The bumper Summer edition of our e-bulletin is full of news, resources, events, and funding opportunities. It also has details of our forthcoming webinar, Cash-First Approaches to Food Insecurity. You can access the e-bulletin here.
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CFHS April e-bulletin
Our latest e-bulletin tells you about our plans ahead as well as all the latest webinars, reports, funding and recordings. You can access the April e-bulletin here.
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Building Community Food Resilience
The Food Ethics Council has written this guide to unpick and understand what a path to building community food resilience could look like in the UK, moving away from emergency food aid towards approaches that build long-term community food resilience. The report can be downloaded from the Food Ethics Council website
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Food bank use, poverty and mental health
Joseph Rowntree Foundation and Independent Food Aid Network have just published a new report exploring the impact of poverty and food bank use on people’s mental health. The report is available on the IFAN website.
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Home from Hospital guide
Sustain has published a new guide: Home from hospital: ensuring people have access to food at hospital discharge and beyond. This guide summarises five key elements of ensuring people have support in place and includes examples of good practice from around the country. The guide can be downloaded from the Sustain website. A recording of …
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March e-bulletin
Our March e-bulletin includes information about linking your work to local policy as well as the latest events, training, consultations and reports. You can read our March e-bulletin here
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Children’s Healthier Eating Toolkit
This toolkit contains ten different activities to support families to make positive changes to their diet and can be used in a variety of settings. The toolkit is available to download here.
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New healthy eating resource for BSL users
The Eatwell Guide is now available on the NHS Inform website as a series of eight videos featuring the different food groups and recommendations on how to maintain a healthy, balanced and nutritious diet. There are also Keeping Active guidelines, which comprise four videos with advice for all ages on how to keep healthy physical activity activities.
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Journey to the centre of the evidence
Our colleagues at CHEX have produced a new briefing, which puts the onus on statutory organisations and funders to unravel their old ways of working with and thinking about evidence so that they can make better use of evidence from communities and third sector and community organisations. The briefing can be found on the CHEX …
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Whole Systems Approach to diet and healthy weight early adopter process evaluation
Public Health Scotland has published the process evaluation of the Whole Systems Approach (WSA) to the diet and healthy weight early adopter programme, which is accompanied by a suite of case studies. In partnership with Scottish Government, Food Standards Scotland and Obesity Action Scotland, PHS supported local areas, known as “early adopters”, to pilot a WSA to diet …