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 …
Author archives: Alice Baird
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 …
Posted in CFHS updates, News
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 …
Posted in CFHS updates, Funding news, News
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 …
Posted in Events and conferences, News
CFHS community cafe networking event 26 June 2014, Glasgow
This free CFHS event is open to anyone working in, managing, or supporting a community cafe, and will include opportunities to find out about Edinburgh Community Cafes network and the healthyliving award, and meet …
Posted in CFHS updates, Events and conferences, News
Area of Work: Community cafes and retailing
Support for Food Safety Week Initiatives 2014
Food Safety Week is a national food hygiene campaign which this year runs from the 16 June to the 22 June. The campaign offers an excellent opportunity for promotion of …
Posted in Funding news, News
CHEX policy briefing on the integration of health and social care
CHEX has produced a briefing summing up the recently-passed Public Bodies (Joint Working ) (Scotland) Bill and the implications/opportunities for community-led health. At the end of February 2014, the Scottish …
Posted in Misc food and health, News, Policy news
New pictorial recipes available
The Edinburgh Cyrenians Good Food Programme has completed a new CFHS-funded, online pictorial recipe book for people who have difficulty reading a standard text-based recipe. It contains 16 recipes, including …
Posted in News, Publications news
Area of Work: Learning disability
Human rights based approaches to food poverty
CFHS is recruiting people involved in community food initiatives in Scotland to join an enquiry into human rights based approaches to food poverty. We are looking for a group of …
Posted in CFHS updates, News
Area of Work: Food poverty and access
Volunteer Week
Our friends at Food Train Renfrewshire have produced this video for Volunteer Week