With the latest Scottish Health Survey results due to include data from the three new food insecurity questions and research work ongoing across the UK, CFHS is delighted to be …
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Areas of Work: Food poverty and access, Networking and learning development
CFHS blog – Bad mood soup: a personal take on how you feel affects what you cook
‘… and maybe that dish isn’t identical the next time you make it, as you use your emotions when you cook …’ Neil Forbes, Chef (from twitter) One of my …
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Area of Work: Information provision
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 …
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Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Information provision, Research and evaluation
Guest blog: Sue O’Neill-Berest from Cyrenians on food insecurity, cooking and using CFHS development funding to run sessions for young mums
Something to eat, someone to eat with The Food and Agricultural organisation of the United Nations has suggested that 8.4 million live in food insecure households in the UK. (Taylor, …
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Areas of Work: Food poverty and access, Funding, Information provision
1st World Congress on Migration, Ethnicity, Race and Health
Florence Dioka from Central and West Integration Network (CWIN) and our colleague Jacqui presented the poster below at the 1st World Congress on Migration, Ethnicity, Race and Health, on 18 May …
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Areas of Work: Food poverty and access, Networking and learning development
CFHS blog – How can you support people with learning disabilities to eat better?
Finding good resources suitable to help people with learning disabilities to eat well can be a real challenge. The healthy eating, healthy living training pack is a unique tried-and-tested resource …
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Areas of Work: Food and nutrition training, Information provision, Learning disability
Self-evaluation programme for community cafes
Between August 2017 and March 2018 we worked with a small group of community cafes to look at self-evaluation. Together they developed a list of community cafe outcomes to reflect the range of …
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Areas of Work: Community cafes and retailing, Research and evaluation
Community Food Social Enterprise Network and community retailers ‘sharing good practice’ sessions
Around 40 community food initiatives took part in an event on 7 March, run jointly by CFHS and Senscot. A community food social enterprise network session was held in the …
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Areas of Work: Community cafes and retailing, Networking and learning development
Time to Digest
Despite the Arctic conditions and transport systems in chaos, practitioners, policy makers and researchers from across Scotland and beyond met in Glasgow for this latest get together looking at measurement …
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Area of Work: Food poverty and access
Hear Say
The CFHS annual networking conference will take place on Wednesday 24 October at the Carnegie Conference Centre in Dunfermline. Planning is going well for this latest event, with speakers confirmed …