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 …
Topic: low income
Just getting on with it
Publishers: Community Food and Health (Scotland), NHS Health Scotland
Related topics: case studies, community food activity, cookery sessions, food poverty, inclusion, low income, research
The new REHIS Elementary Cooking Skills Course
In 2013 the Royal Environmental Health Institute of Scotland (REHIS) developed a new short accredited cooking course. CFHS supported the availability of this course by providing funding to 13 groups and agencies to register with REHIS and deliver the course in low-income communities. This report provides a summary of the views of trainers and describes …
Publishers: Community Food and Health (Scotland), NHS Health Scotland
Publication category: Cooking and growing
Related topics: community food activity, cookery sessions, funding, low income, training and qualifications
Area of Work: Cookery skills
Fare Choice Issue 55
Food practices among low-income mothers with young children; community food initiatives tackling food poverty in Ireland; young people, food and health; Healthy Living Tastes Better
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: babies, disadvantaged communities, early years, food training, low income, minority ethnic, women and mothers, young people
Short introduction to training the trainers – healthy cookery courses
This fact sheet summarises information gathered from across Scotland on activities that ‘train the trainers’ to deliver healthy cookery and food preparation skills in low-income communities.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication categories: Cooking and growing, Professional development
Related topics: cooking, diet and nutrition, food preparation, food training, healthy eating, low income, trainers
Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Food and nutrition training, 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
Fare Choice special grants edition 2009
Special edition launching the CFHS 2009 small grant scheme
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: access, funding, grants, healthy eating, low income, policy
Fare Choice special grants edition 2008
Special edition launching the 2008 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: access, affordability, funding, grants, healthy eating, inequalities, low income, Scottish Diet Action Plan
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
What’s cooking in Scotland?
Community Food and Health (Scotland) ran a short online survey during the summer of 2017 to get a snapshot of cooking skills activities for people living on low incomes in Scotland during that year. This short report presents the findings from this survey.