Around 40 community food initiatives took part in an event on 7 March, run jointly by CFHS and Senscot. A community food social enterprise network session was held in the …
Author archives: Alice Baird
Community Food Social Enterprise Network and community retailers ‘sharing good practice’ sessions
Posted in CFHS updates, Events and conferences, News
Areas of Work: Community cafes and retailing, Networking and learning development
Job done
With the imminent implementation by government of a Soft Drinks Industry Levy, the Children’s Health Fund are closing their voluntary levy which has distributed £162,000 to local communities over a …
Posted in Misc food and health, News
Time to Digest
Despite the Arctic conditions and transport systems in chaos, practitioners, policy makers and researchers from across Scotland and beyond met in Glasgow for this latest get together looking at measurement …
Posted in CFHS updates, News
Area of Work: Food poverty and access
New National Lottery funding now open for Year of Young People
Funding of between £3,000 and £10,000 is available for heritage, community and sports projects that are run for and by young people aged eight to 26 years old and that …
Posted in Funding news, News
Area of Work: Funding
Latest round of the Climate Challenge Fund
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon recently visited the 1,000th recipient of the Climate Challenge Fund (CCF) as she announced the latest grants totalling £15.3 million. More information and details of how to …
Posted in Funding news, News
Area of Work: Funding
Dignity in Practice Report
Nourish Scotland and the Poverty Truth Commission have released a report that aims to be a practical resource to help community food providers to think about what dignity looks like …
Posted in News, Publications news
People’s Health Fund – Active Communities Funding
Local groups and organisations with great ideas to make their communities even better places to live are now invited to apply for funding to turn their ideas into reality. Active …
Posted in Funding news, News
New briefing from Senscot
Latest briefing from Senscot – Social prescribing: the role of social enterprises – is now available at https://senscot.net/
Posted in News, Publications news
Self-evaluation programme for community cafes
Between August 2017 and March 2018 we worked with a small group of community cafes to look at self-evaluation. Together they developed a list of community cafe outcomes to reflect the range of …