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.
Topic: inequalities
Food, Health and Homeless Initiative: Mapping Current Services
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
Fare Choice Issue 12
SCDP Small Grants; training events; Parliaments; Oxfam; Soil Association Food Futures; North Lanarkshire Federation of Food Coops; nutrition research news; Information Exchange; Scottish Food Advisory Committee; Soil Association
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: breakfast clubs, diet and nutrition, food co-op, Food Standards Agency, grants, inclusion, inequalities, parliaments, volunteers
Area of Work: Information provision
Fare Choice Issue 7
SCDP evaluation; health inequalities; healthy living centres; diabetes; school lunches; nutrition research news; Information Exchange; Inequalities Health and the New Scotland
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: children, diabetes, diet and nutrition, evaluation, Healthy Living initiatives, inequalities, parents and carers, school meals
Area of Work: Information provision
Fare Choice Issue 6
Bearing Fruit training; oral health; Well Down the Road (health inequalities, local communities and the future) proceedings report; nutrition research news; Information Exchange
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: affordability, breakfast, diet and nutrition, growing and gardening, inequalities, lone parents, low income, oral health, training and qualifications
Area of Work: Information provision
Fare Choice Issue 5
Bearing Fruit training; Healthier Scotland Green Paper; Teaching Bairns to Cook conference; Open Mouthed report; Starters SCDP Review; nutrition research news; Information Exchange; Inequality and the New Scotland
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: children, cooking, data and databases, diet and nutrition, Food Standards Agency, inequalities, training and qualifications
Area of Work: Information provision
Fare Choice Issue 3
SCDP small grants scheme; acronyms; co-operative retail societies; setting up a Food Standards Agency; nutrition research news; Information Exchange; Foodlinks Conference; Scottish Federation of Community Food Initiatives; Scottish Health Survey
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: co-operative, diet and nutrition, funding, inequalities, milk, rural, shops, surveys
Area of Work: Information provision
Report from international conference on overcoming health disparities
A short report on the experiences of the SCDP delegates representing food and health on Scottish islands at an international conference on overcoming health disparities held in Atlanta, USA.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Conferences and networking
Related topics: conference, inequalities, international, Islands, networking
Area of Work: Networking and learning development
Glasgow/Newcastle Food Policy and Practice Exchange
The report of a two-way exchange between people working with and within low-income communities on food and health inequalities in Glasgow and Newcastle
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Conferences and networking
Related topics: co-operative, diet and nutrition, England, evaluation, inequalities, local, study tours and exchanges, urban
Area of Work: Networking and learning development
Rich Pickings
Report of a conference organised to discuss new initiatives in tackling inequalities in diet and health and to allow participants to network and swap ideas.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Conferences and networking
Related topics: action planning, conference, diet and nutrition, Finland, Food Standards Agency, healthy eating, Healthy Living initiatives, inequalities, lay food workers, private sector, public sector, shops, supermarkets
Area of Work: Networking and learning development
Food Matters Issue 4
Edition 4 of our regular e-bulletin update on developments in food, health and homelessness in Scotland