Simon Bradstreet, Network Director of the Scottish Recovery Network will be one of the speakers at the Mind the Menu event on 6 June in Dundee. This free event will focus on the role community food work can play in supporting positive mental health and wellbeing. It will include speakers, a series of workshops showcasing …
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Case Studies
CORE (Community Organisation for Race Equality) has developed a case study on their World Cafe. It covers the background and history of the World Cafe, the essential elements of the model, the role of volunteers, the development of healthy recipes and how the cafe works to build links between individuals and communities. It is an …
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Areas of Work: Community cafes and retailing, Minority ethnic communities
Maternal and infant nutrition
CFHS commissioned Rock Solid Social Research Ltd in partnership with Communicable Health to carry out research into how community food and health and voluntary organisations are carrying out activities that support the main priorities of the Scottish Government’s ‘Improving Maternal and Infant Nutrition: A Framework for Action’. The research completed by Rock Solid Social Research is …
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Areas of Work: Families with children, Research and evaluation
Linking community growers, retailers and caterers
Edinburgh Community Food (ECF) was funded by CFHS to follow up the research [PDF, 1292kb] carried out by Blake Stevenson last year, which looked at the feasibility of developing a produce supply chain between community growers and community food retailers and caterers in Edinburgh. ECF is identifying if there is a business case for setting up a supply …
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Area of Work: Community cafes and retailing
Strengthening food work with minority ethnic communities
Development funding for work on maternal and infant nutrition across minority ethnic communities in Scotland CFHS has a small amount of development funding available to support the development of good practice examples of work on maternal and infant nutrition across minority ethnic communities in Scotland. If you are already working on maternal and infant nutrition …
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Regional networking
CFHS and the Food and Health Alliance (FHA)- NHS Health Scotland, have been piloting regional networking events to improve links with food activity across the food chain. A food networking event took place on 1 May in Galashiels in collaboration with NHS Scottish Borders and Scottish Borders Council. The event focused on showcasing food activities …
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Area of Work: Networking and learning development
CFHS annual networking conference 2013
Delegates thoroughly enjoyed the CFHS national networking conference held at COSLA conference centre, Edinburgh on 31 October. Delegates included community food initiative workers, people from community gardens, volunteers, NHS staff, planners, policy makers and researchers. The conference was an excellent opportunity for people to come together and discuss food, health inequalities and social justice. Highlights …
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Community retailing
CFHS continues to work with the Scottish Grocers Federation (SGF) to roll out the SGF ‘Healthy Living’ programme’s training and resources to community food retailers – co-ops, outlets and shops. During 2013-14, we will be running further training for community food retailers, to help them maximise sales and minimise waste. Details will be posted on our …
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Microfunding – increasing access to local food
CFHS is looking for applications for funding from community food intiatives that want to increase access to locally grown fruit and vegetables in their communities. Groups can apply for up to £1000 to develop ideas to make this happen. The funding programme runs until the end of March 2013, but will close once all the …