CFHS updates

Second Helpings

This  CFHS national learning exchange on food, mental health and wellbeing was held on Wednesday March 5, 10.00 – 3.45 at Discovery Point in Dundee with a focus on self-evaluation …

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Supporting food and health work with adults with learning disabilities

We are currently making plans to develop part of our website to provide information about, and links to, quality accessible food and health resources or pictorial recipes.  These will be …

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Emergency food aid: learning from current experiences

Increasingly community food initiatives across Scotland are responding to demands for emergency food aid for those experiencing the most severe effects of food poverty.   The provision of emergency food parcels …

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Evaluation learning exchanges

We are offering organisations the opportunity to book a place for one of our Evaluation Learning Exchange days.  Each day will have a similar format, reflecting together and sharing learning …

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Investing in the availability of the new REHIS Elementary Cooking Skills course

CFHS has recently provided funding for 13 groups and agencies to run the new, nationally accredited cooking skills course (accredited by the Royal Environmental Health Insitute of Scotland or REHIS). Successful applicants …

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CFHS commission Cyrenians Good Food to adapt Good Food Handbook

We have recently commissioned the Cyrenians Good Food programme to adapt a selection of its Good Food Handbook recipes to support the availability of pictorial recipes.  These will be available …

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Plans for accessible food and health resources on our website

We are currently making plans to develop part of our website to provide information about, and links to, quality accessible food and health resources or pictorial recipes.  These will be …

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Growing Together – SRUC Oatridge Campus, West Lothian

This free joint event will give community growers, community retailers (including food co-ops, fruit and vegetable stalls and barras) and Food and Health Alliance members an opportunity to find out …

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New funding opportunities from CFHS

CFHS is providing support for a new, nationally accredited cooking skills course by offering funding of up to £750 to groups and agencies towards the costs of delivering this new …

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Development funding for work on maternal and infant nutrition across minority ethnic communities in Scotland

CFHS has a small amount of development funding available to support the development of good practice examples of work on maternal and infant nutrition across minority ethnic communities in Scotland. …

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