …
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Community retailing roundtable
In September, CFHS held a roundtable meeting to discuss the future of community retailing, especially community-run food co-ops, fruit stalls and barras. Representatives from five community food initiatives that support food co-ops took part. Everyone agreed that community retailing is important, has a future, but requires support to develop its impact. A note of the discussion …