Special edition launching the 2011 small grants scheme and featuring a selection of the work undertaken by the previous year’s grant recipients
Publications
Fare Choice special grants edition 2011
(June 2011)
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: funding, grants
Area of Work: Information provision
Healthy Eating Healthy Living
A report on the Healthy Eating Healthy Living project for adults with learning disabilities in 6 Scottish pilot sites
(June 2011)
This Scottish Government funded Healthy Eating, Healthy Living Project developed a multi-media educational pack consisting of 26 sessions on healthy eating for adults with learning disabilities. This included five practical …
Publication categories: Business and project development, Cooking and growing
Related topics: cookery sessions, learning disabilities
Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Learning disability
Food services for older people
(June 2011)
This study was commissioned by Consumer Focus Scotland/CFHS to provide baseline information about the range and extent of food services for older people living in the community in Scotland. The …
Publication categories: Policy and planning, Retailing and catering
Related topics: access, delivery, lunch clubs, older people, research, surveys
Areas of Work: Community cafes and retailing, Older people, Research and evaluation
Fare Choice Issue 56
healthy, fresh and local
(June 2011)
healthyliving award; small grants scheme; food and health activity with older people; volunteering and community food and health initiatives
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: grants, older people, volunteers
Area of Work: Information provision
Orchards and Grow Your Own Census Scotland
(June 2011)
The Commonwealth Orchard has launched its report of a census of community orchards and grow your own projects carried out March 2011. The census includes comments from a range of …
Publication category: Cooking and growing
Related topics: children, growing and gardening
A bite and a blether
(June 2011)
Brings together material from six lunch clubs in different parts of the country most of which are run by older people for older people.
Publication category: Retailing and catering
Related topics: case studies, food preparation, lunch clubs, older people, volunteers
Area of Work: Older people
What is the impact of the CFHS small grants scheme?
(May 2011)
Demonstrates the reach and impact of the scheme over a three year period.
Publication category: Business and project development
Areas of Work: Funding, Research and evaluation
CFHS learning and development programme evaluation
(June 2011)
Looks at what impact this programme had on groups taking part.
Publication category: Business and project development
Areas of Work: Networking and learning development, Research and evaluation

Flying off the shelves
a guide for community food retailers to help them sell more fruit and vegetables
(September 2011)
This guide included ideas and suggestions about the right location for a stall, making the most of the produce being sold, encouraging sales and promoting a stall.
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Publication category: Retailing and catering
Related topics: community retailing, fruit and vegetables, sales and marketing
Area of Work: Community cafes and retailing