The Healthy Eating, Active Living action plan set out the intention to establish a handful of Healthy Weight Communities across Scotland. These pathfinder programmes will aim to prevent obesity and associated illnesses, with an emphasis on addressing health inequalities. The objective of the Healthy Weight Communities will be to demonstrate the ways in which gathering …
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Climate Challenge Fund workshops
The Energy Saving Scotland advice centre and the Sustainable Development Commission Scotland are hosting two free events to give community groups that opportunity to discover the Climate Challenge Fund and the organisations that can help them to realise their vision to become a low carbon community. The agenda for the events features speakers from Scottish …
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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 …
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Third Sector Enterprise Fund
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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Launch of the People’s Millions 2009
The People’s Millions programme is now open for applications. Since 2005, the BIG Lottery has teamed up with ITV to give away lottery funding to projects that will benefit local communities across the UK. A wide range of projects have been funded in the past including wildlife gardens, play areas, and community halls. This year …