Our cooking skills study group recently met to discuss how they are getting on with the challenges of thoroughly evaluating their cooking skills courses. For many people that run cooking …
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Cooking skills blog 12: Finding out if your cooking skills courses are ‘working’: as well as asking participants, who else can you get feedback from?
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Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Information provision, Research and evaluation
Cooking skills blog 11. Recruiting and retaining ‘vulnerable’ course participants
Our guest blog writer this week is CFHS cooking skills study group member Gail Hutchison. Gail (ANutr) has been running community cooking skills courses for Edinburgh Community Food since 2013 …
Also posted in CFHS updates, Recruiting and working with vulnerable groups
Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Information provision
Cooking skills blog 10: Finding out if your cooking skills courses are ‘working’: How can you improve your questionnaires?
Questionnaires are a popular way of evaluating cooking skills courses. If they are planned well, they are a quick and easy to use and can be used for two different …
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Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Information provision, Research and evaluation
Cooking skills blog 9. The new eatwell guide, the REHIS accredited cooking skills course and ‘training for trainers’
Last week I attended the Royal Environmental Health Institute of Scotland (REHIS) event for those that teach the accredited Elementary Cooking skills course and other REHIS food and health courses. …
Also posted in CFHS updates, Cooking course resources
Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Food and nutrition training, Information provision
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 …
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Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Information provision, Research and evaluation
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 …
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Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Information provision
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 …
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Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Information provision
Cooking skills blog 5: Does your group eat together at the end of a cooking skills session?
How do you decide what to do with the food that has been cooked? Should participants take the food home (to share with others, or eat later) or is it …
Also posted in CFHS updates, Ideas about developing and running cooking skills courses
Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Information provision
Cooking skills blog 4: Do you tailor (or target) your cooking skills courses to suit individual needs?
Our cooking skills study group has already met and agreed a list of outcomes that each of them will evaluate when they run their courses over the next six months. …
Also posted in CFHS updates, Ideas about developing and running cooking skills courses
Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Information provision
Cooking skills blog 13: How can ‘significant others’ help (or hinder) the aims of your cooking skills course?
Our cooking skills study group recently met together and shared ideas about running effective cooking skills courses. One topic they discussed was the role of ‘significant others’ attending courses. That …