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 Threehills Community Supermarket, and the discussions at our latest peer learning session, as well as news and events, resources and information on community food and health related topics. You can view the e-bulletin here.
About the Good Food Scotland (GFS) model I recently visited Threehills Community Supermarket and cafe, run by Good Food Scotland (GFS) in Nitshill. This post highlights GFS’s approach to the evolving social/community supermarket model and the use of donated food as well as GFS’s partnerships with local housing associations and links with the local community. …
Building a more resilient community food sector: How can we make the case for community food work? On 3 December we ran our second community food online peer session. The session aimed to provide an informal non-judgemental networking and discussion space for people working within the community food sector and those supporting them. During the introduction we covered …
Our latest e-bulletin features information about our next online peer session two, PHS work with Nesta on shaping healthy environments, as well as news and events, resources and information on community food and health related topics. You can view the November e-bulletin here.
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.
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