February 2018 edition of our regular newsletter, now published twice yearly, featuring updates from the CFHS team, food and health policy news and practice, and features from the community food and health sector.
Publications
Fare Choice Issue 77
Express yourself
(February 2018)
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: community cafes, community food activity, conference, cookery sessions, evaluation, policy
Area of Work: Information provision
Strengthening the future for community retailers
A consolidation and reflection of research looking at the sustainability of community retailing
(January 2018)
This publication is an accessible summary of research carried for us out in 2016 by the University of Stirling’s Institute for Retail Studies. It looked at the sustainability of community retailing. It includes the research’s key finding and recommendations. Strengthening the future for community retailers (pdf)
Publication category: Retailing and catering
Related topics: community food activity, community retailing, evaluation, research
Area of Work: Community cafes and retailing
Fare Choice Issue 76
Between friends
(October 2017)
October 2017 edition of our regular newsletter, featuring updates from the CFHS team, food and health policy news and practice, and features from the community food and health sector.
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: community cafes, community food activity, conference, cookery sessions, diet and nutrition, evaluation, policy
Area of Work: Information provision
Just getting on with it
How cooking skills courses in Scotland support people who are experiencing food insecurity
(June 2017)
Practitioners who run cooking skills courses have told us that they have worked with course participants who may be experiencing food insecurity and were struggling to feed themselves and their families. We wanted to explore this issue further by undertaking a short project to find out: what methods community cooking course practitioners currently use to support those …
Publication category: Cooking and growing
Related topics: case studies, community food activity, cookery sessions, food poverty, inclusion, low income, research
Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Food poverty and access
Fare Choice Issue 75
The principle ingredient
(June 2017)
June 2017 edition of our regular newsletter, featuring updates from the CFHS team, food and health policy news and practice, and features from the community food and health sector. Includes a funding opportunities supplement to launch the CFHS development fund 2017. Fare Choice Issue 75 Funding opportunities supplement
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: community cafes, community food activity, cookery sessions, funding, growing and gardening, inclusion, inequalities, policy
Area of Work: Information provision
Fare Choice Issue 74
Listen hear!
(February 2017)
February 2017 edition of our regular newsletter, featuring updates from the CFHS team, food and health policy news and practice, and features from the community food and health sector.
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: community cafes, community food activity, conference, cookery sessions, evaluation, food poverty, policy, research
Area of Work: Information provision
What’s cooking in Scotland? Part Three
tools and ideas to help you critically appraise your cooking skills courses
(November 2016)
This guide is for anyone who runs, manages or commissions cooking skills courses for people within low-income communities or who are vulnerable. It will also be useful for those designing or running train the trainer cooking skills courses.
Publication category: Cooking and growing
Related topics: community food activity, cookery sessions, cooking, evaluation, research
Area of Work: Cookery skills
Fare Choice Issue 73
Harvesting knowledge: gleaning experience
(October 2016)
October 2016 edition of our regular newsletter, featuring updates from the CFHS team, food and health policy news and practice, and features from the community food and health sector.
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: community cafes, community food activity, conference, cookery sessions, inclusion, policy
Area of Work: Information provision
What’s cooking in Scotland?
A snapshot of community skills activities in 2017
(March 2018)
Community Food and Health (Scotland) ran a short online survey during the summer of 2017 to get a snapshot of cooking skills activities for people living on low incomes in Scotland during that year. This short report presents the findings from this survey.
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Publication category: Cooking and growing
Related topics: community food activity, cookery sessions, low income, survey
Area of Work: Cookery skills