30 January 2025 10 am – 12 pm Online This Green Health Learning Network event, hosted by Public Health Scotland (PHS) will bring together a range of professionals to share evidence-informed initiatives aiming to improve mental and physical health through natural and open spaces, with plenty of space for questions and shared learning. More information …
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Cash first approaches to early years nutrition
23 January 2025 9.30 am – 12.30 pm Norton Park, Edinburgh Join Edinburgh Community Food for its third Menu for All networking event, which will focus on adequate early years nutrition access and support. More information and registration on the eventbrite website.
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Food v Nature: the role of community food growing
untangling the competition for urban green space between food growing and wildlife habitat 19 December 2024 4 pm – 5 pm Online This webinar from the Right to Grow Learning Network at Incredible Edible, aims to deep dive into the Right to Grow policy that improves access to public land for food growing projects, and …
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Democratic Finance Scotland
The Democratic Finance Scotland programme supports community and social enterprises to secure their long-term financial sustainability. Democratic Finance is an approach that combines citizen-led investment with democratically controlled businesses to build local economies that work better for the people who live there. Support includes securing local sources of money; democratic tools for strengthening local control and …
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Self Management Fund
Through Self Management for Life, Round 2, the ALLIANCE will distribute Scottish Government funds to third sector and community organisations working in Scotland, to support new activities that will encourage new approaches or add to our learning around self management. More information and details of how to apply on the ALLIANCE website.
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National Lottery Awards for All Scotland
Funding is available from £300 – £20,000 to support community-led projects that bring people together to build strong relationships in and across communities; or improve the places and spaces that matter to communities; or help more people to reach their potential; or support people, communities and organisations facing more demands and challenges because of the …
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Baobab Community Fund
The Baobab Community Fund is offering grants ranging from £5,000 – £30,000 per year for up to 5 years, for black and global majority individuals, organisations and collectives (18+) who are working towards racial justice. More information and details of how to apply on the Baobab Foundation website.
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Building stronger community organisations: an online learning resource for community groups
This resource from the Scottish Refugee Council, with support from SCDC, is designed to build the skills, confidence and knowledge of refugee-led organisations and refugee supporting organisations, although most of the materials will be useful to any community group. The resource is available on the SCDC website.
Review of ready-to-eat food products sold over social media in Scotland
Food Standards Scotland has published this research report revealing insights into the growing trend of food sales on social media platforms. The research, which focused on ready-to-eat food sold over Facebook Marketplace, was commissioned to better understand the scale and safety of food sold in this way. Read more on the Food Standards Scotland website.
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Community food stakeholder engagement: findings
Between spring and autumn 2024 we engaged with stakeholders from the community food sector, including the wider voluntary and public sector engaged in community food, to better understand what is needed to strengthen community food work across Scotland. Through these conversations, stakeholders told us about their successes, challenges and barriers and ideas on how to …