To celebrate 100 years, Tesco have launched special bagsofhelp Centenary Grants. £25,000; £15,000 and £10,000 is available to projects that benefit the community across 5 regional areas in Scotland. In the July/August …
Author archives: Alice Baird
Community Wellbeing Action Research
The Community Wellbeing Action Research (programme) from the Robertson Trust will see up to 8 community organisations developing and delivering support and services alongside their community, which take a trauma …
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Reasons to be cheerful part 2 – CFHS cooking skills research. What did we learn about the best ways to run a cooking skills course?
Our cooking skills study group realist evaluation (2016-2018), gathered information from 29 community cooking skills courses (attended by 75 adults -all of whom were managing on low-incomes and the majority …
Posted in CFHS Blog, CFHS updates, Cooking skills research
Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Information provision, Research and evaluation
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 …
Posted in CFHS updates, Events and conferences, News
Areas of Work: Networking and learning development, Older people
Parent Club Scotland
Scottish Government yesterday launched its Parent Club campaign at Lorne Primary School in Govan. The kids and parents made a healthy meal together with Moogety Foods and Maree Todd MSP. Cooking together is …
Good Food Nation Proposals for Legislation consultation
Scottish Government today launched its Good Food Nation consultation. The consultation is available on the Scottish Government website consultation hub and is available for responses until 29 March 2018. https://consult.gov.scot/food-and-drink/good-food-nation/ …
Posted in News, Policy news, Research and consultations
New financial inclusion referral pathway resources
NHS Health Scotland has recently published new resources to help NHS Boards, Local Authorities, Money and Welfare advice services and other Community Planning Partners develop and improve financial inclusion referral …
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Rights into Reality: Human rights and community-led health conference
Registration is now open for this CHEX conference, taking place in Glasgow on 6 February 2019. More information at www.chex.org.uk
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A Connected Scotland: Scottish Government strategy for tackling social isolation and loneliness and building stronger social connections
Scotland has become one of the first countries in the world to develop a national strategy to deal with social isolation. To kick start the strategy, Minister for Older People …
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Social Enterprise: Creating Wellbeing in Communities
This latest in the series of Senscot briefings is now available to download from its website This Briefing aims to demonstrate the existing contribution of social enterprise in improving health …