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.
Topic: food poverty
All on one plate
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
Study tour to London
The study tour took place between 1 and 3 October 2013. Ten people took part in a busy two days, which included 10 different visits/meetings across London. The report provides an overview of the tour and the organisations we visited.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Policy and planning
Related topics: access, affordability, food poverty, older people, study tours and exchanges
Areas of Work: Food poverty and access, Networking and learning development, Older people
Fare Choice Issue 62
NHS Health Scotland; sustainability; food as an action focus; inequalities; food poverty
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: community food activity, food poverty, inequalities, policy, sustainability
Area of Work: Information provision
CFHS networking conference 2012: key themes from the table discussion
The CFHS annual networking conference took place at the Grand Central Hotel in Glasgow on Wednesday 7 November. On the right track? brought together everyone who has a role or interest in community food and health activity that addresses health inequalities in Scotland. The conference programme featured three separate parts: a discussion kicked off by Dr. Deirdre …
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Conferences and networking
Related topics: community food activity, conference, discussion, food poverty, inequalities, policy
Area of Work: Networking and learning development
Footing the bill or thinking ahead
Notes from a round table discussion held on 31 July on ‘constructive food and health policy and practice in the face of austerity’.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Policy and planning
Related topics: discussion, food poverty, inequalities, policy
Areas of Work: Food poverty and access, Networking and learning development
Focus on food services for older people
On 25 February Community Food and Health (Scotland) and Consumer Focus Scotland co-hosted a roundtable discussion looking at issues around older people’s access to affordable healthy food of their choice.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Policy and planning
Related topics: access, affordability, choice, discussion, food poverty, low income, older people
Areas of Work: Food poverty and access, Networking and learning development, Older people
Food Matters Issue 4
Edition 4 of our regular e-bulletin update on developments in food, health and homelessness in Scotland
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: diet and nutrition, food poverty, food training, homelessness, inclusion, independent living skills, inequalities
Dysart Food and Health Initiative
An evaluation of a project using participatory appraisal methods to explore the opportunities for increasing healthy eating choices in the Dysart regeneration area in Fife.
Publisher: Vikki Hilton
Publication category: Policy and planning
Related topics: access, action planning, choice, evaluation, Fife, food poverty, healthy eating, participatory appraisal
Areas of Work: Food poverty and access, Research and evaluation
Fare Choice Issue 35
Good Food in Tackling Homelessness; SCOFF nutrition research; Question Time; Healthy Valleys; Harvest for Health; Hidden Gardens.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: catering, diet and nutrition, food poverty, grants, health workers, homelessness, hospitals, older people, parliaments, policy, Scottish Diet Action Plan, social enterprise
Area of Work: Information provision
Fare Choice Issue 66
Scottish Older People’s Taskforce; REHIS Elementary Food and Health course; foodwork in working families; exploring how community food initiatives are responding to the need for emergency food aid. This issue also includes an insert launching our annual development fund and outlining what last year’s recipients of the fund have been up to.