With funding from CFHS, Community Organisation for Race Equality (CORE) has produced a case study on its World Cafe. It covers the background and history of the World Cafe, the essential elements of the model, the role of volunteers, the development of healthy recipes and how the cafe works to build links between individuals and …
Topic: volunteers
World Cafe Case Study
Publisher: Community Organisation for Race Equality
Publication category: Retailing and catering
Related topics: case studies, catering, community cafes, minority ethnic, multi-cultural, volunteers
Areas of Work: Community cafes and retailing, Funding
The Vital Ingredient
This publication highlights examples of volunteering in community food and health work and demonstrates the value of volunteering for the volunteers and the community food initiatives.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Business and project development
Related topics: case studies, volunteers
Strengthening food work across minority ethnic communities
Notes from a meeting held in Edinburgh to look at what is needed to further support food work across minority ethnic communities in Scotland.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Policy and planning
Related topics: funding, minority ethnic, networking, pilot, practice, training and qualifications, volunteers
Areas of Work: Minority ethnic communities, Networking and learning development
Community Food Initiatives Retailing in Hospitals and Health Centres
This publication looks at the work of several community food initiatives that are, or have been, running fruit and vegetables in hospitals and other health service premises.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Retailing and catering
Related topics: case studies, fruit and vegetables, hospitals, social enterprise, volunteers
Area of Work: Community cafes and retailing
Fare Choice Issue 56
healthyliving award; small grants scheme; food and health activity with older people; volunteering and community food and health initiatives
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: grants, older people, volunteers
Area of Work: Information provision
A bite and a blether
Brings together material from six lunch clubs in different parts of the country most of which are run by older people for older people.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Retailing and catering
Related topics: case studies, food preparation, lunch clubs, older people, volunteers
Area of Work: Older people
Study tours September 2008
In September 2008 we ran two tours to organisations in Aberdeen and Edinburgh delivering services for people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness and operating as social enterprise.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Conferences and networking
Related topics: cookery sessions, Edinburgh, Grampian, homelessness, partnership, social enterprise, study tours and exchanges, volunteers
Areas of Work: Networking and learning development, Social enterprise
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 36
2006 small grant scheme; Minding Their Own Business publication; SCOFF nutrition research; Question Time; Munch Crunch; Community Food Initiatives North East; Glasgow Children’s Orchard
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: box scheme, business, cooking, Grampian, older people, parliaments, policy, schools, Scottish Diet Action Plan, volunteers
Area of Work: Information provision
Community cafe learning event report
This CFHS factsheet reports on three community cafe learning visits that took place between November 2014 and February 2015.