Cooking in the Community Fife Food Champions Lyndsay Clark SHPO Food and Health Health Promotion Fife

Fife Community Food Project Who are we? – Fife wide project, but concentrated in areas of deprivation – Funded until March 2016 – Develop and support food initiatives across Fife working with vulnerable groups and communities Project Aims – Develop skills, confidence and knowledge among local people – Increase access to affordable healthy foods – Building capacity to sustain food activities

Cooking in the Community Why? – Need! – Workforce development – To have a network of trained people able to carry out food related activities within their own communities – Sustainability of project

Training Programme 3 day course developed First Programme was in 2010 Delivered 10 courses Trained over 150 people 77 champions active 11 champions delivering REHIS Cooking Skills Free v Paid?

What is a Food Champion? A food champion is a person who has completed Fife Community Food Project’s Train the Trainers Programme and demonstrated a commitment to deliver and promote positive food messages in their local community

Who we have worked with – YMCA – Early Years Officers – Criminal Justice – Community Learning &Development – Voluntary agencies (Fife Gingerbread, Greener Kirkcaldy, Homestart, Clued Up, Frontline Fife, Fife Young Carers) – Fife Council Education (Youth Work Teams, Gypsy and Traveller Support Teams)

Food Champion Case Studies Zero Waste/Wendy & Charlotte Fife Gingerbread/Angela & Kerry Up the Gallatown YMCA/ Shuggy Family Workers across Fife/Lorraine & Elaine et al

Overcoming Challenges! Ongoing Support provided by FCFP Food Champion Log books Virtual network Development of Web site

Food Champion quotes ‘Completion of FCFP Food Champion training has provided me with a new enjoyment in my work and allowed us to increase range of services and support offered to service users’ Food Champion with WFCSS ‘Delivering Food workshops with clients I now have a greater appreciation for the full range of challenges that some individuals face in trying to achieve a healthy balanced diet’ Food Champion and Family worker Dunfermline area The relaxed environment of using food workshops to engage with families has helped to encourage discussion regarding other areas of health and wellbeing, such as literacy issues and finances. Food Champion and Family worker Cowdenbeath area

Contact Details Food Development Workers Iain Anderson Catherine Nugent