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 …
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COVID-19: General public health advice, resources and food safety
Also posted in Covid-19, Misc food and health, News
Area of Work: Covid-19 information and resources
CFHS e-bulletin: 19 March 2020
Please follow the link to our newest e-bulletin here.
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Area of Work: Information provision
Fare Choice 81
Please see the publications library for the March edition of Fare Choice.
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Area of Work: Information provision
E-bulletin : 20 February 2020
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Area of Work: Information provision
Community Food and Health (Scotland) Communications & Social Media survey 2020
Please can you take 5 minutes of your time and complete our recent survey on communications and social media. It is simple to follow and will help inform our future work by measuring impact and effectiveness. Access the survey here Closing date Friday 13 March 2020. Many thanks.
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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 …
Also posted in CFHS Blog, 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 …
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Area of Work: Information provision
The Reckoning – food insecurity measurement and its application to policy and practice – update
This event, held at Edinburgh Training Centre on 25 November 2019, was organised jointly with the Scottish Government, who gave an update on the data currently collected by the Scottish Health Survey and the move to questions within the UK-wide Family Resources Survey. A Menu for Change were also involved in organising the event and …
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Area of Work: Networking and learning development
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 …
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Area of Work: Networking and learning development
COVID-19: Guidance for community food organisations
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 …