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.
Topic: evaluation
Fare Choice Issue 77
Publishers: Community Food and Health (Scotland), NHS Health Scotland
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
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)
Publishers: Community Food and Health (Scotland), NHS Health Scotland
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
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.
Publishers: Community Food and Health (Scotland), NHS Health Scotland
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: community cafes, community food activity, conference, cookery sessions, diet and nutrition, evaluation, policy
Area of Work: Information provision
Fare Choice Issue 74
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.
Publishers: Community Food and Health (Scotland), NHS Health Scotland
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
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.
Publishers: Community Food and Health (Scotland), NHs, NHS Health Scotland
Publication category: Cooking and growing
Related topics: community food activity, cookery sessions, cooking, evaluation, research
Area of Work: Cookery skills
A review of practical cooking skills activities which focus on promoting an affordable healthy balanced diet for adults, young people and their families within low-income communities in Scotland
In 2014 Community Food and Health Scotland/NHS Health Scotland commissioned a realist review of community cooking skills activities run by community initiatives and agencies. The review planned to explore issues such as how the social circumstances of participants and the approach of the cooking skills activities can affect the outcomes. The researchers analysed 81 sets …
Publishers: Avril Blamey and Associates, Commissioned by CFHS, NHS Health Scotland
Publication category: Cooking and growing
Related topics: community food activity, cookery sessions, cooking, evaluation, research
Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Research and evaluation
Second helpings
Following on from the Mind the Menu event in 2012, Second Helpings offered a further opportunity for organisations working in the field to network and share their practice.
Publishers: Community Food and Health (Scotland), NHS Health Scotland
Publication category: Conferences and networking
Related topics: community food activity, conference, evaluation, mental health, networking
Areas of Work: Mental health and wellbeing, Networking and learning development
Chopping and changing
This report is for anyone who runs, manages or commissions cooking skills courses. It uses evidence from a realist self-evaluation study group to show the impact of cooking skills courses on people who are affected by health inequalities: vulnerable people and parents managing on a low income.