Community Food and Health (Scotland) or CFHS aims to ensure that everyone in Scotland has the opportunity, ability and confidence to access a healthy and acceptable diet for themselves, their families and their communities. We do this by supporting work with and within low-income communities that addresses health inequalities and barriers (availability, affordability, skills and culture) to healthy and affordable food.
Through our work we aim to support communities to identify these barriers; develop local responses to addressing the barriers; and highlight where actions at other levels, or in other sectors, are required.
We value the experience, understanding, skills and knowledge within Scotland’s community food initiatives and their unique contribution to developing and delivering policy and practice at all levels.
CFHS updates
Our latest e-bulletin features information about our next online peer session two, our ‘community food matters’ blog and latest guest blog, as well as news and events, resources and information on community food and health related topics. You can view the October e-bulletin here.
Our latest blog post by Mandy Cliff, Dietetic Assistant Practitioner with NHS Ayrshire and Arran’s Dietetic Health Improvement Team shows how Dietetic services increase their reach by building the capacity of community and voluntary organisations to run community-led food activities. You can read Mandy’s post on the CFHS blog section.
Building a more resilient community food sector: how can we make the case for community food work? Join us for our next interactive peer session where we’ll explore together how to effectively communicate the impact of community food work to funders, policymakers and colleagues. Whether you use compelling data, powerful stories, or show how you …
Our latest e-bulletin features information about our recent online peer session, as well as news and events, resources and information on community food and health related topics. You can view the September e-bulletin here.
Community food online peer session one: Building a more resilient community food sector: ensuring access to affordable, acceptable, sustainable and nutritious food. On 23rd September we ran our first community food online peer session. The aim was to provide an informal non-judgemental networking space for people working within the community food sector and those supporting …
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