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.
Topic: cookery sessions
What’s Cooking in Scotland? Part Two
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
Cooking in the Community in 5 Easy Steps
This manual has been developed by Community Food Workers in Fife, and is a reflection of their shared experiences. It is intended to support organisations and their workers, who seek to promote healthy lifestyles within their local community through practical food activities.
Publisher: Fife Community Food Project
Publication category: Cooking and growing
Related topics: community food workers, cookery sessions, food preparation, healthy eating
Area of Work: Cookery skills
Evaluation of Fife Community Kitchen
In November 2011, NHS Fife commissioned Blake Stevenson Ltd to evaluate Fife’s Community Kitchen, located at Adam Smith’s College’s Levenmouth campus. The report, executive summary and appendices are included.
Publishers: Blake Stevenson, Commissioned by CFHS
Publication category: Cooking and growing
Related topics: community food activity, cookery sessions, evaluation, Fife, food preparation, research
Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Research and evaluation
Healthy Eating Healthy Living
This Scottish Government funded Healthy Eating, Healthy Living Project developed a multi-media educational pack consisting of 26 sessions on healthy eating for adults with learning disabilities. This included five practical cookery sessions. A small team supported six pilot sites in Greater Glasgow and Tayside to deliver the pack and this report describes how the programme …
Publisher: Glasgow City CHP South Sector Learning Disability Team Healthy Living Project
Publication categories: Business and project development, Cooking and growing
Related topics: cookery sessions, learning disabilities
Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Learning disability
How to get beyond smoothies
This booklet features tips and ideas gathered from a CFHS youth, food and health networking event that focused on work with a range of young people.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication categories: Children and young people, Cooking and growing
Related topics: cookery sessions, cooking, growing and gardening, healthy eating, tuck shops, young people
Area of Work: Food and nutrition training
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
North Glasgow Youth Food Guidelines and Healthy Eating Toolkit
Following consultation with young people in the North Glasgow area, these guidelines and healthy eating toolkit were developed. As well as advice for clubs on what they can do to improve the availability of healthier food in youth clubs, the guidelines include ideas on how to run healthy eating, growing, and cookery activities, with ideas …
Publisher: North Glasgow Community Food Initiative
Publication categories: Children and young people, Cooking and growing
Related topics: cookery sessions, Glasgow, recipes, tuck shops, young people
Area of Work: Cookery skills
Healthy Cooking in the Community
This resource has been developed by North Ayrshire Community Food Workers to enable the delivery of individual workshops or sessions to community groups. It is a comprehensive guide to using the Recipe Book, Munch Crunch 2: Recipes for Change.
Publisher: NHS Ayrshire and Arran
Publication category: Cooking and growing
Related topics: Ayrshire, community food workers, cookery sessions, cooking, healthy eating, recipes, shopping
Area of Work: Cookery skills
Micro funding for work around older people, health and wellbeing
A report on the work undertaken by micro funding recipients and findings from a learning event.