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 …
CFHS updates
Cooking skills blog 19: Finding out if your cooking skills courses are ‘working’: assessments, quizzes and photos
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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 …
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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 …
Also posted in CFHS Blog, Ideas about developing and running cooking skills courses
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 …
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Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Information provision, Research and evaluation
Cooking Skills Blog 15 – Researcher guest blog: developing sustainable cooking courses in partnership with people using a mental health support centre
In this guest blog, Michelle Estradé, research consultant at the Scottish Collaboration for Public Health Research and Policy (SCPHRP) explores how the idea of ‘ownership’ might help develop cooking courses …
Also posted in CFHS Blog, Cooking skills research
Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Information provision, Research and evaluation
CFHS community cafe visits
CFHS is holding three more community café learning visits, on 4, 12 and 19 October. The three community cafes hosting the visits – the Annexe Café, Windmills Café and Fly …
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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 …