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
In the last blog we explained what prevention means for public health and for the community food sector. In this blog post we explain how it can be evaluated. Earlier this year, Evaluation Support Scotland (ESS) delivered a workshop for the community food sector on evaluating prevention. One of the key messages was that although …
Prevention is central to a range of Scottish Government policies, including the Population Health Framework, Cash-First: Towards Ending the need for Food Banks and will help us in Scotland to achieve a Good Food Nation. But what does prevention actually mean in practice? And what role does the community food sector play in delivering it? What does prevention mean? In …
Our latest e-bulletin provides information about our recent events, information about funding, events, and relevant information for the community food sector in Scotland. You can read the e-bulletin here.
This webinar took place on 10th June 2026 What the webinar was about: Community Food National Reference Group members Community Food Initiatives North East (CFINE), Lanarkshire Community Food & Health Partnership (LCFHP), Glasgow Community Food Network (GCFN) and Edinburgh Community Food (ECF) worked together to develop an online resource space with access to information on …
Our most recent online peer session for the community food sector, held on 13 May 2026, discussed how the community food sector contributes to the prevention of a wide range of public health issues. We used this peer session to share learning from the Evaluating Prevention Session that Public Health Scotland ran with Evaluation Support …
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