This new recipe book from Pilton Community Health Project features recipes chosen and put together by participants of its Wednesday cooking club. Each recipe is simple, healthy and cheap to make and is a particular favourite of the local person featured. Download Everyone can cook! (PDF)
Author archives: Alice Baird
Empowering our Communities pop-up day, June 26th
Scotland now has ‘Community Empowerment’ legislation, growing co-production and participatory budgeting (or ‘community choices’) movements, and communities who are have shown the difference that community ownership of assets can make for making local places better.However, many of us who are working hard to change things locally can feel cut off from sources of support and …
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Community café self-evaluation programme
Would you like your cafe to be able to demonstrate the difference it’s making to your staff, volunteers, customers and community? Would you like to be involved in developing a range of tools that other cafes can use to evaluate the impact of their work as well? Community Food and Health (Scotland) is looking for six …
Posted in CFHS updates, News
Area of Work: Community cafes and retailing
Community cafe learning visits
In October 2016, CFHS held three community café learning visits. An infographic and short report about the visits, and their impact on the participants that took part, are now available. For more details, please contact anne.gibson5@nhs.net
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Area of Work: Community cafes and retailing
Food for Thought Funding
Education Scotland has another round of funding for early learning and childcare centres, primary schools and secondary schools to develop food and health education. Up to £3000 is available and applications will close at 14.00 on Wednesday 31 May 2017. The aim of the fund is to provide progressive, high quality learning experiences in food and health, …
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CHEX annual conference 1 March 2017 – power, inequality and community-led health
Presentations from the speakers at yesterday’s event now available on the CHEX website www.chex.org.uk
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CFHS development fund recipients 2016
In total, 38 voluntary and community groups have been allocated development funding by Community Food and Health Scotland, allowing them to promote and deliver healthy eating initiatives. CFHS, part of NHS Health Scotland, aims to ensure that everyone in Scotland has the opportunity, ability and confidence to access a healthy and acceptable diet for themselves, …
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Area of Work: Funding
Growing a Greener Britain Small Grants Programme Opens to Applications
Growing a Greener Britain has been set up by idverde UK, a nationwide contractor that creates and maintains parks and open spaces across the UK, to help fund community projects in publicly-owned parks and open spaces across Britain. Constituted community groups in Great Britain can apply for grants of up to £1,000 for projects which …
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Aspiring Communities Fund opens for applications
The Scottish Government’s new two year £18.9 million Aspiring Communities Fund is currently inviting applications for the first funding round, which closes on 7 April 2017. The Fund will help enable community bodies and third sector organisations in deprived and fragile communities to develop and deliver long-term local solutions that address local priorities and needs, increase …
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Calling all Scottish community enterprises …
to take 10 minutes to complete the Social Enterprise Census 2017, the national count of social enterprises supported by the Scottish Government and others. Almost 900 enterprising charities, community co-ops and social enterprises have already responded