CWIN in partnership with NHS Health Scotland and Community Food and Health (Scotland) took part in community-led research into food security. They explored participants’perceptions of food security (eating well) and how to address food insecurity.
NHS Health Scotland
Food Security for All – Community-Led Research
Publishers: Central & West Integration Network, Community Food and Health (Scotland), NHS Health Scotland
Publication category: Food security
Related topics: community-led, food insecurity, research
Areas of Work: Food poverty and access, Research and evaluation
It’s no Gordon Ramsay
This research was conducted a by a group of community participant researchers exploring the experience of food security and insecurity and how this was reflected in the choices and attitudes of individuals in their community. It was funded by The work is an ideographic study that applies the principles of Participant Action Research (PAR) and …
Publishers: Borders Healthy Living Network, Community Food and Health (Scotland), NHS Health Scotland
Publication category: Food security
Related topics: community-led, food insecurity, men, research, women and mothers
Community Led – Good Food Research
This report describes an NHS-funded/CFHS-supported, community-led research project that explores the relevance of the issue of ‘food security’ to a range of adults, with different life experiences and current life circumstances who live in the area.
Publishers: Community Food and Health (Scotland), Linwood Community Development Trust, NHS Health Scotland
Publication category: Food security
Related topics: community-led, food insecurity, food poverty, research
Areas of Work: Food poverty and access, Research and evaluation
Fare Choice Issue 81
This is our newest edition Fare Choice 81 – published March 2020, featuring updates from the CFHS team, food and health policy news and news from the community food and health sector. Farechoice Newsletter 81-March 2020
Publishers: Community Food and Health (Scotland), NHS Health Scotland
Publication category: Newsletters
Fare Choice Issue 80
Milestone edition of our regular newsletter, published in August 2019, featuring updates from the CFHS team, food and health policy news, and features from the community food and health sector. Fare Choice Issue 80
Publishers: Community Food and Health (Scotland), NHS Health Scotland
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: community cafes, community food activity, conference, cookery sessions, older people, policy, social enterprise
Fare Choice Issue 79
February 2019 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.
Publishers: Community Food and Health (Scotland), NHS Health Scotland
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: community cafes, community food activity, cooking, food poverty, funding, older people, policy
Area of Work: Information provision
Fare Choice Issue 78
August 2018 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.
Publishers: Community Food and Health (Scotland), NHS Health Scotland
Publication category: Newsletters
Related topics: community cafes, community food activity, conference, cookery sessions, food poverty, funding, policy
Area of Work: Information provision
Chopping and changing
This report is for anyone who runs, manages or commissions cooking skills courses. It uses evidence from a realist self-evaluation study group to show the impact of cooking skills courses on people who are affected by health inequalities: vulnerable people and parents managing on a low income.
Publishers: Community Food and Health (Scotland), NHS Health Scotland
Publication category: Cooking and growing
Related topics: community food activity, cookery sessions, evaluation
Area of Work: Cookery skills
What’s cooking in Scotland?
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.
Publishers: Community Food and Health (Scotland), NHS Health Scotland
Publication category: Cooking and growing
Related topics: community food activity, cookery sessions, low income, survey
Area of Work: Cookery skills
Food security, diet and obesity – a community-led research project exploring the experiences of ethnic minority groups
This community-led research approach builds on a previous CWIN project exploring food security in black and ethnic minority (BME) people in Glasgow. They recruited and trained a team of 12 community researchers to participate in the design and implementation of the research project.