Author archives: Alice Baird

CFHS cooking skills learning exchange

Registration is now open for our cooking skills learning exchange, to be held in the Apex Grassmarket Hotel in Edinburgh on 10 November. Come and hear  about our cooking skills …

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CFHS community cafe networking event 1 September 2016

We had an enjoyable and interesting day at the Pearce Institute in Glasgow. Around 60 delegates attended and enjoyed workshops and networking and various activities throughout the day.    

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Chewing things over … CFHS annual networking conference 2016

Registration is now open for our annual networking event in Edinburgh on 26 October 2016. The conference programme is now available, together with details of the workshop sessions.

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Good Food Nation Fund

A Good Food Nation Fund has been launched by the Scottish Government to support the vision and objectives of the national food policy. Open to third, public and private sectors, …

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Cooking skills blog 16: practitioner guest blog –Gail Hutchison: reflecting on two very different approaches to managing and evaluating cooking courses

Gail is a member of the CFHS cooking skills study group on behalf of both NHS Forth Valley and Edinburgh Community Food. Her role at both is to manage and …

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CFHS community cafe visits

CFHS is holding three more community café learning visits, on 4, 12 and 19 October. The three community cafes hosting the visits – the Annexe Café, Windmills Café and Fly …

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Scottish Islands Federation survey

Scottish Islands Federation is a network of island community organisations that aims to share ideas and innovations between the islands as well as give a voice to some of the common …

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Living at the sharp end: CAB clients in crisis

New report from Citizens Advice Scotland  looks in detail at the causes of gaps in income, particularly with regards to the benefits system; the impact of gaps in income on CAB …

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Polishing the Diamonds’: Addressing Adverse Childhood Experiences in Scotland

ScotPHN has recently published a report on Adverse Childhood Experience. The report is available on the ScotPHN website www.scotphn.net/projects/adverse-childhood-experiences/introduction/  

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Chewing things over .. CFHS annual networking conference 2016

Wednesday 26 October 2016 Dynamic Earth, Edinburgh Food, health and inequality – taking a compassionate and dignified approach.  Come and share your knowledge and experience, hopes and concerns, with volunteers, …

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