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.
Topic: case studies
Adding to the mix
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication categories: Business and project development, Retailing and catering
Related topics: case studies, partnership, private sector
Area of Work: Community cafes and retailing
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
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
Hard to Stomach
Recommendations sought by the Scottish Government from a working group on food access and affordability, supported by CFHS, were sent to Ministers shortly before the recent election campaign. The report produced by the group involved representatives from community and voluntary organisations in Edinburgh, Lanarkshire, Fife and Dumfries and Galloway.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Policy and planning
Related topics: access, affordability, case studies, community food activity, discussion, policy
Area of Work: Food poverty and access
Report on research into community cafes in Scotland
This research report on community cafes, produced for CFHS by Clarity, looks in detail at the operation and management of 12 community cafes from across Scotland.
Publishers: Clarity, Commissioned by CFHS
Publication category: Retailing and catering
Related topics: capacity building, case studies, community cafes, mapping exercise, outcomes, research
Areas of Work: Community cafes and retailing, Research and evaluation
Healthy Living Tastes Better
Through its work CFHS was aware that a number of housing associations were involved in delivering or supporting community food and health work. This publication showcases some examples of housing associations involved in community food and health work.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Retailing and catering
Related topics: case studies, community retailing, food co-op, housing associations
Area of Work: Community cafes and retailing
TV dinners
This factsheet provides examples of how three youth groups were inspired by TV formats to create a friendly competitive environment to teach cookery skills.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication categories: Children and young people, Cooking and growing
Related topics: case studies, cookery sessions, cooking, young people
Area of Work: Cookery skills
Not only … but also
Following on from last year’s popular study looking at the impact of community food initiatives on national outcomes, the experience of a number of local projects in the design and delivery of local outcomes has been compiled on behalf of CFHS by the Scottish Community Development Centre. This publication illustrates and analyses community engagement with …