Community food online peer session one: Building a more resilient community food sector: ensuring access to affordable, acceptable, sustainable and nutritious food. On 23rd September we ran our first community food online peer session. The aim was to provide an informal non-judgemental networking space for people working within the community food sector and those supporting …
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Our views about Good Food Nation
Our views about the proposed National Good Food Nation Plan About Good Food Nation The Good Food Nation Act (2022) Act places duties on Scottish Ministers, local authorities and health boards to produce Good Food Nation Plans. These Plans will set out the main outcomes to be achieved in relation to food-related issues, the policies …
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Pizza-making fun at Cook at the ‘Nook supports CFINE’s community work
Earlier this month, CFINE (Community Food Initiatives North East) welcomed a team from ETPM Ltd into its training kitchen, Cook at the ‘Nook, for a lively and delicious pizza-making night. The session, led by CFINE development worker and pizzaiolo Sean McVeigh, saw 13 staff from the energy sector recruitment company rolling dough, adding their favourite …
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Area of Work: Cookery skills
Edinburgh Community Food’s Cash First Journey: Developing and Launching the Cash First Toolkit
In this blog post, Chris Mantle tells us about Edinburgh Community Food (ECF)’s cash first journey. “One of the biggest challenges facing people in poverty is the stigma. Granting an individual the right to use cash or vouchers puts the individual in charge of what they spend the money on. But this is also about …
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Area of Work: Food poverty and access
Zero Waste Cooking Day
Martin Carle, Community Food Initiatives North East (CFINE)’s Sustainable Food Co-ordinator tells us about a cooking day: As part of the recent ‘Climate Week North East,’ CFINE and Granite City Good Food held a zero waste cooking day on the 20th March. The workshop invited members of the community to come along to Cook at …
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Area of Work: Cookery skills
Challenging poverty in Glasgow
Challenging poverty in Glasgow Challenge Poverty Week is coming up. (2 -8 October)2, which aims to challenge the injustice of poverty and show how collective action can help. One of its five policy asks is around food, ‘A Scotland where no-one goes hungry’. Many community food initiatives work in collaboration with others to address poverty. …
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Area of Work: Food poverty and access
Community food and local food partnerships
In this blog post we show how the community food sector is playing a role in the development of Sustainable Food Places (SFP) in Scotland and how SFP aims can contribute to plans for Scotland to become a Good Food Nation. The community food sector can play a key role in local collaborative work, and …
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Beyond food banks
The Scottish Government recently published Cash First: Towards Ending the Need for Food Banks in Scotland. In this blog post, we highlight a few examples of what community food initiatives are already doing to contribute to the actions in this Plan. Larger organisations such as Community Food Initiatives North East (CFINE) and Lanarkshire Community Food and …
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Area of Work: Food poverty and access
A move towards healthy and more environmentally sustainable diets
The Rowett Institute at the University of Aberdeen is conducting a study which will explore healthy and more environmentally sustainable diets in Scotland, focusing on the consumption of red meat with the aim to shift towards plant based foods. Here, the Rowett Institute explains the focus of the study planned for 2023. Cutting down on …
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Making good food accessible, enjoyable and relevant to communities
The Community and Voluntary sector plays a crucial role in shaping people’s health and wellbeing; not only through their services, but also by building social connections and engaging with people least likely to use statutory services. The sector’s key role is highlighted in the Population Health Framework . As well as fair funding, the sector …