Notes from a round table discussion to explore the issues around taking a more business-like approach when developing or setting up community shops or community food initiatives.
Topic: rural
Discussion on Community Retailing
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication categories: Business and project development, Retailing and catering
Related topics: business, co-operative, community retailing, food co-op, Islands, remote, rural, social enterprise
Areas of Work: Community cafes and retailing, Networking and learning development
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 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
Feeding the Interest
Discussion paper which considers the benefits of local food; identifies opportunities for development; highlights barriers and encourages action.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Policy and planning
Related topics: co-operative, environment, farming and city farms, food supply chain, local food, policy, rural
Growing Interest report
Report from a networking day held to coincide with the publication of Growing Interest.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Cooking and growing
Related topics: co-operative, community gardens, conference, farming and city farms, growing and gardening, mental health, organic, rural, schools
Food and Health on Scottish Islands
The report of a conference organised by the Scottish Community Diet Project to share information on food and health in the islands; discuss the barriers to healthier food access; examine the role of community action and identify ways of getting the message across.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Conferences and networking
Related topics: access, communication, community food activity, conference, health promotion, remote, rural, Scottish Diet Action Plan, transport
Area of Work: Networking and learning development
Regional Food and Health Strategy Seminar
The report of a seminar that explored the different approaches towards regional food and health strategies across Scotland and the support available for them.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Conferences and networking
Related topics: community planning, data and databases, rural, Scottish Diet Action Plan, Scottish Government, strategy, urban
Area of Work: Networking and learning development
Northern Exposure
The report of a study tour to the North of Scotland undertaken by volunteers from community food projects in the South of Scotland.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Conferences and networking
Related topics: breakfast clubs, community food activity, community retailing, cooking, Grampian, health promotion, Highlands, Islands, lunch clubs, mobile, organic, remote, rural, study tours and exchanges
Area of Work: Networking and learning development
The Finnish Experience
Report of the Scottish Community Diet Project’s study tour to the National Public Health Institute of Finland and North Karelia giving an insight into the participants’ thoughts of each visit and what it inspired them to do on their return.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Conferences and networking
Related topics: business, diet and nutrition, Finland, heart disease, low income, policy, rural, schools, smoking, study tours and exchanges
Area of Work: Networking and learning development
Retail in Rural Regions Final Report – Scotland
The final report, produced from a Scottish perspective, on the northern European transnational study into rural retailing.