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Emergency food aid: understand and act

Organisations across Scotland providing advice and support to people who may use emergency food aid, community food and health projects and statutory bodies with an interest in the issue are …

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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. …

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Plenty: Food, farming and health in a new Scotland

New report from the Scottish Food Coalition launches today http://is.gd/pggfBy 

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Scottish Food Commission interim report now available

The report can be downloaded from the Scottish Government website. https://www2.gov.scot/Resource/0049/00494779.pdf 

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Cooking skills blog 3: research on involving children in cooking

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 …

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Children’s Health Fund

The Children’s Health Fund is offering funding of grants between £500 to £5000 for projects that have innovative ideas that will promote or provide access to drinking water in public …

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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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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 …

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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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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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