Meeting notes Twenty-five people from across Scotland (specialist dietitians, learning disability service providers, community and voluntary sector staff) attended this meeting to hear about and discuss food and health activities. The audience heard from: Dr Craig Melville from the Institute of Health and Wellbeing who discussed obesity and the Institute’s weight management programme for people …
Author archives: Kim Newstead
Improving food and health for adults with learning disabilities – learning from policy, research, and practice in the community
Posted in CFHS updates, Events and conferences
Area of Work: Learning disability
Cooking skills blog 8 – How do you find out if your cooking skills courses are ‘working’?
In the last blog, I talked about focusing on what it is you want your cooking courses to achieve. Once you have done that, you need to think about how to find out if your course has (or hasn’t) achieved this. For many groups, it will be enough to have an informal discussion with participants …
Posted in CFHS Blog, CFHS updates, Finding out if your cooking skills courses are working
Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Information provision, Research and evaluation
Get surplus food direct from local stores to your charity
FareShare FoodCloud links up local not-for profit and charities to local retailers, so that they are able to collect surplus food (for free) in a safe and sustainable way. The FareShare website also includes information about the four surplus food depots operating in Scotland and how to become a community member.
Posted in News
Exploring support for a community food network in Glasgow
Glasgow Food Policy Partnership is keen to hear from those working in the community food sector in Glasgow about whether they feel a community food network for the city would be useful. An event is planned for early June and if you are involved in community food activity in Glasgow and would like to participate, …
Posted in News
Cooking skills blog 7 – What difference do you hope your cooking skills courses will make?
The answer may depend on what the people (participants) attending your course want to get out of it and what you (and your funders) hope it will achieve. The amount of time you have, and participant to practitioner ratio may also have an effect on what outcomes you might be able to achieve. Spending a …
Posted in CFHS Blog, CFHS updates, Finding out if your cooking skills courses are working
Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Information provision
Tesco bags of help funding open
Tesco has grants of up to £12,000 available for community projects such as community gardens, allotments, play areas and other outdoor community projects. The closing date for applications is 3 June. Groundwork are assessing all of the applications received. Groundwork provides a shortlist of the applications received for a Tesco Shortlisting Group to agree three successful …
Posted in Funding news, News
Area of Work: Funding
Blog 6 – What does it mean to support ‘vulnerable’ people on your cooking skills course?
Our cooking skills study group are running their cooking skills courses for ‘vulnerable people’ and/or ‘parents (or carers)’ living on a ‘low-income’. As we’ll be gathering collective evaluation information, we had to agree on how we define these categories. Defining ‘vulnerable’ wasn’t easy. It can include many people, from a recently widowed older man to …
Posted in CFHS Blog, CFHS updates, Recruiting and working with vulnerable groups
Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Information provision
Cooking skills blog
Welcome to our new cooking skills blog. It aims to be useful for anyone who runs, or manages community cooking skills courses for people who are vulnerable or trying to manage on a low-income.
Posted in CFHS Blog, CFHS updates, Cooking course resources, News
Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Information provision
Do you provide a holiday scheme for children? – holiday hunger survey
A survey is available until 16 May that is attempting to map and better understand children’s holiday food needs – ‘holiday hunger’ across the UK. It is being undertaken by Northumbria University on behalf of Westminster’s All Party Parliamentary Group on School Food.