This new project aims to capture and share the good practices that have emerged during the Covid-19 pandemic, and find ways to embed and build on them. If you work for a local authority, public service, community group or simply have a story to share, they would be interested to hear from you.
Information provision
Shifting the Balance of Community Power
Posted in CFHS updates, Covid-19, News, Research and consultations
Area of Work: Covid-19 information and resources
Access to food in emergencies: learning from Covid-19
This report from the British Red Cross explores food insecurity during the coronavirus pandemic in the UK, as well as the policy, practice and guidance seeking to address it. Access to food in emergencies draws from a collection of national-level polling, interviews and evaluations from British Red Cross services during Covid-19.
Response, Recovery and Resilience Fund
This fund is now open for its second phase, focussing on Recovery. Grants from £1000 to £5000 are available for charities and constituted community groups that have been impacted by the Coronavirus pandemic.
Posted in CFHS updates, Covid-19, Funding news, News
Area of Work: Covid-19 information and resources
Charity Survival Fund
This £10m Fund from the Julia and Hans Rausing Trust will provide core funding to help charities, especially small and medium sized, to offset lost income in the current financial year due to the Covid-19 crisis. More information and details of how to apply on the Trust website.
Posted in CFHS updates, Covid-19, Funding news, News
Area of Work: Covid-19 information and resources
Glasgow food map
Map produced by Urban Roots showing where you can find emergency food aid and food parcels in Glasgow.
Coronavirus and food in the community
Useful video from NHS Forth Valley on how to provide safe food shopping deliveries.
Social Shifters Scotland
A new platform for community organisations, charities and social enterprises.
Scottish Government National Assistance helpline
For vulnerable people beyond the shielded group and who are having difficulties accessing or paying for food or medicines. The helpline redirects callers to local authorities that are co-ordinating responses with support from local partners, including CFIs, in some areas.
PHINS webinar series
GCPH and Public Health Scotland are hosting three separate, but linked, online webinars, which focus on the impact of, the context to, and the emergence from, the COVID-19 pandemic. 10am 3rd Sept, 17th Sept and 1st Oct.