Questionnaires are a popular way of evaluating cooking skills courses. If they are planned well, they are a quick and easy to use and can be used for two different …
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Cooking skills blog 10: Finding out if your cooking skills courses are ‘working’: How can you improve your questionnaires?
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Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Information provision, Research and evaluation
Cooking skills blog 9. The new eatwell guide, the REHIS accredited cooking skills course and ‘training for trainers’
Last week I attended the Royal Environmental Health Institute of Scotland (REHIS) event for those that teach the accredited Elementary Cooking skills course and other REHIS food and health courses. …
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Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Food and nutrition training, Information provision
Do you provide a holiday scheme for children? – holiday hunger survey
A survey is available until 16 May that is attempting to map and better understand children’s holiday food needs – ‘holiday hunger’ across the UK. It is being undertaken by Northumbria University …
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Improving food and health for adults with learning disabilities – learning from policy, research, and practice in the community
Meeting notes Twenty-five people from across Scotland (specialist dietitians, learning disability service providers, community and voluntary sector staff) attended this meeting to hear about and discuss food and health activities. …
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Area of Work: Learning disability
Cooking skills blog 8 – How do you find out if your cooking skills courses are ‘working’?
In the last blog, I talked about focusing on what it is you want your cooking courses to achieve. Once you have done that, you need to think about how …
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Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Information provision, Research and evaluation
Get surplus food direct from local stores to your charity
FareShare FoodCloud links up local not-for profit and charities to local retailers, so that they are able to collect surplus food (for free) in a safe and sustainable way. The …
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Exploring support for a community food network in Glasgow
Glasgow Food Policy Partnership is keen to hear from those working in the community food sector in Glasgow about whether they feel a community food network for the city would …
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Cooking skills blog 7 – What difference do you hope your cooking skills courses will make?
The answer may depend on what the people (participants) attending your course want to get out of it and what you (and your funders) hope it will achieve. The amount …
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Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Information provision
Tesco bags of help funding open
Tesco has grants of up to £12,000 available for community projects such as community gardens, allotments, play areas and other outdoor community projects. The closing date for applications is 3 …
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Survey on children’s cooking skills
The Children’s Food Trust want to give children in Scotland more chances to learn to cook and would love to hear your views on the importance of cooking skills in the challenge …