This report reflects a short programme of work to investigate the impact and influence of community food intiatives in relation to maternal and infant nutrition.
Topic: case studies
Building blocks and baby steps
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication categories: Children and young people, Policy and planning
Related topics: baby feeding, case studies, children, community food activity, diet and nutrition, early years, policy, women and mothers
Area of Work: Families with children
Far reaching fare
This publication looks at the role that community initiatives can play in building reach into policy and practice around food access.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Policy and planning
Related topics: case studies, community food activity, inclusion, inequalities, policy
Area of Work: Food poverty and access
Cooking up connections
This publication gives a flavour of what community food initiatives and disability learning support providers are doing to offer adults with learning disabilities access to food and health activities in order to improve their health and wellbeing.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication categories: Cooking and growing, Policy and planning
Related topics: case studies, community food activity, diet and nutrition, inclusion, learning disabilities, training and qualifications
Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Food and nutrition training, Learning disability
From the ground up
This report represents a snapshot of community and voluntary sector activity that supported maternal and infant nutrition at a particular point in time – spring 2012.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication categories: Children and young people, Policy and planning
Related topics: baby feeding, case studies, children, diet and nutrition, parents and carers, policy, women and mothers
Area of Work: Families with children
Shared tastes and common values
Exploring Scotland’s past, current and potential future relationship between co-operation, food and health.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Retailing and catering
Related topics: case studies, community food activity, community retailing, food co-op, social enterprise
Areas of Work: Community cafes and retailing, Social enterprise
What’s Cooking in Scotland? Part Two
This publication gathers information from policies, research, and community food initiatives in Scotland to find out what difference community cookery makes to people in low-income communities.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Cooking and growing
Related topics: case studies, cookery sessions
Area of Work: Cookery skills
What’s Cooking in Scotland? Part One
This publication is based on the experiences of community groups and agencies throughout Scotland and shows how they have addressed some of the issues that groups have concerns about when planning to set up and deliver cookery sessions.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Cooking and growing
Related topics: case studies, cookery sessions
Area of Work: Cookery skills
World Cafe Case Study
With funding from CFHS, Community Organisation for Race Equality (CORE) has produced a case study on its World Cafe. It covers the background and history of the World Cafe, the essential elements of the model, the role of volunteers, the development of healthy recipes and how the cafe works to build links between individuals and …
Publisher: Community Organisation for Race Equality
Publication category: Retailing and catering
Related topics: case studies, catering, community cafes, minority ethnic, multi-cultural, volunteers
Areas of Work: Community cafes and retailing, Funding
The Vital Ingredient
This publication highlights examples of volunteering in community food and health work and demonstrates the value of volunteering for the volunteers and the community food initiatives.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Business and project development
Related topics: case studies, volunteers
Just getting on with it
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 …