The Scottish Government Food Insecurity Team have provided guidance for community food initiatives (CFIs), which covers information on: How CFIs can help: the Scottish Welfare Fund and use of vouchers; staff, volunteer and service user safety; food supply; maintaining dignity whilst providing food aid; food safety; and details about how to contact this Scottish Government …
Author archives: Kim Newstead
COVID-19: Guidance for community food organisations
Posted in CFHS updates, Covid-19, News
Area of Work: Covid-19 information and resources
COVID-19: General public health advice, resources and food safety
UPDATE: 17 April 2020. The Food Standards Agency recently produced guidance for Covid-19 guidance for food businesses and their employees. The UK government has also provided comprehensive advice for food businesses. NHS Forth Valley have produced a useful video on providing shopping to people in your community safely. For the most up to date health …
Posted in CFHS updates, Covid-19, Misc food and health, News
Area of Work: Covid-19 information and resources
What do researchers talk about when they talk about cooking skills courses?
I was recently lucky enough to attend and present the results of our realist evaluation of cooking skills courses at a conference in Lisbon. This was the 3rd COOK and Health international conference and was attended by around 60 researchers, all of whom, like me, were enthusiastic about cooking skills. So what did we have …
Posted in CFHS Blog, CFHS updates, Cooking skills research
Area of Work: Cookery skills
“Community anchor” – big or small? What’s in this term for community food initiatives to think about?
“Community anchor” has become a bit of a cool term, to describe the stature and relevance of organisations within a community to funders and policy makers. Alongside “anchor organisation” and “anchor institution” (see box insert) this jargon is doing the rounds, and though the language is not new[1], I wonder if we all mean the …
Posted in CFHS Blog, CFHS updates
Area of Work: Information provision
Food for Life Get Togethers in Scotland – bringing communities closer. Resources available.
The Soil Association’s Food for Life Get Togethers are fun activities and events involving good food that bring people of different ages and backgrounds together. They can be big or small and might involve growing, cooking, eating or all three! If you think you could run a Food for Life Get Together for your community, …
Posted in Funding news, News, Other opportunities
Scottish Cancer Prevention Network newsletter
A tenth anniversary edition of their newsletter has just gone out from the Scottish Cancer Prevention Network and is available from their website.
Posted in News, Publications news
Environmental Protection Scotland’s new publication
Of interest to community growers would be Environmental Protection Scotland’s publication on land contamination, available from their website.
Posted in News, Publications news
RSA’s Food, Farming and Countryside Scottish Commission report
The report from the RSA’s Food, Farming and Countryside Scottish Commission is available on their website.
Posted in News, Publications news
Update: Priceless CFHS Annual Networking Conference, 4 November 2019
Community Food and Health Scotland’s 2019 Annual Networking Conference – Priceless – was an informative event, which stimulated many interesting discussions and was an excellent networking opportunity. Our keynote speaker’s Wendy Wills Presentation at Priceless Conference has been uploaded. Please follow this link to read the Conference summary report. In addition, an evaluation survey summary …
Posted in CFHS updates, Events and conferences
Area of Work: Networking and learning development
COVID-19: Scottish Government support for community food responses
UPDATE: 12 May 2020 Next round of funding from the Wellbeing Fund is now open to applications until 12 noon on 22 May 2020. UPDATE: 17 April 2020: Wellbeing Fund Community organisations looking for funding to support their food activities at this time should register an expression of interest to the Wellbeing Fund now. The …