Community
For people working in a community setting, this section contains details of how you can help people learn more about food and gain cooking skills through local nutrition initiatives. You will also find guidance here for those who buy, cook and serve food in places ranging from workplace canteens to residential care homes.
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Guidance for caterers
The Agency has produced practical guidance, including weekly example menus, to help caterers across the UK provide food that meets the nutritional needs of adults (for example in, workplace canteens, hospitals, prisons, local and central Government) and older people in residential care homes.
Food and cookery clubs
What's cooking? is a guide to setting up and running community and school food clubs. It's aimed at anyone who would like to help young people learn more about food and about how to prepare and cook healthy and appetising meals.
Let's Cook!
Let’s Cook! aims to teach disadvantaged young parents in England and Wales basic cooking, healthy eating and food hygiene skills.
Get Cooking!
The aim of 'Get Cooking!' is to provide trainers with a toolkit to teach young people, broadly between the ages of 14 and 25, some basic cooking skills in a community setting.
Sheila McKechnie Award
This award scheme is made annually to community food initiatives to commemorate the contribution that Dame Sheila McKechnie made in helping to set up the Agency.
FSA Wales Awards for Food Action Locally
Food Standards Agency Wales runs the annual Awards for Food Action Locally (AFAL) scheme to recognise individual or team contributions to local nutrition initiatives that have made a positive impact on the diet or eating habits of residents in the communities where they work.