Lyndsay Clark from the Feeding Fifers team tell us what they have learnt from putting cooking skills work online: Feeding Fifers now has their very own Face Book page! The …
CFHS updates
Guest Blog: Cooking skills online – learning from Feeding Fifers
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Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Covid-19 information and resources
Supporting your community to get the Covid-19 vaccine
The Screening and Immunisation Team in Public Health Scotland have provided an update about the process of getting the Covid-19 vaccine (8 February 2021): ‘We would like to update you …
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Area of Work: Covid-19 information and resources
January e-bulletin
Our latest COVID-19 e-bulletin is now available, giving you information on how community food initiatives are coping with the current lock-down. News about CFIs, research, funding and guidance updates. You …
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Areas of Work: Covid-19 information and resources, Information provision
Community food initiatives and the Covid-19 response
2020 has certainly been a challenging year for us all and community food initiatives have stepped up to respond to the needs of their communities. Over the last year we …
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Area of Work: Covid-19 information and resources
Winter support fund for children and families
Funding to help people pay for food, heating, warm clothing and shelter during the winter is part of a new £100m support package from the Scottish Government. The fund will …
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Area of Work: Covid-19 information and resources
Winter Social Wellbeing Fund (Glasgow)
Glasgow Health and Social Care Partnership has made funding available to local organisations, to enable them to support people who may be isolated over the winter months. The fund is …
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Area of Work: Covid-19 information and resources
#ShiftThePower Coronavirus Response Fund
Grants of up to £10,000 are available to help grassroots organisations in Scotland to support vulnerable individuals, families and communities, including coping with the impact of coronavirus.
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Area of Work: Covid-19 information and resources
Updates to National Lottery Community Funding in Scotland
”Our funds will mainly continue to operate as before. But we have made some changes to help make sure our funds better support people and communities through COVID-19. These changes …
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Areas of Work: Covid-19 information and resources, Funding
What’s in a name? – Redistributing surplus food via Food hubs, food banks, social supermarkets, larders, community fridges and pantries….. Does the label matter?
In this blog post, our colleague Jacqui McDowell gives her views about the variety of community food provision models using surplus food: Surplus food, emergency food aid and the pandemic …