In October 2012 Consilium Research and Consultancy Limited was commissioned by CFHS to explore the impact of different approaches to delivering community cookery skills activities on families. The research aims to identify and analyse the sustainable outcomes for families engaging in three approaches to delivering cooking courses.
Topic: parents and carers
The impact of community cookery skills activities on families – a comparison between three different approaches
Publishers: Commissioned by CFHS, Consilium Research and Consultancy
Publication categories: Cooking and growing, Policy and planning
Related topics: cookery sessions, families, parents and carers, research, young people
Areas of Work: Families with children, Research and evaluation
Strengthening food work across ethnic minority communities: a focus on maternal and infant nutrition
This mapping exercise was carried out to provide a snapshot of voluntary and community organisations’ activity in relation to maternal and infant nutrition across ethnic minority communities in Scotland.
Publishers: BEMIS Scotland, Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication categories: Children and young people, Policy and planning
Related topics: baby feeding, children, diet and nutrition, mapping exercise, minority ethnic, parents and carers, women and mothers
Areas of Work: Families with children, Minority ethnic communities
From the ground up
This report represents a snapshot of community and voluntary sector activity that supported maternal and infant nutrition at a particular point in time – spring 2012.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication categories: Children and young people, Policy and planning
Related topics: baby feeding, case studies, children, diet and nutrition, parents and carers, policy, women and mothers
Area of Work: Families with children
Early Years Self-evaluation Collaborative Stage Two Interim report
This report gives an account of how the Early Year Self-evaluation Collaborative has continued to embed evaluation systems into its work with parents and children. Five projects completed Stage Two and have written up individual evaluation reports that describe how they are demonstrating the impact of their work.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication categories: Business and project development, Children and young people
Related topics: children, collaboration, early years, evaluation, outcomes, parents and carers
Areas of Work: Families with children, Research and evaluation
Back in Touch
A report of the annual networking conference held on 11 October 2007 at Murrayfield Conference Centre, Edinburgh
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Conferences and networking
Related topics: children, conference, discussion, independent living skills, parents and carers, policy, social enterprise
Area of Work: Networking and learning development
Fare Choice Issue 43
National Food Policy; CFHS small grant scheme; Whole-school approaches to food education in Ireland; Scottish Grocers Federation Healthy Living programme; Burnfoot Community School; Planting to Plate; Food for Tot
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: children, growing and gardening, Healthy Living initiatives, homelessness, parents and carers, policy, schools
Area of Work: Information provision
Fare Choice Issue 42
National Food Policy for Scotland; Back in Touch; Taste for Independence; food, health and homelessness; Cyrenians Farm
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: capacity building, community cafes, evaluation, farming and city farms, food training, healthy eating, parents and carers, policy
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
The impact of cooking courses on families
This short report provides a summary of research commissioned by CFHS that studied the impact of cooking skills on families.