National Food Policy; CFHS small grant scheme; Whole-school approaches to food education in Ireland; Scottish Grocers Federation Healthy Living programme; Burnfoot Community School; Planting to Plate; Food for Tot
Publications
Fare Choice Issue 43
National Policy - local voices
(March 2008)
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: children, growing and gardening, Healthy Living initiatives, homelessness, parents and carers, policy, schools
Area of Work: Information provision
Food Matters Issue 5
(December 2007)
Edition 5 of our regular e-bulletin update on developments in food, health and homelessness in Scotland.
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: capacity building, funding, homelessness, inclusion, independent living skills, participatory appraisal
Fare Choice Issue 42
be seen
(December 2007)
National Food Policy for Scotland; Back in Touch; Taste for Independence; food, health and homelessness; Cyrenians Farm
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: capacity building, community cafes, evaluation, farming and city farms, food training, healthy eating, parents and carers, policy
Area of Work: Information provision
Implementing Together the Community-led Task Group Recommendations
(October 2007)
A briefing produced for the CFHS annual conference 2007 on implementing the recommendations of the Scottish Government’s Task Group on Supporting and Developing Healthy Communities.
Publication category: Policy and planning
Related topics: community-led, Scottish Government
Scoping study
collective action to address community access to food
(August 2007)
A scoping study commissioned by CFHS, looking at the options for greater collective action by food co-op networks in east-central Scotland.
Publication category: Policy and planning
Related topics: Central Belt, community food activity, Edinburgh, food co-op, Lothians, policy, scoping studies
Areas of Work: Community cafes and retailing, Research and evaluation
A taste for independence
using food to develop skills for life
(October 2007)
This guide discusses the experiences of 21 organisations throughout Scotland who work with a range of vulnerable groups. All these groups used food activities such as cooking, food shopping and budgeting to help people develop their independent living skills
Publication category: Business and project development
Related topics: homelessness, independent living skills, learning disabilities, mental health
Area of Work: Learning disability
0-5 children and parents including infant nutrition
(May 2007)
Notes from a roundtable discussion looking at what approaches are being developed to address health inequalities through food from a very early age.
Publication category: Children and young people
Related topics: baby feeding, discussion, early years, infant nutrition, pregnancy and maternal health, weaning
Areas of Work: Families with children, Networking and learning development
Fare Choice Issue 41
all talk and all action
(September 2007)
Glasgow Centre for Population Health; SCOFF; Fife Community Food Project; the Hidden Gardens; community food initiatives in Edinburgh; schools cookery challenge; Bridge Centre Motorcycle Project; Healthy Start
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: coeliac disease, cookery sessions, funding, healthy eating, Healthy Living initiatives, independent living skills, infant nutrition, policy, research, sustainability
Area of Work: Information provision
Back in Touch
a workshop-based conference sharing news and views on food and health with acquaintances old and new
(March 2008)
A report of the annual networking conference held on 11 October 2007 at Murrayfield Conference Centre, Edinburgh
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Publication category: Conferences and networking
Related topics: children, conference, discussion, independent living skills, parents and carers, policy, social enterprise
Area of Work: Networking and learning development