Northern Exposure - Community Food and Health

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Contents Page Introduction 3 Why organise a study tour? 3 Participants on the tour 4 Programme 5 Day 1 7 Day 2 9 Day 3 11 Day 4 14 What did the participants take away with them? 16 Evaluation 18 Afterthoughts 20 Contact details 21 2 Carina, Lucy, John, Gordon, Anna, Jane and Katrina at Glasgow Central station before heading off in the mini-bus
Introduction Northern Exposure, a tour of community food initiatives, food manufacturers and policy makers in the North of Scotland, was organised by the Scottish Community Diet Project (SCDP) in September 2001. Financed by the project’s budget from the Health Department of the Scottish Executive, Northern Exposure aimed to give volunteers from community food initiatives in the South of Scotland the opportunity to network with individuals involved in similar activities in the Highlands and Islands. Northern Exposure was the return leg of Southern Exposure, which gave volunteers from the North of Scotland’s community food initiatives a tour of projects in the South. A Southern Exposure report is also available from SCDP and can be downloaded from www.dietproject.co.uk Six participants joined the four-day tour. The tour was co-ordinated by SCDP’s Networking and Communication Development Worker Lucy Gillie and was made possible with the navigation skills of the tour’s mini-bus driver, Gordon McAlonan, who is also a community food activist with Fresh Loaf, part of the Ferguslie Park food initiative. This report summarises the tour and gives an insight into the participants’ thoughts of each visit and what it inspired them to do on their return. Why organise a study tour? The organisers hoped that the tour would achieve the following purposes: ♦ Broaden participants’ knowledge and familiarise them with a range of community food initiatives. ♦ Explore the varied practical skills required to work in different community food initiatives. ♦ Examine the role of individuals who do paid work or volunteer work in different community food initiatives. ♦ Help participants to make comparisons and identify areas for developing and improving their own roles. ♦ Make available the participants’ experience and range of different community food initiatives to others who work in the same field through a report. 3
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