Last year, Katy Gordon, a PhD student took part in an internship within CFHS. Katy ran an online survey and interviewed practitioners to find out how they supported people experiencing food insecurity on their cooking skills courses. Her full report ‘Just getting on with it’ is now available. Meanwhile here are few examples of activities they …
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Cooking skills blog 33: Working with vulnerable groups: Supporting people affected by food insecurity: ideas from practitioners
Also posted in CFHS Blog, CFHS updates, Recruiting and working with vulnerable groups
Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Food poverty and access, Information provision
Help to map awareness and use of participation requests among community organisations
Are you a member of a community organisation? Have you heard of participation requests, and are you thinking about making one? Participation requests are a new way for community organisations to have their voices heard in the planning and delivery of services. The right to make a participation request to a public body was introduced …
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Cooking skills blog 32: Practitioner guest blog: ‘the benefits of being forgetful and burning rice’
Chris Mantle ANutr, Senior Food and Health Development Worker, is our guest blogger this week. Chris is a member of our cooking skills study group and runs regular cooking courses for Edinburgh Community Food. Chris gives his thoughts on the benefits of not always being the perfect cook when running community cooking courses. ‘Having grown up – essentially …
Also posted in CFHS Blog, CFHS updates, Ideas about developing and running cooking skills courses
Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Information provision
Calling all Scottish community enterprises …
to take 10 minutes to complete the Social Enterprise Census 2017, the national count of social enterprises supported by the Scottish Government and others. Almost 900 enterprising charities, community co-ops and social enterprises have already responded
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Everyone can cook!
This new recipe book from Pilton Community Health Project features recipes chosen and put together by participants of its Wednesday cooking club. Each recipe is simple, healthy and cheap to make and is a particular favourite of the local person featured. Download Everyone can cook! (PDF)
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Empowering our Communities pop-up day, June 26th
Scotland now has ‘Community Empowerment’ legislation, growing co-production and participatory budgeting (or ‘community choices’) movements, and communities who are have shown the difference that community ownership of assets can make for making local places better.However, many of us who are working hard to change things locally can feel cut off from sources of support and …
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Cooking skills blog 31: Cooking course resources: updates from REHIS
Yesterday I attended the Royal Environmental Health Institute of Scotland (REHIS) seminar for practitioners who run the REHIS accredited Elementary Cooking skills course and other REHIS food and health courses. REHIS, Obesity Action Scotland, Food Standards Scotland and I, provided updates on resources and information around food and health and/ or training. Updates included: Planned …
Also posted in CFHS Blog, CFHS updates, Cooking course resources
Areas of Work: Food and nutrition training, Information provision
Community café self-evaluation programme
Would you like your cafe to be able to demonstrate the difference it’s making to your staff, volunteers, customers and community? Would you like to be involved in developing a range of tools that other cafes can use to evaluate the impact of their work as well? Community Food and Health (Scotland) is looking for six …
Also posted in CFHS updates
Area of Work: Community cafes and retailing
Cooking skills blog 30: What are the best recipes to use on a cooking skills course? Part 2.
All the practitioners in our cooking skills study group hope that people on their courses will make the recipes they have learned on the course again at home. Most are encouraging course participants to choose the recipes for some, or all of the course sessions, and I have already written a post (see blog 14) …
Also posted in CFHS Blog, CFHS updates, Ideas about developing and running cooking skills courses
Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Information provision
Do you run or manage community cooking skills activities in Scotland?
If, yes, please consider completing our survey. If your organisation has more than one person who runs cooking skills activities on behalf of your organisation, please consider choosing just one person to complete it. Please complete our survey if you can answer ‘yes’ to each of the following three questions: Do you run or manage …