Exploring innovative enterprise models for meals on wheels provision
By Simon Shaw, 2021
Fellow’s Profile
Fellow’s Profile
Exploring innovative enterprise models for meals on wheels provision
Employing social enterprise to support older people's access to food
2019
London
My Fellowship explored enterprising approaches to meals on wheels delivery for older people. I investigated how meals were delivered by a range of public, charitable, social enterprise and private sector organisations and how they manage to survive and thrive. This is of particular relevance to the UK, where reductions in traditional funding have led to the closure of many meals on wheels services, despite high levels of malnutrition amongst older people living in the community. There are organisations managing to buck this trend and continue to deliver or even expand their services.
Following on from my Fellowship I co-founded Sustain's Older People's Food Campaign, including a 'Home from hospital' project highlighting good practice on older people's access to food at the point of hospital discharge and beyond. I am currently co-developing a large-scale research project which would explore older and disabled people's access to food in their own homes.
Simon Shaw (CF 2019) appeared on the Food Foundation's podcast to discuss 'Food at Home' – a knowledge exchange research project he is co-leading, exploring older and disabled people's practical access to food in their own homes.
By Simon Shaw, 2024
Food Power Programme Coordinator Simon Shaw (CF 2019) was included in an article 'How to feed the elderly better' in The Financial Times. Simon talked about senior welfare centres in South Korea where meals-on-wheels, lunch clubs and more are delivered in the same place.
By Simon Shaw, 2023
Charity worker Simon Shaw (CF 2019) hosted a webinar on food security with the food and farming alliance Sustain on 16 March. As part of the webinar, Simon shared a new guide that explores how people can access food after they are discharged from hospital.
By Simon Shaw, 2022
By Simon Shaw, 2022
Charity worker Simon Shaw (2019) delivered an online workshop on improving access to food after patients are discharged from hospital, including meals on wheels, on 2 November. Dame Prue Leith and a range of speakers shared their perspectives and experiences, and Simon wrote a follow-up blog.
By Simon Shaw, 2021
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Simon Shaw (CF 2019) appeared on the Food Foundation's podcast to discuss 'Food at Home' – a knowledge exchange research project he is co-leading, exploring older and disabled people's practical access to food in their own homes.
By Simon Shaw, 2024
Food Power Programme Coordinator Simon Shaw (CF 2019) was included in an article 'How to feed the elderly better' in The Financial Times. Simon talked about senior welfare centres in South Korea where meals-on-wheels, lunch clubs and more are delivered in the same place.
By Simon Shaw, 2023
Charity worker Simon Shaw (CF 2019) hosted a webinar on food security with the food and farming alliance Sustain on 16 March. As part of the webinar, Simon shared a new guide that explores how people can access food after they are discharged from hospital.
By Simon Shaw, 2022
By Simon Shaw, 2022
Charity worker Simon Shaw (2019) delivered an online workshop on improving access to food after patients are discharged from hospital, including meals on wheels, on 2 November. Dame Prue Leith and a range of speakers shared their perspectives and experiences, and Simon wrote a follow-up blog.
By Simon Shaw, 2021
All Reports are copyright © the author. The moral right of the author has been asserted. The views and opinions expressed by any Fellow are those of the Fellow and not of the Churchill Fellowship or its partners, which have no responsibility or liability for any part of them.