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E-bulletin : 20 February 2020
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Area of Work: Information provision
Community Food and Health (Scotland) Communications & Social Media survey 2020
Please can you take 5 minutes of your time and complete our recent survey on communications and social media. It is simple to follow and will help inform our future work by measuring impact and effectiveness. Access the survey here Closing date Friday 13 March 2020. Many thanks.
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Upcoming event
In partnership with Children in Scotland and Dundee Bairns, the Food Foundation are holding an international conference on child food insecurity in Dundee on the 28th-29th April 2020. The event will include all their young food ambassadors and Dame Emma Thompson. Register interest via: events@childreninscotland.org.uk To find out more please visit the Food Foundation’s website …
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What do researchers talk about when they talk about cooking skills courses?
I was recently lucky enough to attend and present the results of our realist evaluation of cooking skills courses at a conference in Lisbon. This was the 3rd COOK and Health international conference and was attended by around 60 researchers, all of whom, like me, were enthusiastic about cooking skills. So what did we have …
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Area of Work: Cookery skills
“Community anchor” – big or small? What’s in this term for community food initiatives to think about?
“Community anchor” has become a bit of a cool term, to describe the stature and relevance of organisations within a community to funders and policy makers. Alongside “anchor organisation” and “anchor institution” (see box insert) this jargon is doing the rounds, and though the language is not new[1], I wonder if we all mean the …
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Area of Work: Information provision
Social enterprise and community cafe activity
This new briefing paper from Senscot aims to establish the core purposes these activities serve and gain insight into how community cafe activity is resourced, particularly with regards to the challenges of turning over a surplus. This paper will be followed by a series of shorter publications with a focus on peer-to-peer learning around the …
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The Reckoning – food insecurity measurement and its application to policy and practice – update
This event, held at Edinburgh Training Centre on 25 November 2019, was organised jointly with the Scottish Government, who gave an update on the data currently collected by the Scottish Health Survey and the move to questions within the UK-wide Family Resources Survey. A Menu for Change were also involved in organising the event and …
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Area of Work: Networking and learning development
World Obesity Day – Wednesday 4 March 2020
The roots of obesity run deep… See what is happening for World Obesity Day on 4 March 2020 around the globe. Find out more here.