Our latest COVID-19 e-bulletin is now available, giving you information on how community food initiatives are coping in lock-down, news about research and advocacy and any challenges and concerns, as well as funding updates. You can access the e-bulletin here.
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E-bulletin: 3 April 2020
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COVID-19: Guidance for community food organisations
The Scottish Government Food Insecurity Team have provided guidance for community food initiatives (CFIs), which covers information on: How CFIs can help: the Scottish Welfare Fund and use of vouchers; staff, volunteer and service user safety; food supply; maintaining dignity whilst providing food aid; food safety; and details about how to contact this Scottish Government …
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COVID-19: General public health advice, resources and food safety
UPDATE: 17 April 2020. The Food Standards Agency recently produced guidance for Covid-19 guidance for food businesses and their employees. The UK government has also provided comprehensive advice for food businesses. NHS Forth Valley have produced a useful video on providing shopping to people in your community safely. For the most up to date health …
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CFHS e-bulletin: 19 March 2020
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Fare Choice 81
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E-bulletin : 20 February 2020
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Community Food and Health (Scotland) Communications & Social Media survey 2020
Please can you take 5 minutes of your time and complete our recent survey on communications and social media. It is simple to follow and will help inform our future work by measuring impact and effectiveness. Access the survey here Closing date Friday 13 March 2020. Many thanks.
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What do researchers talk about when they talk about cooking skills courses?
I was recently lucky enough to attend and present the results of our realist evaluation of cooking skills courses at a conference in Lisbon. This was the 3rd COOK and Health international conference and was attended by around 60 researchers, all of whom, like me, were enthusiastic about cooking skills. So what did we have …
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COVID-19: Scottish Government support for community food responses
UPDATE: 12 May 2020 Next round of funding from the Wellbeing Fund is now open to applications until 12 noon on 22 May 2020. UPDATE: 17 April 2020: Wellbeing Fund Community organisations looking for funding to support their food activities at this time should register an expression of interest to the Wellbeing Fund now. The …