This report summarises feedback from organisations awarded funding from CFHS through a funding scheme run in summer 2011.
Retailing and catering
Evaluation – CFHS ‘summer promotion’ funding for community food retailers, 2011
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication categories: Business and project development, Retailing and catering
Related topics: evaluation, grants
Areas of Work: Community cafes and retailing, Funding, Research and evaluation
Retail in Rural Regions Final Report – Scotland
The final report, produced from a Scottish perspective, on the northern European transnational study into rural retailing.
Publishers: Community Retailing Network, Consumer Focus Scotland, European Regional Development Fund, Northern Periphery Programme
Publication categories: Policy and planning, Retailing and catering
Related topics: community retailing, European, remote, rural, shops, study tours and exchanges
Area of Work: Community cafes and retailing
Development of a produce supply chain between community growers, caterers, and retailers in Edinburgh
CFHS commissioned Blake Stevenson to carry out research into the feasibility of establishing a produce supply chain between community growers, caterers and retailers in Edinburgh.
Publishers: Blake Stevenson, Commissioned by CFHS
Publication categories: Cooking and growing, Retailing and catering
Related topics: catering, community retailing, food supply chain, growing and gardening, research
Areas of Work: Community cafes and retailing, Research and evaluation
Community Food Initiatives Retailing in Hospitals and Health Centres
This publication looks at the work of several community food initiatives that are, or have been, running fruit and vegetables in hospitals and other health service premises.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Retailing and catering
Related topics: case studies, fruit and vegetables, hospitals, social enterprise, volunteers
Area of Work: Community cafes and retailing
Food services for older people
This study was commissioned by Consumer Focus Scotland/CFHS to provide baseline information about the range and extent of food services for older people living in the community in Scotland. The research explored consumers’ views on these services and sought to address gaps in provision.
Publishers: Commissioned by CFHS, ODS Consulting
Publication categories: Policy and planning, Retailing and catering
Related topics: access, delivery, lunch clubs, older people, research, surveys
Areas of Work: Community cafes and retailing, Older people, Research and evaluation
A bite and a blether
Brings together material from six lunch clubs in different parts of the country most of which are run by older people for older people.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Retailing and catering
Related topics: case studies, food preparation, lunch clubs, older people, volunteers
Area of Work: Older people
The impact of investing small amounts of funding in community food and health organisations
A fact sheet that highlights the results of providing community food retailers with small amounts of funding to promote their activities and increase fruit and vegetable sales.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication categories: Business and project development, Retailing and catering
Areas of Work: Community cafes and retailing, Funding
Adding to the mix
This publication includes the experiences of ten community food initiatives. It looks at how and why they are working in partnership with the private sector, explores the benefits that working in this way can bring, and discusses the challenges that they have encountered.