Exploring Scotland’s past, current and potential future relationship between co-operation, food and health.
Social enterprise
Shared tastes and common values
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Retailing and catering
Related topics: case studies, community food activity, community retailing, food co-op, social enterprise
Areas of Work: Community cafes and retailing, Social enterprise
Community food social enterprise network
CFHS is working with Senscot to support the community food social enterprise network (SEN). Membership of the SEN is open to any community food and health organisation that is, or is aspiring to be, a social enterprise. For more details, contact Anne.
Posted in CFHS updates
Area of Work: Social enterprise
Evaluation of social enterprise activities
Since 2008 CFHS has offered a range of learning and development opportunities around social enterprise. An evaluation of these activities was recently carried out with the participants.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Business and project development
Related topics: evaluation, social enterprise
Areas of Work: Research and evaluation, Social enterprise
Minding Their Own Business Too
In 2006 Community Food and Health (Scotland) produced ‘Minding Their Own Business’, an introduction to business and social enterprise for organisations supporting local communities tackling inequalities in diet and health. Minding Their Own Business Too is a companion to this toolkit. In response to suggestions from people involved in community food and health work, it …
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Business and project development
Related topics: business, co-operative, social enterprise
Area of Work: Social enterprise
Study tours September 2008
In September 2008 we ran two tours to organisations in Aberdeen and Edinburgh delivering services for people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness and operating as social enterprise.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Conferences and networking
Related topics: cookery sessions, Edinburgh, Grampian, homelessness, partnership, social enterprise, study tours and exchanges, volunteers
Areas of Work: Networking and learning development, Social enterprise
Getting Down to Business
Report and evaluation from two events giving community food projects the opportunity to find out more about becoming social enterprises.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Business and project development
Keyword: social enterprise
Area of Work: Social enterprise
Banking services for social enterprise
Information about the services and key contacts that the main Scottish banks offer to projects using social enterprise approaches.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Business and project development
Keyword: social enterprise
Area of Work: Social enterprise
Minding Their Own Business
Guide to encourage those working at community level to explore the potential of new ways of working and to enable those who want to follow the social enterprise route to get all the assistance they require. Considers potential pitfalls and constraints and gives advice and information
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Business and project development
Related topics: business, co-operative, social enterprise
Area of Work: Social enterprise
Minding Their Own Business launch summary
Minding Their Own Business is an introductory guide to business and social enterprise produced by SCDP for community food initiatives. This is a brief report of a seminar on social enterprise and community food initiatives at which the publication was launched.
Publisher: Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Publication category: Business and project development
Related topics: business, co-operative, social enterprise
Areas of Work: Networking and learning development, Social enterprise
2015 Social Enterprise Awards
Social enterprises throughout the UK are invited to apply to the 2015 Social Enterprise Awards, which recognise and reward outstanding performance and achievement over the past year. Full details can be found on the Social Enterprise UK website.