This guide included ideas and suggestions about the right location for a stall, making the most of the produce being sold, encouraging sales and promoting a stall.
Topic: fruit and vegetables
Notes from roundtable discussion on community retailing in hospitals January 2010
Notes from a roundtable discussion on community retailing in hospital hosted by Community Food and Health (Scotland) on 14 January 2010
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Retailing and catering
Related topics: community retailing, food co-op, fruit and vegetables, social enterprise
Areas of Work: Community cafes and retailing, Networking and learning development
Summary of Scottish Grocers Federation healthy living pilot evaluation
Brief summary of the findings from the evaluation of the Scottish Grocers Federation healthy living pilot
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Retailing and catering
Related topics: evaluation, fruit and vegetables, Healthy Living initiatives, pilot, sales and marketing, shops, training and qualifications
Areas of Work: Community cafes and retailing, Research and evaluation
A guide to setting up a food co-op
A guide developed in partnership with West Lothian Council, West Lothian Health and Care Partnership and West Lothian Food and Health Development (WELFEHD) to support local communities to realise their idea of starting a community led food project (known as food co-ops in West Lothian). This guide will give you some food for thought and …
Publisher: West Lothian Food and Health Development
Publication category: Retailing and catering
Related topics: access, co-operative, community-led, diet and nutrition, food co-op, fruit and vegetables, local food, Lothians
Area of Work: Community cafes and retailing
Fare Choice special grants edition 2007
Special edition launching 2007 small grants scheme and featuring a selection of the work undertaken by the previous year’s grant recipients.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: community cafes, fruit and vegetables, funding, grants, healthy eating, policy, Scottish Diet Action Plan
Area of Work: Information provision
The CFHS Recipe Book
The poaChing, Frying, masHing and roaSting recipe book is a compilation of tried and tested recipes contributed by community food initiatives in Scotland to improve take up of a healthy diet by building skills in cooking and preparing food.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Cooking and growing
Related topics: cooking, food preparation, fruit and vegetables, health and safety, low income, recipes, shopping, weaning
Area of Work: Cookery skills
Fare Choice Issue 25
No Fare report; grants updates; Scottish islands conference; participatory appraisal training; SCOFF nutrition research; Forth Valley Food Links; Question Time; fruit and veg in Oakley; Common Agricultural Policy.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: diet and nutrition, Fife, Forth Valley, fruit and vegetables, grants, Healthy Living initiatives, Islands, lone parents, policy, supermarkets, tuck shops, welfare
Area of Work: Information provision
Fare Choice Issue 21
Growing Interest report; small grants distribution; school meals; SCOFF nutrition research; New Ways Healthy Living Centre; Sustain; health promoting schools; Cookwell.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: catering, cookery sessions, Food Standards Agency, food training, fruit and vegetables, growing and gardening, Healthy Living initiatives, policy, school meals, schools, young people
Area of Work: Information provision
Fare Choice Issue 19
Breakfast clubs; men’s health; SCOFF nutrition research; Rich Pickings; East Lothian Roots and Fruits; Health on Wheels; UK Food Poverty Project; European Food Safety Authority; information exchange.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: breakfast, breakfast clubs, food poverty, fruit and vegetables, grants, men, mobile, policy, schools
Area of Work: Information provision
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.