Supported by Scottish Government and the Food Standards Agency Scotland, the Healthier Scotland Cooking Bus is offering FREE practical cooking sessions throughout the Commonwealth Games to community groups and organisations. www.focusonfood.org/news_reader?id=41 .
Author archives: Alice Baird
Community cooking sessions at Glasgow Green Festival 2014
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Newsletter for schools and community groups
Focus on Food has recently launched this new resource for schools and community groups. http://createsend.com/t/r-8E70DFF8B35595E62540EF23F30FEDED
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Beyond the School Gate
Beyond the School Gate guidance for local authorities, schools, retailers, caterers and others on what they can do to influence the food environment around schools is now available.
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Emergency Food Fund – Joining Up Local Responses
Food aid organisations are now able to apply for funding through the Scottish Government £500,000 Emergency Food Fund (EFF). EFF will support projects which respond to immediate demands for emergency food aid and help to address the underlying causes of food poverty. Applications are invited for larger grants, up to four of which will be …
Posted in Funding news, News
Area of Work: Funding
Volunteer Week
Our friends at Food Train Renfrewshire have produced this video for Volunteer Week
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CFHS annual networking conference 2014
This year’s national networking conference will take place on Wednesday 29 October at the Grand Central Hotel in Glasgow. About the event A national networking conference hosted by Community Food and Health (Scotland). A unique opportunity to network with community food colleagues. A day where people can learn and discuss national activity as well as local …
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CFHS research project – do you run practical cooking skills activities for adults or young people?
Do you have cooking skills evaluation reports that are gathering dust and too few people to read them? If your answer is yes, please can you help us? 100s of groups and agencies across Scotland run cooking activities for people in low-income communities. But there is very little publically available written evidence about what difference …
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Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Research and evaluation
Evaluating impact programme
The CFHS evaluating impact programme is open to community food organisations working in low-income communities who work with older people to eat well, or within communities to address long-term issues of food poverty. The aim of the programme is to increase the amount of evidence on the difference made by community food initiatives (CFIs) in …
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Area of Work: Funding
Forthcoming community development events
There are still a few places available at ‘Community Development: What vision for Scotland?’ in Glasgow on Wednesday 25 June. The free event has been organised by Community Development Alliance Scotland who are working with the Scottish Community Development Centre and Scottish Community Development Network to encourage a national dialogue around community development in Scotland. …
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CFHS annual development fund is now open
Community Food and Health (Scotland) has an annual development fund open to groups and agencies in Scotland that would like to improve access to, and take up of, a healthy, varied and balanced diet. Funding from £500 to £3000 is available. The fund is now open for applications (until 8 August 2014). See our funding …