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 …
CFHS updates
Cooking skills blog 3: research on involving children in cooking
Also posted in CFHS Blog, Cooking skills research
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 …
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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 …
Also posted in CFHS Blog, Cooking skills research
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 …
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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 …
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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.
Also posted in CFHS Blog, Cooking course resources
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 …
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Area of Work: Cookery skills
Food and health in learning disability services roundtable meeting
CFHS held a small roundtable discussion late last year. The meeting: ‘Embedding food and health activities and policies across learning disability services – what are the barriers and successes?’ was …
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Area of Work: Learning disability
Community cafe learning visit
CFHS’s next community café learning visit is on Tuesday 9 February, 11 am to 2.30 pm, to Wellmeadow Café in Blairgowrie and the Walled Garden Café in Perth. Places are …
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Area of Work: Community cafes and retailing
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. …