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We’re launching interactive online sessions to bring together community food initiatives (CFIs) across Scotland. Each session will tackle a key challenge facing CFIs, with space to share experiences, ideas, and solutions. To instigate deeper conversations, sessions will include a choice of breakout groups for peer connection. Who are these for?  Our online peer sessions are …

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Showcasing the importance of the community food sector – 29 May 2025

Join us as we highlight how community food initiatives build local partnerships to collectively make a difference. In this webinar, Community Food Initiatives North East (CFINE) and Lanarkshire Community Food and Health Partnership (LCFHP) will discuss how their work makes a difference to their local communities by improving access to affordable, sustainable and nutritious food, …

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Building a community food network

Propagate was one of three projects awarded funding from us last year, to support collaborative working and which Propagate used to expand the reach of the Dumfries and Galloway Community Food Network. The Network successfully reached a wider range of community food initiatives across this rural area; raised awareness of cash first approaches to tacking …

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Funded pilot opportunity – collaborating to build a stronger community food sector and tackle health inequalities and poverty

Update 13 December 2022 We have received all the Expressions of Interest and have now invited five groups to take part in the final application process for this funding opportunity. ___________________________________________________________________ We want a more joined up, coherent and sustainable community food[1] sector to support access to, and take-up of, affordable, nutritious, sustainable[2] and culturally …

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The Reckoning – food insecurity measurement and its application to policy and practice – update

This event, held at Edinburgh Training Centre on 25 November 2019,  was organised jointly with the Scottish Government, who gave an update on the data currently collected by the Scottish Health Survey and the move to questions within the UK-wide Family Resources Survey. A Menu for Change were also involved in organising the event and …

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Update: Priceless CFHS Annual Networking Conference, 4 November 2019

Community Food and Health Scotland’s 2019 Annual Networking Conference – Priceless – was an informative event, which stimulated many interesting discussions and was an excellent networking opportunity. Our keynote speaker’s Wendy Wills Presentation at Priceless Conference has been uploaded.  Please follow this link to read the Conference summary report.  In addition, an evaluation survey summary …

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Community Food Health Scotland (CFHS) annual networking conference, Priceless

We are delighted to announce that registration is open for the Community Food Health Scotland (CFHS) annual conference, Priceless: the networking event for everyone who values the contribution of low- income communities in addressing food insecurity, health inequalities and social exclusion, which will take place at COSLA Conference Centre in Edinburgh on Monday 4 November …

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Finland study tour

Six colleagues from Finland arrived on 3 December 2018 to share experiences on work around older people and food. Their project in Finland ‘Eating Together – Lunches for Seniors’ involved organising lunches for older people with local businesses and charities in a sparsely populated region of South Savo in Finland.  The seniors were also involved …

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Say hear!

Thanks to all who attended our annual networking event, Hear Say, on 24 October 2018, making it such a great day. Community activists, local practitioners, planners, policy makers and academics from across the country and sectors and disciplines came together in Dunfermline to hear a range of speakers, take part in table and workshop discussions …

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Understanding food insecurity in Scotland: using evidence for policy and practice change

The latest seminar on measuring food insecurity, co-organised with A Menu for Change, took place in Glasgow at the beginning of October. National and international presentations, including a look at the first data from the new food insecurity questions in the Scottish Health Survey, an update on A Menu for Change and a fascinating insight …

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