Prevention is central to a range of Scottish Government policies, including the Population Health Framework, Cash-First: Towards Ending the need for Food Banks and will help us in Scotland to achieve a Good Food Nation. But what does prevention actually mean in practice? And what role does the community food sector play in delivering it? What does prevention mean? In …
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Good Food Scotland’s evolving Community Supermarket Model
About the Good Food Scotland (GFS) model I recently visited Threehills Community Supermarket and cafe, run by Good Food Scotland (GFS) in Nitshill. This post highlights GFS’s approach to the evolving social/community supermarket model and the use of donated food as well as GFS’s partnerships with local housing associations and links with the local community. …
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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 …
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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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How can you see where your work fits with prevention?
In the last blog we explained what prevention means for public health and for the community food sector. In this blog post we explain how it can be evaluated. Earlier this year, Evaluation Support Scotland (ESS) delivered a workshop for the community food sector on evaluating prevention. One of the key messages was that although …