June 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. Includes a funding opportunities supplement to launch the CFHS development fund 2017. Fare Choice Issue 75 Funding opportunities supplement
Topic: inclusion
Fare Choice Issue 75
Publishers: Community Food and Health (Scotland), NHS Health Scotland
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: community cafes, community food activity, cookery sessions, funding, growing and gardening, inclusion, inequalities, policy
Area of Work: Information provision
Fare Choice Issue 73
October 2016 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, inclusion, policy
Area of Work: Information provision
Healthy diet and lifestyle for ethnic minority older people
The Older People Services Development project produced this healthy eating resource, with support from NHS Health Scotland, in response to an extensive consultation that shows ethnic minority older people can face barriers to accessing information on diet and lifestyle.
Publisher: Equality Scotland
Publication category: Cooking and growing
Related topics: access, diet and nutrition, healthy eating, inclusion, older people
Areas of Work: Minority ethnic communities, Older people
Making the case
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 …
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
Far reaching fare
This publication looks at the role that community initiatives can play in building reach into policy and practice around food access.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Policy and planning
Related topics: case studies, community food activity, inclusion, inequalities, policy
Area of Work: Food poverty and access
Cooking up connections
This publication gives a flavour of what community food initiatives and disability learning support providers are doing to offer adults with learning disabilities access to food and health activities in order to improve their health and wellbeing.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication categories: Cooking and growing, Policy and planning
Related topics: case studies, community food activity, diet and nutrition, inclusion, learning disabilities, training and qualifications
Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Food and nutrition training, Learning disability
Food, health and homelessness capacity building fund
Findings from evaluations of the activities of some of the recipients of the CFHS food, health and homelessness capacity building fund
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Policy and planning
Related topics: capacity building, homelessness, inclusion, training and qualifications
Area of Work: Funding
Just getting on with it
Practitioners who run cooking skills courses have told us that they have worked with course participants who may be experiencing food insecurity and were struggling to feed themselves and their families. We wanted to explore this issue further by undertaking a short project to find out: what methods community cooking course practitioners currently use to support those …