An interesting report on take-aways earlier in the summer. The study looked at nutritional information available to consumers using the country’s leading take-away chains. It also looked at what information consumers would expect and how they would use it.
Topic: inclusion
Take-away Health
Publisher: Consumer Focus
Publication category: Retailing and catering
Related topics: diet and nutrition, fast food and takeaways, inclusion
Area of Work: Community cafes and retailing
Report from national food discussion seminar
On 18 March 2008 CFHS facilitated a national seminar to ensure that the experience and understanding of low-income communities is included in the development of a National Food Policy for Scotland. The report from that seminar has been submitted to the Scottish Government in response to the discussion paper ‘Choosing the Right Ingredients: The Future …
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Policy and planning
Related topics: discussion, homelessness, inclusion, inequalities, low income, policy, Scottish Government
Areas of Work: Food poverty and access, Networking and learning development
Food Matters Issue 5
Edition 5 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: capacity building, funding, homelessness, inclusion, independent living skills, participatory appraisal
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
The use of food in promoting health, wellbeing and the development of independent living skills for people experiencing homelessness
Roundtable discussion notes.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Policy and planning
Related topics: discussion, homelessness, inclusion, independent living skills, mapping exercise, Scottish Government
Food, Health and Homeless Initiative: Mapping Current Services
In September 2006, the Food, Health and Homelessness Initiative at CFHS commissioned Blake Stevenson to undertake a baseline study to map the nature, scope/scale and location of food, health and homeless projects, programmes and initiatives in Scotland. Includes Edinburgh Cyrenians and the Salvation Army.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Policy and planning
Related topics: homelessness, inclusion, independent living skills, inequalities, mapping exercise, research, soup kitchen, surveys
Area of Work: Research and evaluation
Breakfast Clubs… More of a Head Start
Provides an insight into the process of developing a breakfast club at every stage from set-up to sustainability in current policy climate. Poses important questions and shares practical solutions to problems that others have encountered
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication categories: Children and young people, Retailing and catering
Related topics: affordability, breakfast clubs, children, health and safety, inclusion, schools, volunteers
Areas of Work: Community cafes and retailing, Families with children, Food poverty and access
Fare Choice Issue 32
Community cafes; SCOFF nutrition research; Moray Food and Health; Islay Food Forum; Healthways Healthy Living Centre; Question Time; Developing Communities Fund.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: access, community cafes, diet and nutrition, Edinburgh, Fife, Food Standards Agency, grants, Healthy Living initiatives, Highlands, inclusion, policy, rural
Area of Work: Information provision
Fare Choice Issue 15
Healthy Living Centres; Scottish and UK Parliaments; Snack Attack; Retail Development Survey; Western Isles, Orkney, Shetland, Skye; gender differences in food consumption; Information Exchange
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: breakfast clubs, cookery sessions, diet and nutrition, Healthy Living initiatives, inclusion, Islands, oral health, parliaments, supermarkets
Area of Work: Information provision
Food Matters Issue 7
Edition 7 of our e-bulletin update on food, health and homelessness in Scotland.