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What’s cooking in Scotland?

A snapshot of community skills activities in 2017

(March 2018)

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.

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Fare Choice Issue 77

Express yourself

(February 2018)

February 2018 edition of our regular newsletter,  now published twice yearly, featuring updates from the CFHS team, food and health policy news and practice, and features from the community food and health sector.

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Strengthening the future for community retailers

A consolidation and reflection of research looking at the sustainability of community retailing

(January 2018)

This publication is an accessible summary of research carried for us out in 2016 by the University of Stirling’s Institute for Retail Studies. It looked at the sustainability of community retailing. It includes the research’s key finding and recommendations. Strengthening the future for community retailers (pdf)

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Staying power

A consolidation and reflection of research looking at the sustainability of community retailing

(January 2018)

This publication consolidates and reflects on the key findings and recommendations included in five pieces of research about community retailing, which were carried out between 2007 and 2016 It also considers notes and reports of a community retailing round table, and events and meetings held for community retailers and stakeholders. Staying power (pdf)

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Fare Choice Issue 76

Between friends

(October 2017)

October 2017 edition of our regular newsletter, featuring updates from the CFHS team, food and health policy news and practice, and features from the community food and health sector.

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Just getting on with it

How cooking skills courses in Scotland support people who are experiencing food insecurity

(June 2017)

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 …

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Fare Choice Issue 75

The principle ingredient

(June 2017)

June 2017 edition of our regular newsletter,  featuring updates from the CFHS team, food and health policy news and practice, and features from the community food and health sector. Includes a funding opportunities supplement to launch the CFHS development fund 2017. Fare Choice Issue 75 Funding opportunities supplement

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Fare Choice Issue 74

Listen hear!

(February 2017)

February 2017 edition of our regular newsletter,  featuring updates from the CFHS team, food and health policy news and practice, and features from the community food and health sector.

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What’s cooking in Scotland? Part Three

tools and ideas to help you critically appraise your cooking skills courses

(November 2016)

This guide is for anyone who runs, manages or commissions cooking skills courses for people within low-income communities or who are vulnerable. It will also be useful for those designing or running train the trainer cooking skills courses.

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Fare Choice Issue 73

Harvesting knowledge: gleaning experience

(October 2016)

October 2016 edition of our regular newsletter,  featuring updates from the CFHS team, food and health policy news and practice, and features from the community food and health sector.

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