This year’s CFHS annual networking conference, Going Forth, was held at the Carnegie Conference Centre, Dunfermline on Thursday 22 October. This year’s event maintained a strong focus on community initiatives that are developing and sustaining food and health activities that address food access and health inequalities. As always the conference was very well-supported and attended. …
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Food and Health Alliance Conference
Places are still available for the Food and Health Alliance Conference which is taking place at Edinburgh Conference Centre on 17 November. The focus will be on the food and health aspects of Recipe for Success – Scotland’s National Food and Drink Policy. This event will be an opportunity to: understand future actions from the …
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BBC Children in Need
BBC Children in Need provides grants for up to three years to properly constituted not for profit organisations working with disadvantaged young people aged 18 or under. Funding is available to organisations, (including schools) that work with young people who are suffering from illness, distress, abuse or neglect, are disabled, have behavioural or psychological difficulties …
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What is the impact of volunteering in your organisation?
Volunteer Development Scotland (VDS) is currently piloting a Volunteer Impact Assessment toolkit and they are keen to work with a community food initiative as part of this pilot. The Volunteer Impact Assessment toolkit was originally developed by the Institute for Volunteering Research in response to growing demand for support from organisations to highlight the impact …
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Launch of Scottish Government Resilience Fund
The Scottish Government has just announced the launch of a £1.7 million Resilience Fund, for third sector organisations that have been affected by the recession. Grants of between £10,000 and £100,000 will potentially be available to Third Sector organisations which can demonstrate: How the recession has led to increased demand or significantly undermined their services …
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Single Outcome Agreements
Single Outcome Agreements (SOAs) are now the key way that Community Planning Partnerships (CPPs) identify their priorities for local communities, in line with national outcomes identified by the Scottish Government. We have heard about one or two examples of people linking the outcomes they achieve to those within their local SOAs. For more information please …
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Minding Their Own Business Too
In 2006 CFHS produced Minding Their Own Business, an introduction to business and social enterprise for organisations supporting local communities tackling inequalities in diet and health. Minding Their Own Business Too is a companion to this toolkit. In response to suggestions from people involved in community food and health work, it focuses on examples of …
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CFHS annual networking conference open for bookings
Booking forms are now available for this year’s annual networking conference, Going Forth, to be held at the Carnegie Conference Centre on 22 October. Please visit the Current Work section for more details.
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Healthier food pilots
CFHS is looking to expand its work with black and ethnic minority communities and want to hear from groups and organisations that have ideas about work they would like to do, to improve the take-up of a healthy diet within black and ethnic minority communities. We are looking to fund three small scale pilot pieces …
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Scottish Grocers Federation Healthy Living programme
A summary of the evaluation of the roll-out of the Scottish Grocers Federation’s ‘Healthy Living’ programme is now available. The summary highlights the key findings from the evaluation and includes a number of recommendations for any future development of this work.