One in ten people aged over 65 in the UK is malnourished or at risk of malnutrition. In Scotland, Eat Well Age Well are hoping to maximise the impact of the week and have recently launched their Small Ideas, Big Impact Fund which aims to encourage groups and individuals to test ideas that will prevent, detect and/ …
Author archives: Kim Newstead
It’s the first ever UK Malnutrition week! 1- 7 October
Posted in Events and conferences, Funding news, News
How affordable is a healthy diet?
The Children’s Future Food Inquiry have published new analysis which compares the cost of Public Health England’s ‘Eatwell Guide’ with household expenditure across the UK, examining the affordability of a healthy diet in each of the UK’s four nations. The paper looks closely at how food affordability gaps affect children in the UK, and highlights …
Posted in News, Research and consultations
Malnutrition Awareness Week 1-5 October
The first Malnutrition Awareness Week will be taking place in October. In Scotland Eat Well Age Well are hoping to maximise the impact of the week and are looking for community groups and other agencies to join them in raising awareness, tackling myths and sharing information. More information available from the Eat Well Age Well website. …
Posted in Misc food and health, News
Dignity in Practice- Nourish is recruiting participants!
The Dignity in Practice programme, delivered by Nourish Scotland and the Poverty Truth Commission, begins again this autumn. More details and application forms for this practice development programme for community groups interested in promoting and enhancing dignity in responses to food insecurity are available from the Nourish website.
Posted in News, Other opportunities
Cooking skills blog: Cooking skills research – Reasons to be cheerful, part one
Earlier this year, around 50 people, many who run or manage cooking skills activities came together to hear evidence about the impact of community cooking activities. They heard from Professor Martin Caraher (City, University of London) and Dr Ada Garcia (University of Glasgow). Lyndsay Clark (Fife Health & Social Care Partnership) and I discussed the …
Posted in CFHS Blog, CFHS updates, Cooking skills research
Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Information provision, Research and evaluation
New public health priorities for Scotland
A number of community food initiatives contributed to discussions around new public health priorities and these can now be downloaded from the Scottish Government website.
Posted in News, Policy news
CFHS annual networking ‘sharing patter’ conference – Storify now available
The CFHS annual networking conference took place on 25 October in Glasgow. Thank you to all those that attended and contributed to this ‘sharing patter’ event, particularly to our speakers: Brenda Black: Equality Nutrition; Michael Craig: NHS Health Scotland; Dr Andrea Tonner: University of Strathclyde; and to our chair: Susan Kennedy: NHS Forth Valley. Delegates …
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Hungry for Change – food insecurity report
Pilton Community Health Project has just launched a new report – Hungry for Change is the result of conversations between people experiencing food insecurity and those working alongside them North Edinburgh. Download Hungry for Change (PDF)
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CFHS development funding awarded to 42 community initiatives
Forty-two voluntary and community groups have this week been allocated funding by CFHS to promote and deliver healthy eating initiatives. Food and diet play a major role in health and wellbeing, but not everyone can access good food. People on low incomes and those living in poorer areas have less opportunity to eat a healthy diet …
Posted in CFHS updates, Funding news
Area of Work: Funding
Food on the Table campaign and survey
Citizens Advice Bureaux across Scotland recently launched the Food on the Table campaign which aims to give the Scottish public a voice on the affordability, choice and access to food. The first phase of the campaign will promote a national survey, both on and offline, which will ask the public’s opinion on food concerns: What …