A report of the annual networking conference held on 11 October 2007 at Murrayfield Conference Centre, Edinburgh
Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Back in Touch
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
Food Matters Issue 5
Edition 5 of our regular e-bulletin update on developments in food, health and homelessness in Scotland.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: capacity building, funding, homelessness, inclusion, independent living skills, participatory appraisal
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
A taste for independence
This guide discusses the experiences of 21 organisations throughout Scotland who work with a range of vulnerable groups. All these groups used food activities such as cooking, food shopping and budgeting to help people develop their independent living skills
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Business and project development
Related topics: homelessness, independent living skills, learning disabilities, mental health
Area of Work: Learning disability
0-5 children and parents including infant nutrition
Notes from a roundtable discussion looking at what approaches are being developed to address health inequalities through food from a very early age.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Children and young people
Related topics: baby feeding, discussion, early years, infant nutrition, pregnancy and maternal health, weaning
Areas of Work: Families with children, Networking and learning development
Fare Choice Issue 41
Glasgow Centre for Population Health; SCOFF; Fife Community Food Project; the Hidden Gardens; community food initiatives in Edinburgh; schools cookery challenge; Bridge Centre Motorcycle Project; Healthy Start
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: coeliac disease, cookery sessions, funding, healthy eating, Healthy Living initiatives, independent living skills, infant nutrition, policy, research, sustainability
Area of Work: Information provision
Fare Choice Issue 40
Fruitful Participation; Stakeholders Perspectives on the Diet Action Plan Review; Shetland visit; food, health and homelessness; SCOFF; East Lothian Roots and Fruits celebrate 10 years
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: choice, food co-op, grants, health promotion, healthy eating, homelessness, mobile, participatory appraisal, policy, sales and marketing, Scottish Diet Action Plan
Area of Work: Information provision
Food Matters Issue 4
Edition 4 of our regular e-bulletin update on developments in food, health and homelessness in Scotland
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: diet and nutrition, food poverty, food training, homelessness, inclusion, independent living skills, inequalities
Report from national food discussion seminar
On 18 March 2008 CFHS facilitated a national seminar to ensure that the experience and understanding of low-income communities is included in the development of a National Food Policy for Scotland. The report from that seminar has been submitted to the Scottish Government in response to the discussion paper ‘Choosing the Right Ingredients: The Future …