Community Food Initiatives North East (CFINE) is one of the case studies in a useful new briefing on the role of social enterprises in tackling loneliness and social isolation. You …
Author archives: Alice Baird
Improvement Fund
Some community food initiatives may be interested in the second year of the £200,000 Improvement Fund run by Healthcare Improvement Scotland’s Improvement Hub. Applications, from £5,000 to £75,000, will be …
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New animation: Power, a health and social justice issue
A short web-based animation on ‘Power as a health and social justice issue’ has been developed through a collaboration between Glasgow Centre for Population Health (GCPH) and NHS Health Scotland. …
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CFHS annual networking conference 2017
Please note that our annual networking conference is now fully booked. Delegates can look forward to tasty presentations, lots of table talk and plenty to take away from our popular …
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Area of Work: Networking and learning development
Obesity in Scotland
A new study “Obesity in Scotland: a persistent inequality” has been published in the International Journal for Equity and Health. The study is also summarised in the ScotPHO report “Obesity …
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Comic Relief launch new Active Ageing Grants Programme
The new Active Ageing: Creating Change in Communities initiative is providing £1.5 million of funding in order to engage older people aged 65 and over from ‘harder to reach’ groups …
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GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) IMPACT Awards 2018 Open to Applications
The IMPACT Awards are an annual scheme, funded by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) as part of the company’s commitment to promoting community health and wellbeing. The Awards are organised and managed in …
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Area of Work: Funding
New £1.6 million National Lottery project to tackle food poverty
People in communities across the UK will be given support to tackle food poverty, under a new four-year programme supported with more than £1.6 million of National Lottery funding from …
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Would you like to host an MSP at your garden?
Working to improve the laws and policies that affect community growing is an important element of the work of the Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens, who are looking …
Posted in Misc food and health, News, Other opportunities
Scottish Government Consultation – Guidance – Part 9 – Allotments – Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015
The Scottish Government “Consultation on Guidance for Local Authorities, Part 9 of the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015” is now live: https://consult.scotland.gov.uk/food-and-drink/allotments-part-9-community-empowerment-act/start_preview?token=1415e9ba170a9a4a8b2090b0ba17debd01ead690 Written and online responses are invited by 17 …