The meeting will build on the roundtable discussion we had last December (notes from the meeting are available here) and will provide an opportunity to learn from research, policy and practical work and to discuss issues on implementing good practice with speakers and your colleagues. This is a small meeting (up to 30 people) Speakers …
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Improving food and health for adults with learning disabilities – learning from policy and practice in the community
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Area of Work: Learning disability
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. However, all members of the group run their cooking skills courses differently to each other, and they run each of their courses differently. They will …
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Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Information provision
Cooking skills blog 3: research on involving children in cooking
In this fortnight’s blog, I’ll look at two presentations from the COOK and Health Scientific Symposium held at the Basque Culinary Center in San Sebastian that my colleague Jacqui attended last November. Both suggested that involving children in hands-on cooking programmes can have a positive impact on their diet (at least in the short-term) and …
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Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Families with children, Information provision
The conversation with the people of Scotland
The conversation with the people of Scotland was an opportunity for Health Scotland to facilitate public engagement opportunities within a community setting. An opportunity for Health Scotland to capture opinion about a community people live, work and volunteer within, and a chance for the organisation to talk about a fairer, healthier Scotland with people in …
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Area of Work: Networking and learning development
Cooking skills blog 2: research on involving children and their parents in cooking
Last November, my CFHS colleague, Jacqui McDowell, attended the COOK and Health Scientific Symposium held at the Basque Culinary Center in San Sebastian. This shared up-to-date academic knowledge on the relationships between cooking, eating behaviours and health. In this fortnight’s blog, I’ll highlight one piece of the research presented which focused on involving children and …
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Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Families with children, Information provision
Food poverty: Measuring, monitoring and making a difference
Following our recent seminar, “Food poverty: Measuring, monitoring and making a difference”, organised jointly with the Rowett Institute, the key speaker Prof Valerie Tarasuk, from the University of Toronto, has kindly given permission to make her fascinating presentation available for download.
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Area of Work: Food poverty and access
Next community cafe learning visit
Booking is now open for places on CFHS’s latest community café learning visit on Friday 18 March. Running from 12 – 2.30 p.m., it includes visit to two cafes: CentrePoint Cafe in Gowkthrapple and NCT Centre in Newmains, both in North Lanarkshire. Places are available for anyone involved in setting up, running, managing or supporting …
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Area of Work: Community cafes and retailing
Cooking skills blog
Welcome to our new cooking skills blog. It aims to be useful for anyone who runs, or manages community cooking skills courses for people who are vulnerable or trying to manage on a low-income.
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Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Information provision
CFHS cooking skills study group
We are currently running an 18-month long cooking skills study group for eight organisations – NHS, local authority and community initiatives from across Scotland who are supporting people who are vulnerable or from low-income communities. The organisations are Fife Health and Social Care Partnership, NHS Grampian, Edinburgh Community Food, Healthy Valleys, Lanarkshire Community Food and …
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Area of Work: Cookery skills
Community cafe networking event, June 2015
What was it? The third Scottish-wide networking event for community café practitioners was held in June 2015. It was planned and run jointly by Community Food and Health (Scotland) or CFHS, Edinburgh Community Food (ECF) and members of Edinburgh Community Café Network (ECCN). The event took place in St Andrew and St George’s Church in …