Author archives: Alice Baird

Volunteering Development Grant

The Voluntary Action Fund is seeking applications from registered charities working in Scotland for its Volunteering Development Grant. The grant is available to charities that want to improve and develop …

Posted in Funding news, News |

Mind the Menu speaker announced

Simon Bradstreet, Network Director of the Scottish Recovery Network will be one of the speakers at the Mind the Menu event on 6 June in Dundee. This free event will …

Posted in CFHS updates, Events and conferences, News |

Community Spaces Programme

The Big Lottery Fund (BIG) has announced that its Community Spaces Programme will re-open for applications in June 2012. Through the programme, grants of between £10,000 and £250,000 are available …

Posted in Funding news |

Savour the flavour – the African Kitchen

The Co-operative Savour the Flavour roadshow is travelling round Scotland at the end of June and the beginning of July. The African Kitchen will give Co-operative Members useful ideas and recipes using …

Posted in Events and conferences |

World Health Day

The World Health Organisation (WHO) is calling for urgent action to ensure that, at a time when the world’s population is ageing rapidly, people reach old age in the best …

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More Village SOS funding

The Big Lottery Fund has announced a second round of Village SOS funding totalling £4 million, which will open on 10 April. Grants of between £10,000 and £50,000 are available …

Posted in Funding news |

Community Food Social Enterprise Network

The next meeting of the Community Food Social Enterprise Network is being held on Tuesday 24 April at 3 pm in the Crescent Kitchen, Broomhouse Centre, Edinburgh. The meeting will …

Posted in Events and conferences |

Mind the Menu

This CFHS event on community food work supporting mental health and wellbeing has now been rescheduled to Wednesday 6 June at Discovery Point in Dundee. Further information and details of …

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National Parenting Strategy

The Scottish Government would welcome the views of early years workers as it develops the National Parenting Strategy. The strategy will be wide ranging, focusing on parents of children of …

Posted in Policy news |

NHS Health Scotland Healthy Living publications update

The NHS Health Scotland suite of Healthy Living public facing resources will be updated in 2012-13 and support is needed to guide the development of these national publications. These publications …

Posted in Publications news |