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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Community cafe learning visit to Fly Cup Catering – places available
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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
CFHS cooking skills learning exchange
Registration is now open for our cooking skills learning exchange, to be held in the Apex Grassmarket Hotel in Edinburgh on 10 November. Come and hear about our cooking skills work, learn from your colleagues and share your ideas. This event will be useful for you, if you: Plan to, or, already run, manage, or …
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Area of Work: Cookery skills
CFHS community cafe networking event 1 September 2016
We had an enjoyable and interesting day at the Pearce Institute in Glasgow. Around 60 delegates attended and enjoyed workshops and networking and various activities throughout the day.
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Area of Work: Community cafes and retailing
Cooking Skills Blog 17: What are the benefits of running a structured cooking skills course?
Earlier this week I attended the Community Cooking Network event at the Heart of Scotstoun Community Centre in Glasgow. It provided updates and ideas for those interested in, or delivering the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (GGC) ‘eat better feel better’ cooking courses. This course was designed and piloted by the NHS’s Health Improvement Team …
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Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Information provision
Chewing things over … CFHS annual networking conference 2016
Registration is now open for our annual networking event in Edinburgh on 26 October 2016. The conference programme is now available, together with details of the workshop sessions.
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Cooking skills blog 16: practitioner guest blog –Gail Hutchison: reflecting on two very different approaches to managing and evaluating cooking courses
Gail is a member of the CFHS cooking skills study group on behalf of both NHS Forth Valley and Edinburgh Community Food. Her role at both is to manage and deliver cooking skills courses, but each organisation runs these differently. Gail explains the challenges and advantages for both her learning and as part of the …
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Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Information provision, Research and evaluation
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, …