The Scottish Government is now accepting applications for the Third Sector Enterprise Fund. This £12 million Fund, available from April 2009 to March 2011 ‘aims to support ambitious third sector organisations that wish to operate in a more business-like and enterprising way, with a view to achieving increased sustainability’. It will invest in activities such …
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Caroline Walker Trust Eating Well Conference
This event to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Caroline Walker Trust took place on Tuesday 25 November 2008. The day covered aspects of public health nutrition, and a variety of topics such as UK food policies, pregnancy, early years and older people were critically assessed and discussed by speakers. Further information: www.cwt.org.uk
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Issue 2 of Engage now available
Issue Two of Engage (PDF, 624 kb), the magazine for the Meeting the Shared Challenge support programme, is now available from the Health Scotland website The magazine highlights the work of this national capacity building programme for community-led health improvement.
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Issue 46 of Fare Choice now available
Issue 46 of Fare Choice is now available to download from the Our Newsletters section of the Publications Library.
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Support for children and families
A transformational framework to improve the life chances of Scotland’s children and tackle inequalities by targeting the early years was launched by the Scottish Government and COSLA last week. The Early Years Framework, developed in collaboration with independent experts during the past nine months, sets out a radical shift away from the culture of crisis …
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Healthy Start for kids at school
Pilot projects aimed at improving children’s health by providing targeted health-related services at school were unveiled yesterday by the Scottish Government as the first Equally Well implementation plan was published. The first children’s health and wellbeing support pilot gets underway in South Ayrshire in January, followed by others in Moray, West Lothian and Clackmannanshire. Public …
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New CFHS report – study tours to Aberdeen and Edinburgh
In September 2008, we ran two tours to organisations in Aberdeen and Edinburgh delivering services for people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness and operating as social enterprises. A short report on the study tours is now available to download from the Conferences and Networking section of the Publications Library.
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Getting Down to Business – new CFHS report
The report and evaluation of the Getting Down to Business seminars, which offered participants in Edinburgh and Inverness the opportuniity to find out more about becoming a social enterprise, is now available to download from the Business and Project Development section of the Publications Library.
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Consumer Focus Scotland
The Scottish Consumer Council (SCC), energywatch (Scotland) and Postwatch (Scotland) merged on 1st October 2008. The new stronger consumer organisation is known as Consumer Focus Scotland. All the development projects currently based at the SCC, including Community Food and Health (Scotland), will continue their award winning work as part of Consumer Focus Scotland.
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Soil Association Scotland public meetings on food
Soil Association Scotland is holding a series of public meetings throughout Scotland in the coming weeks. Members of the public are invited to take part in a discussion on how local communities can help create a healthier food culture, and a sustainable future for food and farming in Scotland. There will be an opportunity to …