This week my colleague Jacqui McDowell (who has led on supporting our cooking skills study group on planning the evaluation of their cooking courses) reflects on the challenge of finding the perfect methods or tools to find out the difference your course is making. ‘We all know that we have to evaluate our cooking skills …
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Cooking skills blog 22: Finding out if your cooking skills courses are ‘working’: Guest blog by Jacqui McDowell: ‘The impact puzzle’
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Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Information provision, Research and evaluation
Cooking skills blog 21: new CFHS guide – What’s cooking in Scotland? Part three
Last week, we launched a new guide What’s Cooking in Scotland? Part Three at our cooking skills learning exchange in Edinburgh. Around 40 people attended this, many of whom are running cooking courses within community and voluntary sector organisations in low-income communities. The new guide provides tools and ideas to help you think in more …
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Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Information provision, Research and evaluation
Community cooking groups: supporting people who are struggling to have enough food to get them/their families through the week
Do you run or manage cooking courses within low income communities in Scotland? Do you sometimes find participants are struggling to have enough food to get them through the week? Do have 15 minutes to complete an online survey? Community Food and Health (Scotland) are undertaking a project exploring the methods which cooking course trainers …
Also posted in News, Research and consultations
Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Food poverty and access
Chewing things over … CFHS annual networking conference
The CFHS annual networking conference took place on 26 October in Edinburgh. Thank you to those who attended and contributed to the day, particularly to our speakers, Martyn Evans, Chief Executive, Carnegie Trust UK, and Ewan Aitken, Chief Executive Officer, Cyrenians, and to our Chair, Iain Stewart, Chief Executive of Edinburgh Community Food. The conference …
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Area of Work: Networking and learning development
Increasing access to fruit and vegetables : Learning from Wholesome Wave
Nourish, Community Food and Health (Scotland) and the Glasgow Food Policy Partnership are inviting community food organisations, policy makers, public health practitioners, food producers, food businesses, housing associations and civil society groups to meet Gus Schumacher from Wholesome Wave on 28 November in Edinburgh or 29 November in Glasgow.
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Cooking skills blog 20: Are cooking skills courses any use to people experiencing food poverty?
Many practitioners running cooking courses across Scotland try to ensure these focus on preparing tasty, affordable healthy meals, using ingredients that can be bought in the shops that course participants already use. However, what do you do if you become aware that someone on your course might not be able to afford these budget recipes, …
Also posted in CFHS Blog, Cooking skills research, Recruiting and working with vulnerable groups
Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Food poverty and access, Information provision
Community cafe learning visit to Fly Cup Catering – places available
A couple of places are now available for our community cafe learning visit to Fly Cup Catering in Inverurie on Wednesday 19 October. The visit’s open to anyone working in or with a community cafe, or in a group that’s supporting people with learning disabilities and interested in setting up a food and health activity. …
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Areas of Work: Community cafes and retailing, Learning disability
Community-led research into food security and insecurity
Research reports from our three community partners – Central and West Integration Network, Linwood Community Development Trust, and Borders Healthy Living Network are now available. Borders Healthy Living Network has also produced a video, which can be found below. The research aimed to explore aspirations of food security and experience of food insecurity from people …
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Areas of Work: Food poverty and access, Research and evaluation
Cooking skills blog 19: Finding out if your cooking skills courses are ‘working’: assessments, quizzes and photos
Our cooking skills study group recently met to share their ideas and discuss their evaluation challenges. All of them are confident about using at least two approaches or sources of evaluation such as: Taking observation notes during the course; and Using a participant self-reporting approach by asking participants to fill in questionnaires before and after the …
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Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Information provision, Research and evaluation
Our capacity building fund will close on Friday 20 January
Community Food and Health (Scotland) has one remaining funding opportunity available for groups and agencies in Scotland that wish to improve access to, and take up of, a healthy, varied and balanced diet. Our capacity building fund (up to £500) is currently open. Please read the guidance notes before you apply The capacity building fund will …