This publication focuses on the work of community food initiatives working with older people and will be of use to community food initiatives in building and articulating the case for their work with older people and those considering developing work in this area. It gives an overview of the needs, contexts and strategies engaged in developing food work with …
Topic: evaluation
Making the case
Publishers: Community Food and Health (Scotland), NHS Health Scotland
Publication category: Business and project development
Related topics: diet and nutrition, evaluation, food poverty, inclusion, older people
Areas of Work: Older people, Research and evaluation
The contribution of community food initiatives to national food and health programmes (2013)
This CFHS fact sheet provides an overview of the work undertaken by initiatives funded by CFHS in 2013 to build on their current work with one or more of the Scottish Government food and health programmes.
Publishers: Community Food and Health (Scotland), NHS Health Scotland
Publication category: Business and project development
Related topics: community food activity, evaluation, funding, grants
Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Funding
Learning and development programme 2013: feedback from participants
This CFHS fact sheet examines the feedback from the evaluations of participants on the 2013/2014 learning and development programme.
Publishers: Community Food and Health (Scotland), NHS Health Scotland
Publication categories: Business and project development, Professional development
Related topics: community food activity, evaluation, training and qualifications
Areas of Work: Food and nutrition training, Networking and learning development
The contribution of community food initiatives to national food and health programmes
In 2012, Community Food and Health (Scotland) provided funding totalling £15,000 for six community food initiatives to build on their current work with one or more of the Scottish Government food and health programmes. This factsheet provides an overview of the work undertaken by the initiatives.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Business and project development
Related topics: community food activity, evaluation, funding, grants
Areas of Work: Community cafes and retailing, Cookery skills, Food and nutrition training, Food poverty and access, Funding
Evaluation of CHANGES Eat Well – Keep Well programme
In 2012-13 CFHS supported CHANGES Community Health Project to carry out a stage one evaluation of its Eat Well- Keep Active programme, as part of its work on the impact of food work on mental health and wellbeing. The evaluation was carried out by SCPHRP (Scottish Collaboration for Public Health Research and Policy) and concludes that, …
Publisher: Scottish Collaboration for Public Health Research and Policy
Publication category: Business and project development
Related topics: community food activity, evaluation, mental health, training and qualifications
Area of Work: Mental health and wellbeing
All on one plate
Community Food and Health (Scotland) hosted a free national networking conference in October 2013. The event was for people keen to share experience, evidence, hopes and concerns on all aspects of food, inequality and social justice. The report gives background information about the conference, conference content and the results from an online evaluation survey.
Publishers: Community Food and Health (Scotland), NHS Health Scotland
Publication category: Conferences and networking
Related topics: community food activity, conference, evaluation, food poverty, networking
Area of Work: Networking and learning development
Evaluation of the impact of the Scottish Grocers Federation Healthy Living Programme on community retailers
This research looks at the impact of the Scottish Grocers Healthy Living Programme’s training and resources on community retailers selling fruit and vegetables. The research highlights the benefits of both the training and resources, but also their limitations. It also makes some recommendations about how else the programme could support community retailers.
Publishers: Commissioned by CFHS, Traci Leven Research
Publication categories: Business and project development, Retailing and catering
Related topics: community food activity, community retailing, evaluation, training and qualifications
Areas of Work: Community cafes and retailing, Research and evaluation
Considering economic evidence? Here is some more food for thought …
CFHS fact sheet that explores the use of economic evidence in the third sector.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Business and project development
Related topics: evaluation, evidence, social enterprise, third sector
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
Older people eat well: literature review
In early 2014, CFHS worked with Evaluation Support Scotland to commission a short evidence review of the literature on the ways in which the third sector supports older people to eat well. This has now been published as part of the ESS ‘Stitch in Time’ programme. The starting point for the review was the nested …